European Commission (Future and Emerging Technologies program) The CONNECT consortium brings together the very best among the European Union's world-leading diffusion MRI community with the aim to create definitive atlases of the brain connectivity for the healthy developing and adult brain that will serve as a long-lasting reference for the neuroscience and medical community. The completion of this project will fill a critical need for the comprehensive mapping of the connections and tissue microstructure of the human brain. The project is coordinated by Dr. Yaniv Assaf (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Daniel Alexander (UCL), and Prof. Derek K Jones (Cardiff University), and involves 12 research teams in 10 institutes across 7 countries. The sub-aim of the UCL team is in the design and implementation of microstructure imaging and analysis tools and their application to the direct mapping of tissue microstructure of the human brain.