Dr. Taufik Valiante is a staff Neurosurgeon and Senior Scientist at Toronto Western Hospital, Krembil Brain Institute and a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. In addition to his specialization in epilepsy surgery, Dr. Valiante is an expert in minimally invasive spine surgery, and cranial neurosurgery. Dr. Valiante’s vision is to build next generation devices to interrogate and modulate brain activity for treatment of neuropsychiatric conditions. Dr. Valiante’s research leverages access to the human brain through surgical treatment to enable research that spans from single neuron biophysics to the collective behaviour of billions of neurons underlying human cognition. 

Dr. Valiante has also notably established the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre (MPUTC) for Neural Science and Technology, the Centre for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA), and the CRANIA Neuromodulation Institute (CNMI). These important entities drive the intersectionality of non-traditional scientific fields of medicine, engineering, and computational neuroscience working together to advance our knowledge and discovery potential that spans from the neuron to the whole brain.