G. Andrew James, Ph.D., received bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and applied psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His graduate studies introduced him to functional neuroimaging, which perfectly fit his dual interests in analytical spectroscopy and human cognition. He received his doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Florida, where he used functional MRI to model age-related changes in networks governing motor learning. In 2006, he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with Xiaoping Hu, Ph.D., of Emory University, where he pursued a variety of methodologically challenging neuroimaging projects such as taste perception of artificial sweeteners, motor network reorganization following a stroke, and modeling individual differences in depressed patients’ emotion-regulating networks. In 2009, he joined the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. As an associate professor in the Brain Imaging Research Center, he is establishing the Cognitive Connectome to explore how the brain’s neural networks encode individual variability in personality and cognition. By understanding how the healthy brain encodes cognition, he seeks to translate this technology into patient care and better inform clinical decision-making.