Robert Gaunt, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Pronouns: he/him/his
Dr. Gaunt is a researcher in the Rehab Neural Engineering Laboratory and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. His primary research interests are in the area of sensorimotor control, neurorehabilitation and neural prostheses. Specifically, this includes: 1) developing functional sensory feedback technologies for advanced neural prostheses, 2) understanding how somatosensory feedback is incorporated into ongoing motor behavior, 3) understanding how microstimulation in the spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia and cortex recruit neural tissue, and 4) developing methods to restore or improve bladder function after spinal cord injury using electrical stimulation of the spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
Research Interests: Neuroprosthetics, sensorimotor, neurophysiology, microstimultation, functional electrical stimulation, spinal cord injury, bladder dysfunction
Dr. Gaunt's publications are indexed in PubMed
Education & Training
- BEng, Mechanical Engineering with Distinction, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 2000
- PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2008
- Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of PM&R, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2010