Theodore Milner

Theodore Milner visited ETH Zurich as guest Professor, where he worked as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow until April 2016. He was born in Winnipeg, Canada and received his B.Sc. in physics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Alberta in 1976, 1981 and 1984, respectively. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT from 1984-1986. His became an assistant professor in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the Université de Montréal in 1986 and moved to the School of Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in 1992 where he became full professor in 2002. Since 2008 he has been a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education and an associate member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University. He is also a member of the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University and a member of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation du Montréal metropolitain. His research is focused on sensorimotor function of the hand and integrated control of balance and voluntary movement. He is particularly interested in neural plasticity in the context of motor learning with application to rehabilitation of hand function after stroke. As well as conducting psychophysical studies of motor learning, he is investigating associated changes in functional connectivity in resting-state brain networks using fMRI.