John Rothwell Award Winner 2024: Professor Angel Peterchev
We are delighted to announce that Professor Angel Peterchev has been awarded the Brainbox Initiative John Rothwell Award 2024 for his extensive contributions to non-invasive brain stimulation research.
Professor Angel Peterchev received undergraduate training at Harvard University in Physics and Engineering Sciences. He then received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2005, with a graduate-level minor in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley.
While there, he contributed to a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) project which led him to obtain post-doctoral training in TMS and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) at the Psychiatry Department of Columbia University. He stayed on at Columbia as junior faculty before being recruited to Duke University, where he is currently Professor with Tenure with appointments in the School of Medicine and the Pratt School of Engineering. He also directs the Brain Stimulation Engineering Lab at Duke.
Prof Angel Peterchev’s research falls in three categories: device development, computational modelling, and experimental studies of mechanisms and dosing.
Amongst his notable contributions to the field are inventions of tools for cTMS and qTMS, as well as significant help in the development of other tools for advanced TMS. He has authored over a hundred of peer-reviewed publications which have been cited thousands of times, generating invaluable knowledge which has helped develop rationally-designed non-invasive brain stimulation studies and therapeutic interventions.
Professor Peterchev joined us at the Brainbox Initiative Conference 2024. During his talk, he presented us with insights into his career - how his journey into Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation started from studying electrical engineering. We’d like to once again congratulate Professor Angel Peterchev for winning the John Rothwell Award 2024 and thank him for his invaluable contributions to the field.
The John Rothwell Award, launched in 2021, was established to recognise and reward some of the very best contributions being made in non-invasive brain stimulation research by mid-career neuroscientists around the world. The winner of the award, selected each year by Professor John Rothwell, is invited to join us at the Brainbox Initiative Conference to provide some fascinating insights into their ongoing work in the field.