Nir is an Associate Professor at the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London and a founding fellow of the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK-DRI).

He received a BSc in Physics from the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), an MSc in Electromagnetic Engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and a PhD in Neuroscience from Imperial College London. He then completed a postdoc training as a Wellcome Trust Fellow with Ed Boyden at MIT and Alvaro Pascual Leone at Harvard.

Nir was awarded the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation for developing the Temporal Interference (TI) technology, which enables non-invasive electrical deep brain stimulation. At the UK-DRI, he is translating the TI brain stimulation technology into therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.

Key recent publications: Li et al., Nature Neuroscience 2025, Violante et al., Nature Neuroscience 2023; Rintoul et al., Nature Communications Physics 2023; Schreglmann et al., Nature Communications 2021; Grossman, Science 2018; Grossman et al., Cell 2017.