Engineering Personnel
The Neurotechnology Core Facility is currently staffed by two scientists/engineers who split their time between offices located on the third floor of the Northwest Building (room 331) and the fabrication shop located on the forth basement floor (B401). Consultations are free to members of Harvard's Center for Brain Science and can be scheduled by e-mail or simply by stopping in.
Ed Soucy
Ed received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he examined the neural circuitry of the mouse retina while working in the laboratory of Prof. Markus Meister. His post-doctoral studies focused on the neural encoding of odorants in the olfactory bulbs of both mouse and rat. In pursuit of this research, he developed numerous electronic, optical, and software tools to allow for controlled stimulus presentation, physiological and optical data acquisition and analysis. Thanks to generosity of Prof. Howard Berg, he was fortunate to have access to a well equipped machine shop. In 2006, he began the Neurotechnology Facility with hopes of extending this opportunity to all Center for Brain Science members.
Yuwei Li
Yuwei is a highly trained mechanical engineer with a S.M. from MIT and a B.S.E. from University of Michigan. Her graduate work focused on computational simulation of dynamical systems. Yuwei also worked at the Device Realization Lab at MIT, studying human behavior and developing robotic haptic devices in virtual reality. Before joining the NTCore, she worked as an R&D engineer at Markforged where she developed novel technologies for additive manufacturing.