Johan Wessberg received the M.D. and Ph.D. degree in physiology from the University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in physiology at the University of Gothenburg. His laboratory is interested in the peripheral and central nervous system mechanisms of the human sense of touch, which is investigated using a combination of peripheral nerve recording from tactile receptors and functional brain imaging. During 1999 to 2000, he was a Research Associate at Duke University, Durham, NC, in the laboratory of Prof. Miguel Nicolelis, where he worked on a brain-machine interface which allowed monkeys to control a robot arm using chronically recorded nerve cell activity from the brain. An important line of research in his current laboratory is the novel application of machine learning techniques to study patterns of human brain activity.