Lab Director
Sara J Hussain, Ph.D.
Contact: sara.hussain@austin.utexas.edu
Sara Hussain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She received both her B.S. (Integrative Physiology, 2011) and Ph.D. (Human Physiology, 2016) from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. After her Ph.D., she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke Neurorehabilitation Section within the National Institute of Neurological Disorders a in Bethesda, MD. Hussain’s expertise relates to identification and real-time targeting of brain activity patterns supporting voluntary human movement. She is currently applying this expertise to better understand the mechanisms of human motor learning and design novel interventions to restore motor function poststroke. Dr. Hussain is originally from the Chicago area, and outside of the lab she enjoys cooking, reading, birdwatching, and spending time with her husband and son.