Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Max Rothwell for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled “Phase-dependent closed-loop modulation of beta-frequency network oscillations in Parkinsonian rats”, in his viva voce examination on 11th December 2020.

Max’s viva examiners were Dr Nicolas Mallet (University of Bordeaux, France) and Associate Professor Huiling Tan (NDCN, University of Oxford). The viva took place remotely via digital conferencing.

Max was supervised by Associate Professor Andrew Sharott and Dr Colin McNamara.