Team

Lab Members

Luka Milosevic, PhD

Principal Investigator
Scientist - KBI
Ast. Professor - Inst. of Biomedical Engineering, UToronto

Maximilian Scherer, PhD

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

Leon Amadeus Steiner, MD, PhD

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

Srdjan Sumarac

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

Prerana Keerthi

PhD Student
Closed-loop DBS & biomarker identification
Previous: BEng, McMaster University, Canada.

Luis Antonio Franco

PhD Candidate
Closed-loop DBS & biomarker identification.
Previous: BEng, The Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico.

David Crompton

PhD Candidate
Computational modelling.
Previous: BSc, University of Toronto, Canada.

Dallas Leavitt

PhD Candidate
Non-motor features of Parkinson's disease.
Previous: BSc, University of Toronto, Canada.

Luka Zivkovic

PhD Student
DBS targeting & mapping optimizations.
Previous: iBiomed, McMaster University, Canada.

Filip Miščević

PhD Student
BCI devices for speech and audio perception.
Previous: MSc & BSc, University of Toronto, Canada.

Muhammad Shan Sohail

PhD Student
Optogenetics & Striatopallidal circuit.
Previous: BSc, Osaka University, Japan.

Yijinmide Buren

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

Claire Lipton

Research Assistant
Interoceptive physiology.
Current: BHSc, Queens University, Canada.

Reese Clinton

Research Assistant
Basil ganglia physiology.
Current: BSci, Queens University, Canada.

Tristan Lawson

Research Assistant
Computational Modelling.
Previous: BASc, Queens 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
  • Kiah Alyssa Spencer
  • Emily Haniff
  • Anna Popovic
  • Supreet Phangura
  • Camille Guerin