Josh van Kleef is a Senior Research Fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in the Maddess Laboratory. He is a neurobiologist and neuroethologist who uses engineering techniques to study and control neural systems. His current research focuses on leveraging pupil responses of the human eye to develop non-contact medical devices that automatically detect signs of neuro-ophthalmic disease and allow direct communication between computers and the brain (BCI). He is also developing insect sensor networks based on biohybrid microrobots. He held postdoctoral positions in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed neural interfaces for the wireless control of flying insects, and, the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University, where he studied visual flight control in Dragonflies.

BSc (USyd) BSc Hons I (UNSW) PhD (ANU)

Neural engineering

Pupil-based biomedical devices and brain machine interfaces

Insect neural interfaces for neuroethology and microrobotics