Dr Nir Grossman (principle investigator)

Dr Nir GrossmanNir 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. 

Science-Pins prize logo


Nir was awarded the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation (2018) for the development of the (TI) stimulation. 

Line break

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr Eddy Rhodes

Dr Eddy Rhodes

Dr Maria Garcia Garrido

Dr Maria Garcia Garrido

PhD students

Patrycja Dzialecka

Patrycja Dzialecka

Matteo Vinao-Carl

Matteo Vinao-Carl

Ketevan Alania

Ketevan Alania

Sofia Peressotti

Sofia Peressotti

Xiaoqi Zhu

Xiaoqi Zhu

Jean Rintoul

Jean Rintoul

Junheng Li

Junheng Li

Katharine Wiltshire

Katharine Wiltshire

Simon Williamson

Simon Williamson

Research Assistants

Kaarin Šabad

UKDRI

Kaarin Šabad

Affiliates

Dr Danielle Kurtin

UKDRI

Dr Danielle Kurtin

Dr Robert Peach

Dr Robert Peach

Dr Jonathon Howard

Dr Jonathon Howard

Alumni

Julia Borella

Julia Borella

Yuval Gal Shohet

Yuval Gal Shohet

Dr Charlotte Luff

Dr Charlotte Luff

Marcelina Wojewska

Marcelina Wojewska

Marianna Papageorgopoulou

Marianna Papageorgopoulou

Emanuele Panella

Emanuele Panella

Lok (Lukas) Fan

Lok (Lukas) Fan

Rifkat Zaydullin

Rifkat Zaydullin

Shuler Xu

Shuler Xu

Anastasia Ilina

Anastasia Ilina

Evelyn Martin

Evelyn Martin

Tatiana Georgiades

Tatiana Georgiades

General enquiries


Dr Nir Grossman
Senior Lecturer in Dementia Research and Group Leader at the UK DRI

nirg@imperial.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7594 6805