Eberhard Erich Fetz | |
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Born | Zwenkau, Germany | February 5, 1940
Citizenship | American |
Occupation(s) | Neuroscientist, academic and researcher |
Awards | Sloan Research Fellow Humboldt Research Award New York Academy of Sciences and Aspen Brain Forum First Prize in Neurotechnology Fellow, AAAS |
Academic background | |
Education | B.S., Physics Ph.D., Physics |
Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Pyramidal Tract Effects on Spinal Cord Interneurons. |
Doctoral advisor | Patrick David Wall |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Washington |
Eberhard Erich Fetz (born February 5, 1940) is an American neuroscientist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and DXARTS at the University of Washington.[1]
Fetz has authored over 160 papers on experimental neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, and neural networks.[2] His research focuses on the neural control of limb movement in primates. He pioneered the recording of cortical and spinal neurons in behaving monkeys and the applications of bidirectional brain-computer interfaces.[3]
In 2020, Fetz was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Neuroscience.[4]