Angel V. Peterchev

Angel V. Peterchev received the A.B. degree in physics and engineering sciences from Harvard University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed post-doctoral training at Columbia University, and is presently Associate Professor at Duke University in the departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He directs the Brain Stimulation Engineering Lab which aims to improve noninvasive brain stimulation technology and paradigms such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electric stimulation (TES) based on insights from electrical engineering, biophysics, neuroscience, and psychiatry. Dr. Peterchev’s contributions span power electronic circuits for biomedical and energy applications, TMS devices with controllable pulse parameters, models and analysis of the spatial activation properties of TMS and TES, and rational dosing approaches based on in vivo studies exploring the relationship between stimulation parameters and physiological response.