Nate Brantly, B.S.

Nate received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2014. He subsequently completed a Whitaker International Program fellowship in the Musculoskeletal Modelling Group at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand before returning to Chicago to work as a Research & Development Engineer at Coapt, designer of a pattern recognition control system for arm prostheses. It was at Coapt that Nate rediscovered a passion for research, which led him to work as a Research Technician in the Bensmaia Lab at the University of Chicago while applying to graduate school. After a time in the Rehab Neural Engineering Labs at Pitt, Nate joined the Sensorimotor Learning Laboratory in April 2023 as a PhD student in the Bioengineering department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Nate is interested understanding impairments in the context specificity of motor learning in individuals who have had a stroke. He more broadly enjoys neuromuscular control of movements and electrophysiology, including EMG analysis. Outside of the lab, Nate enjoys reading, exercising, baseball, and music.