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    Dora Hermes, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Mayo Clinic

    Dora Hermes is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She did her graduate training at the UMC Utrecht in The Netherlands working in the lab of Prof. Nick Ramsey. Her PhD work focused on understanding the relation between functional MRI and field potentials in the human brain and quantifying to what extend fMRI can be used to localize an area to implant electrodes for brain-machine interfaces. Her thesis was called ‘The potential of half a million neurons. Studies with electrocorticography and functional MRI in motor and language areas’ (2012). For her postdoctoral training Dora Hermes applied these techniques to better understand visual processing at Stanford University and New York University. She received a Veni fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research to translate this work to better understand photosensitivity and epilepsy. Dr. Hermes’ current research focuses on understanding the mesoscale signals measured in the living human brain in order to identify biomarkers of neurological disease and develop neuroprosthetics to interface with the brain.

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