# Jingnan Du Postdoc Randy Buckner's Lab ![Photo of Jingnan Du](/sites/g/files/omnuum9601/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/psych/files/jingnan_du.jpg?itok=00hWI2nH) email laptop\_windows [The Buckner Laboratory](https://cnl.rc.fas.harvard.edu/) laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://jingnandu93.github.io/) Jingnan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Buckner lab, where he studies the functional organization of large-scale brain networks and their roles in higher-order cognition. His research focuses on the association cortex—regions of the brain that have undergone a disproportionate expansion during recent hominin evolution. By combining precision neuroimaging with novel computational approaches, he recently explored the detailed organization of individual brains and discovered a novel topographic feature of the association cortex: parallel networks arranged in side-by-side juxtapositions, repeating across multiple association zones. These repeated zones link to three “domain-specialized” networks supporting language, social inference, and spatial/episodic processing, as well as two “domain-general” frontoparietal networks underpinning cognitive control. In addition, he developed a new 15-network parcellation of the cerebral cortex, known as DU15NET, which is [publicly available](https://freesurfer.net/fswiki/CorticalParcellation_DU15NET). Before joining the Buckner lab as a postdoc, Jingnan completed his PhD at Fudan University and spent the final two years of his PhD studies as a visiting student in Dr. Randy Buckner’s lab at Harvard University. - ## Alphabetical Postdocs and Research Associates [A - E](/alphabetical-postdocs/e) - ## By Lab Postdocs and Research Associates [R. Buckner](/lab-postdocs-and-associates/r-buckner) - ## Role/Affiliation [Postdocs and Research Associates](/roleaffiliation/postdocs-and-research-associates)