Team

Principal Investigators

Luka Milosevic, PhD

Scientist | Krembil Brain Institute
Ast. Professor | Inst. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
Luka Milosevic completed a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, after which he pursued a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tübingen, Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, Germany. He is currently a Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Member of the University of Toronto Institute of Medical Science, and Affiliate Scientist at the KITE Research Institute. His research interests include neuromodulation, brain-machine interfaces, and synaptic plasticity.

William D. Hutchison, PhD

Senior Scientist | Krembil Brain Institute
Professor | Dept. of Physiology, University of Toronto
William D. Hutchison completed a PhD in Pharmacology at the Australian National University. He pursed Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Würzburg, Germany, and at the University of Toronto. He is a Senior Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute, Full Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Physiology, and Affiliate Scientist at the KITE Research Institute. He is known for his pioneering work in human single neuron research and he is currently interested in neural substrates of cognition.

Lab Members

Maximilian Scherer, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow | PI: LM
DBS mechanisms & basal ganglia physiology.
Previous: PhD, University of Tübingen, Germany

Leon Amadeus Steiner, MD/PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow | PI: LM
DBS mechanisms & synaptic plasticity.
Previous: MD/PhD, Charité Berlin, Germany.

Srdjan Sumarac

PhD Candidate | PI: LM
Closed-loop DBS & biomarker identification.
Previous: BEng, Monash University, Australia.

Frhan Alanazi, MSc

PhD Candidate | PI: WDH
Cognitive processing in the basel ganglia.
Previous: MSc, University of Toronto, Canada

Dallas Leavitt

PhD Student | PI: LM
Non-motor features of Parkinson's disease.
Previous: BSc, University of Toronto, Canada.

Luis Antonio Franco

PhD Student | PI: LM
Biofeedback for Closed-loop DBS.
Previous: BEng, The Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico.

Kiah Alyssa Spencer

MASc Student | PI: LM
Basal ganglia physiology & synaptic plasticity.
Previous: BSc, University of Toronto, Canada.

David Crompton

MSc Student | PI: LM
Computational modelling.
Previous: BSc, University of Toronto, Canada.

Yijinmide Buren

MASc Student | PI: LM
DBS mechanisms and basal ganglia physiology.
Previous: BHSc, McMaster University, Canada.

Emily Haniff, RN

Research Assistant | PI: LM
Basal ganglia physiology & synaptic plasticity.
Previous: BNSc, Queen's University, Canada.

Tameem Al-Ozzi, MSc

Research Assistant | co-PI: LM
Substantia nigra physiology.
Current: University of Tübingen, Germany.

Luka Zivkovic

Research Assistant | PI: LM
Machine learning & signal processing.
Current: iBiomed, McMaster University, Canada.

Collaborators

Mojgan Hodaie

Functional Neurosurgery
Scientist - KBI
Professor - Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto

Suneil K. Kalia

Functional Neurosurgery
Scientist - KBI
Associate Professor - Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto

Andres M. Lozano

Functional Neurosurgery
Senior Scientist - KBI
Professor - Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto

Taufik A. Valiante

Functional Neurosurgery
Scientist - KBI
Associate Professor - Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto

Alfonso Fasano

Movements Disorders Neurology
Clinician Investigator - KBI Associate Professor - Division of Neurology, University of Toronto

Milad Lankarany

Computational Neuroscience
Scientist - KBI
Assistant Professor - Inst. of Biomedical Engineering, UToronto

Milos R. Popovic

Biomedical Engineering
Research Director - KITE
Professor - Inst. of Biomedical Engineering, UToronto

Robert E. W. Chen

Movements Disorders Neurology
Senior Scientist - KBI Associate Professor - Division of Neurology, University of Toronto

Nir Lipsman

Neurosurgery
Scientist - SRI
Associate Professor - Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto

Clement Hamani

Neurosurgery
Senior Scientist - SRI
Professor - Dept. of Surgery, University of Toronto

Jennifer S. Rabin

Neuropsychology
Scientist - SRI
Assistant Professor - Division of Neurology, University of Toronto

Sean M. Nestor

Psychiatry
Scientist - SRI
Assistant Professor - Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Alumni

  • Samantha Chau
  • Cindy Nguyen