Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Christoph Wiest for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled “Modulation of basal ganglia local field potentials by deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease and dystonia”, in his viva voce examination on 24th February 2023.

Christoph’s viva examiners were Professor Wolf-Julian Neumann (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) and Professor Tim Denison (University of Oxford).

Christoph was supervised at the MRC BNDU by Professor Huiling Tan, Associate Professor Andrew Sharott, Dr. Flavie Torrecillos, and Professor Peter Brown.