Full Name
Claudia Cea
Job Title
Assistant Professor
Company
Yale University
Speaker Bio
Claudia Cea is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, where she leads the Brain–Body Bioelectronics Lab. Her research focuses on developing soft, flexible bioelectronic devices that interface with the nervous system and peripheral organs to monitor and modulate physiological activity. Dr. Cea received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where she developed soft neural interface technologies for monitoring brain activity associated with neurological disorders such as epilepsy. She then completed her postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she expanded this work to study communication between the brain and peripheral organs. During this time, she developed flexible bioelectronic probes to monitor neural activity from organs such as the gastrointestinal tract, enabling new approaches to investigate brain–body interactions and explore future bioelectronic therapeutic strategies. Her research has contributed to the development of the first fully flexible implantable bioelectronic systems composed entirely of soft, biocompatible components for sensing, signal processing, and wireless operation. She was recognized as one of the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 globally for her contributions to bioelectronics and neural interface technologies.
Claudia Cea