Nir is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London and a founding fellow of the UK Dementia Research Institute. He is also affiliated with Imperial’s Centre for Bioinspired Technology and Centre for Neurotechnology, MIT’s Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He develops neuromodulatory interventions for brain disorders by pioneering new tools and principles to impact the disease pathology via direct modulation of the underlying aberrant neural activity.

He received BSc in Physics from the Israeli Institute of Technology, MSc in Electromagnetic Engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and PhD in Neuroscience, from Imperial College London.