Zachary Danziger

Prof. Danziger's research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying motor control, sensorimotor integration, and brain-machine interfaces. His work combines experimental neurophysiology with computational models to investigate how neural circuits encode and process movement-related information. Emphasis is placed on understanding neural population dynamics and developing technologies that interface with the nervous system to restore or augment motor function.

The effortlessness of moving your body belies the lurking complexity driving it. We are trying to understand how the nervous system makes something so complicated as controlling a human body feel so natural. We use human subjects studies, animal experiments, mathematical biology, and artificial intelligence to understand neural control of movement. New theories and insight promise advances in physical therapy, human-machine collaboration, brain-computer interfaces, neural modulation of peripheral reflexes, and more.