Bio

I am an Instructor in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I additionally have an appointment as a Research Associate at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. My research aims to understand motor control and motor learning, not only in healthy individuals but, particularly, in patients with neurological disease that affects the motor system. I focus on motor impairment after stroke. I build tasks that probe different components of arm motor impairment, and examine how each component relates to post-stroke damage in different neuronal pathways. Before my current position, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where I (mainly) studied the motor symptoms of stroke and how they may relate to each other. I got my PhD also at Harvard, under professor Maurice Smith, where I studied how the motor system forms (and adjusts) memories of both what to expect in a given motor environment and what uncertainty there is about these expectations. My undergraduate degree was in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (ΕΜΠ). I grew up in Larnaca, Cyprus.