Team

Dr Nir Grossman (principle investigator)

Dr Nir Grossman Nir Grossman is a Lecturer in the Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and a founding fellow of the UK Dementia Research Institute centre at Imperial College London. He is also affiliated with Imperial’s Centre for Bioinspired Technology and Centre for Neurotechnology, and MIT’s Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Nir leads the Interventional Systems Neuroscience Lab, which develops tools and principles to treat neurodegenerative disorders via direct control of the aberrant neural activity that underpins the diseases.

Nir received a BSc in physics from the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), an MSc in electromagnetic engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and a PhD in neuroscience from Imperial College London, where he developed the foundations of an optogenetic retinal prosthesis for blind patients with retinal degeneration.

He then completed a postdoctoral training as a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Enterprise Fellow in Chris Toumazou’s lab at the Centre for Bioinspired Technology at Imperial, and then as a Wellcome Trust Fellow in Ed Boyden’s lab at the Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, at MIT, and in Alvaro Pascual-Leone’s lab at the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, at Harvard University. During this period, Nir developed a strategy for stimulating deep brain structures non-invasively via temporal interference (TI) of kHz electric fields.