Peter Janssen is a professor of neurophysiology at KU Leuven, where he leads the Research Group Neurophysiology in the Department of Neurosciences. He received his MD and master's degree in psychology from KU Leuven in 1996 and his PhD in 2000. From 2001 to 2003, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he worked with Michael Shadlen on neural representations of timing and expectation in the primate parietal cortex. He returned to KU Leuven in 2003 to establish his own research group and became head of the Department of Neurosciences in 2016.

Janssen's research examines visual and visuomotor processing in the primate brain, particularly three-dimensional object vision, grasping, and interactions between the dorsal and ventral visual streams. His group uses electrophysiology, electrical microstimulation, reversible inactivation, neuroimaging, and brain-machine interfaces in human and nonhuman primates. In recent years, a major focus of his research has been the development of high-resolution cortical visual prostheses, including high-density electrical stimulation and flexible electrode arrays designed to stimulate larger regions of visual cortex. He is currently involved in efforts to translate these technologies toward first-in-human testing.

Experience

• Co-Founder (2019 - present)

  ReVision Implant

• Professor (2003 - present)

  Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology

  Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2001 - 2003)

  University of Washington

Education

• PhD, Neuroscience (1996 - 2000)

  Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven

• MD (1989 - 1996)

  Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven