Beata Jarosiewicz, Ph.D.

Beata is an Investigator in the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh, where she characterized a novel sleep state in the rat in the laboratory of William Skaggs. She did a postdoc with Andy Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh, where she used neural interfaces in monkeys to study plasticity and the brain’s solution to the “credit assignment problem,” and then another postdoc with Mriganka Sur at MIT where she used two-photon imaging to characterize the tuning properties of distinct sets of projection neurons in the ferret visual system. She joined BrainGate in January 2010, where she is investigating whether and how neural plasticity can be exploited to improve the neural control of prosthetic devices.