Andrew Jackson received the M.Phys. degree in physics from Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from University College, London U.K., in 2002. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.,His scientific interests include the neural mechanisms of motor control, cortical plasticity and spinal cord physiology. This basic research informs the development of neural prosthetics technology to restore motor function to the injured nervous system.,Dr. Jackson is a graduate member of the Institute of Physics and a member of the Society for Neuroscience.