Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Saed Khawaldeh for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled “Subthalamic nucleus bursting dynamics and prediction of motor measures using machine learning”, in his viva voce examination on 14th October 2021.

Saed’s viva examiners were Professor Simon Little (University of California San Francisco, USA) and Professor Kia Nobre (University of Oxford). The viva took place remotely via digital conferencing.

Saed was supervised by Professor Peter Brown (MRC BNDU) and Professor Mark Woolrich (Psychiatry).