I read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, ending with Physiology and Neurosciences, and then completed a PhD on the control of the primate hand split between Cambridge and the Institute of Neurology, London. This began my interest in oscillatory activity in the primate motor system; my subsequent papers probed how oscillations seem to pass around a feedback loop from cortex to muscle and then back again via sensory pathways. More recently, I have become interested in sub-cortical systems like the spinal cord and brainstem, and how they can contribute to the control of movement in health and recovery from damage.
My work uses a wide range of methods, including non-invasive electrophysiological recordings from healthy human volunteers and patients with motor disorders, computer modelling and mathematical data analysis, and electrophysiology in macaque monkeys.
Experience
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2007–presentProfessor, Instiute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
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2003–2007Senior research fellow, Instiute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
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1999–2003Research fellow, Department of Anatomy, Cambridge
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1995–1999Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge
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1995–1998Research associate, Institute of Neurology, London
Education
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1995St John's College, Cambridge, PhD
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1992St John's College, Cambridge, BA/MA
Professional Memberships
- Society for Neuroscience
- The Physiological Society
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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