Nicolelis, Miguel

Miguel Nicolelis, M.D. Ph.D., is the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University and founder of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering. He is the author of "Beyond Boundaries". His award-winning research has been published in "Nature", "Science", and other leading scientific journals, as well as in "Scientific American", which named him one of the twenty most influential scientists in the world. A member of the French and Brazilian academies of sciences, he lives in North Carolina.