Boubker Zaaimi

Dr Boubker Zaaimi is a lecturer in neuroscience at Aston University. He has more than 15 years of experience in implanting electrodes in animal models of stroke or epilepsy, from rodents to non-human primates. The aim of his research is to understand human brain activity and how it relates to behaviour, and to modulate this activity through different techniques. He has been part of multiple projects involving brain machine interfaces, including a project at Northwestern University in Chicago, where the research team attempted to provide sensations back to a primate by stimulating its brain, to the CANDO project in Newcastle University where the researchers developed a closed loop protocol to boost or suppress brain activity in animals. Using magnetoencephalography at Aston University Dr Zaaimi is developing this technique to record and modulate brain activity in humans.