Jacob Hooker

Dr. Hooker is currently Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport MGH Research Scholar. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Dr. Hooker then completed two fellowships—a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship and a Ruth Kirschstein Fellowship—at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he maintained an appointment as an Associate Scientist through 2013. In 2009, Dr. Hooker moved to Boston to join the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. There he co-founded and co-directs a first-in-class imaging facility that merges functional MRI and positron emission tomography for neurochemical study of the human brain. Dr. Hooker served as Associate Editor of ACS Chemical Neuroscience from 2013 before being named interim editor-in-chief in late 2020. Further information on Dr. Hooker and his research can be found on the Martinos Center Chemical Neuroscience Program website.