Andrew Jackson is Professor of Neural Interfaces and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University. His research uses electrophysiological techniques in animals, healthy volunteers and patients to ask fundamental neuroscience questions around motor control, learning, sleep and oscillatory brain dynamics. This basic research informs our development of closed-loop neural interface technologies for the brain, spinal cord and muscles, with applications in the treatment of stroke, spinal cord injury and epilepsy. His research is funded by Wellcome, MRC and EPSRC.