Surjo R. Soekadar

Surjo Raphael Soekadar (born July 4, 1977 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German physician, neuroscientist and development aid worker.

[1] Surjo Soekadar has been involved for many years in the field of development cooperation dealing with establishing youth health centers in Africa, South America and Asia.

In 2016, he and his team enabled quadriplegic patients with complete finger paralysis to eat and drink independently using a non-invasive brain/neural hand exoskeleton.

[3] In 2019, he demonstrated the feasibility of record the Bereitschaftspotential (or "readiness potential", a brain signal with an intensity of a few millionths of a volt that precedes voluntary movements by up to 1.5 seconds) outside the lab and under extreme conditions, namely before 192-meter bungee jumping.

It is expected that this new method will greatly contribute to a better understanding of electrical brain stimulation's clinical success and to solving various fundamental research questions in neuroscience.