Stelios Smirnakis is an associate neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

Smirnakis’s laboratory aims to understand the principles of neural circuit function and malfunction during disease states such as autism, epilepsy and stroke, with a particular focus on visual perception and motor learning. The laboratory uses tools ranging from two-photon imaging and optogenetics to classical electrophysiology and functional magnetic resonance imaging in mouse models and in individuals with injury-induced visual system deficits.