Aleksandra Vuckovic

Aleksandra Vuckovic is a Professor of Neurotechnologies and Rehabilitation Engineering at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is also a  Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Innovation in Spinal Cord Injuries and a Deputy Director of the Centre for Neurotechnology at the University of Glasgow. 

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She studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and holds PhD in Healthcare Technologies from the Aalborg University, Denmark. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK.

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Her research interests are in  Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), as a new form of non-muscular channel for communication between patients and its environment, which compensates a loss of sensory-motor functions or alternatively provides strengthening or modulation of preserved neuro-muscular pathways in patients with impairments of the Central Nervous System. She is in particular interested in BCI for treatment of chronic pain (neurofeeedback) and BCI for motor rehabilitation.