Alkis Hadjiosif

Alkis Hadjiosif joined BLAM in December 2015 as a postdoctoral fellow.

Alkis received his undergraduate degree in 2008 from the National Technical University of Athens (Electrical and Computer Engineering), after which he moved to Harvard University. There, he worked under the supervision of Professor Maurice Smith, obtaining an MSc in 2011 and completing his PhD in 2015.

His research focuses on the mechanisms for the acquisition and retention of motor memories and skills in both healthy individuals and patients with neurological disease, especially stroke. Alkis’s goal is to leverage insights about these mechanisms to benefit assessment and rehabilitation of neurological disease.

Journal publications / Refereed conference proceedings:

Hadjiosif, A.M.*, Branscheidt, M.*, Anaya, M.A., Runnalls, K.D., Keller, J., Bastian, A.J., Celnik, P.A., Krakauer, J.W. Dissociation between abnormal motor synergies and impaired reaching
dexterity after stroke. Journal of Neurophysiology 127: 856–868, February 2, 2022.

Hadjiosif, A.M., Krakauer, J.W., and Haith, A.M. Did we get sensorimotor adaptation wrong? Implicit adaptation as direct policy updating rather than forward-model-based learning. Journal of Neuroscience 41(12):2747-2761, March 24, 2021.

Albert, S.T., Hadjiosif, A.M., Jang, J., Zimnik, A.J., Soteropoulos, D.S., Baker, S.N., Churchland, M.M., Krakauer, J.W., and Shadmehr, R. Postural control of arm and fingers through integration of movement commands eLife 9: e52507, February 11, 2020.

Hadjiosif, A.M. and Krakauer, J.W. The explicit/implicit distinction in studies of visuomotor learning: conceptual and methodological pitfalls. European Journal of Neuroscience 2020; 00: 1- 5. (link)

Krakauer, J.W., Hadjiosif, A.M., Xu, J., Wong, A.L., and Haith, A.M. Motor Learning. Comprehensive Physiology 9, pp.613-663, March 14, 2019.

Hadjiosif, A.M. and Smith, M.A. Flexible control of safety margins for action based on internal estimates of environmental variability. Journal of Neuroscience 35(24): 9106-9121, June 17, 2015. (pdf)

Gonzalez-Castro, L.N.*, Hadjiosif, A.M.*, Hemphill, M. A. and Smith, M.A. Environmental consistency determines the rate of motor adaptation. Current Biology 24, 1-12, May 19, 2014. (pdf)

Hadjiosif, A.M., Criscimagna-Hemminger, S.E., Gibo, T.L. and Smith, M.A. Cerebellar damage reduces the stability of motor memories. Translational and Computational Motor Control, Washington, D.C., November 2014. (pdf)

Hadjiosif, A.M. and Smith, M.A. Savings is restricted to the temporally labile component of motor adaptation. Translational and Computational Motor Control, San Diego, CA, November 2013. (pdf)