Academic Faculty and Research Fellows

• Prof. Dario Farina

  

  Personal details

  Prof. Dario Farina Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering

  Send email

  Affiliations

  Neuromechanics and Rehabilitation Technology  (Lab/Group Leader)

  Centre for Neurotechnology

  Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Technology Network

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

Research Associates

• Dr Alejandro Pascual Valdunciel

  

  Personal details

  Dr Alejandro Pascual Valdunciel Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  SERG Tremor Project, Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr. Alessandro Del Vecchio

  

  Personal details

  Dr. Alessandro Del Vecchio Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  Motor unit physiology with translational activities

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr Aritra Kundu

  

  Personal details

  Dr Aritra Kundu Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  Neurorehab researcher for the EPSRC funded NISNEM project. Working on electrode design, animal experiments, modelling and algorithm development. The project, with the help of partner labs at ICL, aims to develop an ultra-high-density, non-invasive interface and novel algorithms to discern single neuron activity.

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Ciaran McGeady

  

  Personal details

  Ciaran McGeady Research Associate

  Send email

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr. Deren Barsakcioglu

  

  Personal details

  Dr. Deren Barsakcioglu Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  INTERSPINE: Non-Invasive, General-Purpose Interfacing With Human Spinal Motor Neurons

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr Hsien-Yung Huang

  

  Personal details

  Dr Hsien-Yung Huang Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  NIMA

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr. Ivan Vujaklija

  

  Personal details

  Dr. Ivan Vujaklija Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  Upper-limb prosthesis control

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr Jaime Ibanez Pereda

  

  Personal details

  Dr Jaime Ibanez Pereda Honorary Research Fellow

  Send email

  Projects

  Natural Bionics

• Dr Jumpei Kashiwakura

  

  Personal details

  Dr Jumpei Kashiwakura Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  Natural Bionics

• Dr Rejin Varghese

  

  Personal details

  Dr Rejin Varghese Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  EPSRC NISNEM (Soft-Exosuits) and ERC U-WEAR (wearable motion-capture system)

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr. Silvia Muceli

  

  Personal details

  Dr. Silvia Muceli Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  EXTEND: Bidirectional Hyper-Connected Neural System
  INPUT: Intuitive Natural Prosthesis Utilization

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr Simon Avrillon

  

  Personal details

  Dr Simon Avrillon Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  BBSRC Neural Commands for Fast Movements in the Primate Motor System

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr Simos Koutsoftidis

  

  Personal details

  Dr Simos Koutsoftidis Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  Eurobench, MyolinkV3 (a part of NISNEM), EMG ASIC (main core of my PhD), Closed-loop stimulator for tremor suppression

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dr Tianyi Yu

  

  Personal details

  Dr Tianyi Yu Research Associate

  Send email

  Projects

  NISNEM

PhD Students and Research Assistants

• Agnese Grison

  

  Personal details

  Agnese Grison Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Neural interfaces, Subcutaneous high-density electrode arrays to connect to the human spinal cord

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Arnault Caillet

  

  Personal details

  Arnault Caillet Research Assistant

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Balint Hodossy

  

  Personal details

  Balint Hodossy Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Intent-driven Gait Synthesis for Simulated Assistive Technology

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Bruno Grandi Sgambato

  

  Personal details

  Bruno Grandi Sgambato Research Assistant

  Send email

  Projects

  Ultrasound peripheral interface and in-vitro model of human somatosensory system and muscles for motor decoding and restoration of somatic sensations in amputees

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Dimitrios Chalatsis

  

  Personal details

  Dimitrios Chalatsis Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Emanuele Abbagnano

  

  Personal details

  Emanuele Abbagnano Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Emma R M Lubel

  

  Personal details

  Emma R M Lubel Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Human machine interfacing using ultrasound

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Halla Hakami

  

  Personal details

  Halla Hakami Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Biomechanical Analysis of Body Movements of Myoelectric Prosthesis Users During Standardised Clinical Tests

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Hristo Dimitrov

  

  Personal details

  Hristo Dimitrov PhD Student

  Send email

  Projects

  A multi-sensor, hybrid model- and signal-based control system for powered lower limb prostheses

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Hristo Dimitrov

  

  Personal details

  Hristo Dimitrov Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  A multi-sensor, hybrid model- and signal-based control system for powered lower limb prostheses

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Irene Mendez Guerra

  

  Personal details

  Irene Mendez Guerra Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Wearable surface electromyographic systems for neural interfacing

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Jiatong Jiang

  

  Personal details

  Jiatong Jiang Research Assistant

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Joao Pereira

  

  Personal details

  Joao Pereira Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Closed-loop brain stimulation for induction of targeted functional brain plasticity in neurological patients

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Johanna Happold

  

  Personal details

  Johanna Happold Taught Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Neural Oscillations Underlying the Generation of Movement

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Kourosh S Kamali

  

  Personal details

  Kourosh S Kamali Research Assistant

  Send email

  Projects

  Wearable Stroke Rehabilitation Band 

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Laura Ferrante

  

  Personal details

  Laura Ferrante Research Assistant

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Manasavee Yimyam

  

  Personal details

  Manasavee Yimyam Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Neural interfacing by decoding spinal motoneuron activities in SCI patients

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Mario Bracklein

  

  Personal details

  Mario Bracklein PhD Student

  Send email

  Projects

  Controlling redundant robotic systems with spinal motor neurons

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Megan Hutchings

  

  Personal details

  Megan Hutchings Megan Hutchings

  Send email

  Projects

  Severe stroke rehabilitation using AI

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Milia Hasbani

  

  Personal details

  Milia Hasbani PhD Student

  Send email

  Projects

  Integrating computer vision with neural interfacing for semi-autonomous control of robotic limbs

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Patrick G Sagastegui Alva

  

  Personal details

  Patrick G Sagastegui Alva Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Sensory feedback for advanced prosthesis interfacing

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Peter Bryan

  

  Personal details

  Peter Bryan Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Rita Kharboush

  

  Personal details

  Rita Kharboush Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Sensory feedback via spinal cord stimulation for upper-limb prosthetic users

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Shibo Jing

  

  Personal details

  Shibo Jing Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Locomotion Intention Recognition and Lower limb Exoskeleton control using High-density EMG

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Shihan Ma

  

  Personal details

  Shihan Ma Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Surface electromyography (sEMG) modelling

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Shloak M Mehta

  

  Personal details

  Shloak M Mehta Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  The Sergtech Tremor project, lower limb sensation project

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Visva Moorthy

  

  Personal details

  Visva Moorthy Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  TBC

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

CDT MRes Students

• Agnese Grison

  

  Personal details

  Agnese Grison Research Postgraduate

  Send email

  Projects

  Neural interfaces, Subcutaneous high-density electrode arrays to connect to the human spinal cord

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sir Michael Uren Hub
  White City Campus

• Irene Mendez Guerra

  

  Personal details

  Irene Mendez Guerra MRes

  Send email

  Projects

  Surface electromyography for brain-machine applications

  Location

  4th Floor
  Sherfield Building
  South Kensington Campus