Manuel Hernandez received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2012. He is a teaching associate professor in Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and affiliate faculty member in Bioengineering, the Beckman Institute, Health & Kinesiology, and Neuroscience Program. His fields of professional interest include aging, movement disorders, and systems neuroscience.