 | Daniel Wolpert qualified as a medical doctor in 1989. He joined John Stein's group in the Physiology Department of Oxford University where he received his D.Phil. in 1992. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT in Mike Jordan's group. He joined the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology as a Lecturer in 1995, and in 2005 moved to the University of Cambridge as Professor of Engineering (1875). He is a fellow of Trinity College.
He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004 and was awarded the Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture (2005), the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award (2010) and gave the Fred Kavli Distinguished International Scientist Lecture at the Society for Neuroscience (2009).
A copy of his CV can be found here tel: +44 (0) 1223 748 530 fax: +44 (0) 1223 332 662 e-mail: wolpert@eng.cam.ac.uk Office: room BE4-42, directions can be found here |
Research Associates
 | Michael Dimitriou undertook his PhD at Umeĺ University in Sweden, looking into the signals of muscle sensory receptors during manual tasks. His interests include the study of how sensory information helps refine control mechanisms and how human movement adapts to different contexts. He is currently investigating the task-specific modulation of motor control. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48515, md559@cam.ac.uk |
 | David Franklin worked as a researcher in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience which is part of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratories at ATR. He is interested in how we are able to develop models of the external world and use these to adapt our movements to new experiences. He is currently studying the adaptation of humans to novel force fields generated with a 2 degree-of-freedom robotic manipulandum. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48516 dwf25@cam.ac.uk David's Homepage |
 | Ian Howard studied Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL and received his PhD in speech processing in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics. Following a short postdoc, he spent some time in industry. In Daniel's lab, he develops robotic interfaces to investigate the motor control of human arm movements. In addition, current research is focussing on the effect of context in motor learning and the formation of motor memories. Contact: Tel +44 (0)1223 748520, ish22@cam.ac.uk Ian's Homepage, Cambridge Neuroscience Profile |
 | James Ingram received a B.Sc.(Hons.) in physiology from the University of Melbourne in 1997. He joined the group in March 2000 and began a research doctorate in October 2006. His technical interests include the development of virtual reality systems for use in the study of human movement. His research interests include the use of wearable motion tracking systems for the collection of natural movement datasets and the application of dynamic learning paradigms to questions regarding object manipulation. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48514, jni20@cam.ac.uk James' Cambridge Neuroscience Profile |
 | Gergo Orbán joined the group in May 2010 as a Marie Curie Fellow, having previously worked in the Computational Neuroscience Lab of Peter Erdi at the Eotvos University, with Eors Szathmary at Collegium Budapest and with Jozsef Fiser at the Volen Center, Brandeis University. He is interested in the computational principles governing the learning of the elaborate statistics of environmental stimuli and how the acquired knowledge is exploited in planning motor behaviour. He is currently investigating optimal eye movement planning. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48506, go223@cam.ac.uk Gergo's Homepage |
Research Assistant
 | Sae Franklin became a research assistant in the group in November 2010. She previously worked as a researcher examining human face movement at the ATR Human Information Science Laboratories. She is currently studying the mechanisms of motor learning by observing changes in trajectories, force, endpoint stiffness and muscle activity during reaching movements and interactions with objects. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48512, sf394@cam.ac.uk |
PhD Students
 | Diana Burk received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience from the University of Virginia. She is a Janelia Graduate Scholar and started her PhD in October 2011. She is currently studying motor control with regard to how humans act in real time on streams of noisy evidence. Her research applies the framework of bounded-evidence accumulation to optimal feedback control theory. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)7530 5 36088, db548@cam.ac.uk |
 | Edward Turnham received a B.A. in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 2007. He is on the Cambridge MB/PhD programme and started his PhD in October 2008. He studies the processes of motor learning by which we become able to walk, ride bicycles and speak. His research uses the paradigm of visuomotor adaptation, in which the relationship between the felt and seen positions of the hand is altered using virtual reality, and the subjects' adaptation processes observed. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48511, ejat3@cam.ac.uk |
MPhil Student
 | Mohammad Ghassemi graduated with honours from New Mexico State University. He holds Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics as well as a minor in Computer Science. His project aims to understand how the brain constructs internal representations of the world, and particularly faces. Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48512, mg524@cam.ac.uk |
Administration
 | Diane Unwin is the CBL administrator. She has 8 years of scientific/academic administrative experience and has a diploma in Business Administration. Diane joined CBL in 2008 after the closure of the Section for Earth Observation at the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood where Diane provided administrative support. Contact (9am-2pm): Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 48529, dsu21@cam.ac.uk |
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