Dr. Aleksandra Vuckovic

Biography

Aleksandra Vuckovic holds an MEng in Engineering Physics and an MSc in Control Systems from the University of Belgrade. She completed her Ph.D. at the Centre for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Denmark in 2004 and has since served in various academic and research roles. She has held positions as a Senior Research Officer in the Brain-Computer Interface Group at the University of Essex from 2005 to 2007 and has been a member of the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow since 2008. Vuckovic became a member of the Higher Education Academy in 2009, a Chartered Engineer in 2016, and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2021. She has also served as Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Innovation in Spinal Cord Injury and has actively contributed to the International Brain-Computer Interface Society and the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society. Her research primarily focuses on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) and their applications in neurorehabilitation, particularly for patients with impairments of the Central Nervous System. She is interested in developing patient-managed BCI systems for home-based rehabilitation and improving existing therapies via BCI and Functional Electrical Stimulation. Additionally, her work applies machine learning to develop individualized pain management strategies.

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