Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/amit-n-pujari/

Associate Professor Pujari is a biomedical engineer and a neuroscientist with over 15 years of experience in medical device development and Neurorehabilitation engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor (Reader) of Biomedical Engineering at University of Hertfordshire, where he leads the Neu(RAL)²: NeuRAL Systems & Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Laboratory. He is also currently a Royal Academy of (RAEng) Industrial Fellow, having recently completed his RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, both (fellowships) working on developing novel noninvasive devices for stroke and spinal injury recovery/rehabilitation.

Alongwith current and recent prestigious fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering, A/Prof Pujari is also a recepient number of other prestigious awards and recognitions including travelling fellowships from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009) and Winston Churchil Memorial Trust (2017), British Science Association's award lecture (2022), being recognised as one of the top 25 emerging leaders in the UK Healthcare Research by the Academy of Medical Sciences (2023) and being selected as an inaugural member of the UK Young Academy.

Having worked in Healthcare (NHS) as a Clinical Scientist/Engineer, Industry (as a Biomedical Engineer), and Academia, across different countries, A/Prof Pujari has acquired unique and diverse background. He has studied, worked and collaborated with some of the world's top institutions in biomedical engineering/neuroscience, including Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Leeds, and Alberta.

A/Prof Pujari is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and Member of the UK Young Academy. His mission is to apply his engineering and neuroscience skills to improve the quality of life and mobility of people with disabilities and chronic conditions.

His Orcid ID profile can be accessed here and LinkedIn profile can be accessed here.

Neu(RAL)² is well equipped for Neurorehabilitation Engineering research with the state of the art equipment.

Lab includes: High density EMG system (TMSi), traditional EMG system (Delsys), Peripheral nerve stimulation system (Digitimer), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (MagVenture), Cambridge electronics (CED) Hardware (Micro 1401 amplifier) + Software (Spike2 and Signal), custom designed and developed vibrotactile stimulation devices for the upper and lower limbs (whole body vibration) and specific muscles (wearable devices).

A/Prof Pujari's current research is in the area of optimising the use of neuromodulatory stimuli (vibrotactile, electrical) for muscle strengthening and rehabilitation applications, both in the healthy population and in the population with stroke and spinal cord injury. He uses various neurophysiological tools (high density EMG, Transcranial and peripheral nerve stimulation) and engineering tools (sensors and advanced signal processing methods) to understand the neurophysiolgical basis of neuromodulatory stimuli so that this improved understanding can be employed to develop effective assistive and rehabilitation device(s) and exercise(s).

* Biomedical Sensors and Actuators for Medical Devies, i.e. Medical Instrumentation

* Electrophysiology- EMG, EEG

* Medical Devices Standards and Regulations