Nathalia Peixoto is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University (GMU). She received her MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Campinas (1996) and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (2001). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Krasnow Institute, focusing on seizure control with low frequency electric fields, and developed microfabricated oxygen sensors to profile metabolic activity in cardiac cells at Stanford. Her research interests include implantable electrodes and systems, hybrid systems (cell cultures and electronics), control of assistive technology, bioMEMS (bio-micro-electro-mechanical systems), and experimental models of neuropathologies such as epilepsy and spreading depression.