Cara Ravasio

Cara is a Biomedical Engineering PhD Candidate in Dr. Xue Han’s Lab. She began her PhD in 2020, and is a 2020 NSF graduate Research Fellow. Cara received her BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2020 and her MS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2023. Her research utilizes cutting edge single-cell […]

Leo Steiner

I became involved in neurophotonics through rotating with neural engineering faculty, and landed in the Han Lab, where we use optogenetics to study the brain. I received my bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My thesis will focus on novel methods for improving the effects of DBS for treating Parkinson’s Disease. I expect to […]

Samuel Zhou

Sam is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering. He completed his BS in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University in 2021. During his undergraduate studies, he developed an imaging device for real-time functional measurements of 3D printed kidney tissue at the Wyss Institute, before joining Dr. Xue Han’s lab where he studied deep brain stimulation. He joined […]