Nicholas Opie
Professor Nicholas Opie BE BSc PhD MBA is a biomedical engineer and world expert in neural interfaces. He is Professor and Laboratory Head of the Vascular Bionics Laboratory, Dept. Med, University of Melbourne, a laboratory aimed at developing novel medical bionics for people with neurological disorders. He is also a founding director of Synchron Inc and designed their flagship product the Stentrode, a brain computer interface that enables people with severe paralysis to control computers with their minds.