Dr. Douglas Tweed received an MD from the University of Manitoba and a Diploma of Honours Standing in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Physiology from Western University in London, Canada. After a postdoc in the Neurology Department at Eberhard-Karls Universitaet in Tuebingen, Germany, he took an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Physiology at Western University. He joined the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto in 1998 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2002. He served as a graduate coordinator in Physiology for four years, from 2016 to 2019. Research in Dr. Tweed’s laboratory deals with questions of computational neuroscience, in particular the mathematical principles of learning and control in sensorimotor systems. He lives in Toronto and owns his own set of ramekins.