{"id":5323,"date":"2023-01-20T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5323"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:45:58","slug":"leo-steiner","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/profile\/leo-steiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Steiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I became involved in neurophotonics through\u00a0rotating with neural engineering faculty, and landed in the Han Lab, where we use optogenetics to study the brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I received my bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My thesis will focus on novel methods for improving the effects\u00a0of DBS for treating Parkinson&#8217;s Disease. I expect to graduate in spring 2026. My PI is Xue Han, in BME, found here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hanlab\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hanlab\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1674333076108000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ehBUo4CbouNhBdNwWrgYU\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hanlab\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21016,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5323\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}