Rehabilitation and Neural Engineering Laboratory

Genis Prat Ortega, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Associate

I received my PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona supervised by Alex Roxin and Jaime de la Rocha. For my PhD thesis, I studied the underlying mechanisms of perceptual decision making. I used biophysical models to make experimentally testable predictions and I tested them with MEG experiments in the group of Tobias Donner at the UKE-Hamburg. After a break to travel by bike from Turin to Athens, I joined the RNELabs as a postdoctoral associate.

Research Interest Summary

Computational neuroscience, perceptual decision making, spinal cord injury, neurorehabilitation. 

Research Interests

I am interested in understanding how we can use spinal cord stimulation to help patients with spinal cord injury or other neurological disorders. I use biophysical models to understand the effect of the stimulation in different pathological spinal cords. The results of these models will help us to produce better stimulation protocols to restore lost motor function.