Daniel Benjamin Aharoni

Daniel Benjamin Aharoni is an Associate Professor in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Neurology, with affiliations in both the School of Medicine and interdisciplinary neuroscience research groups. His work bridges engineering, physics, and neuroscience to develop open-source neurotechnologies like the Miniscope system, now used in over 450 laboratories worldwide.

Research interests include:

• Optical Imaging: Miniature microscopes for freely behaving animals
• Neural Dynamics: Single-cell and multi-region neural activity analysis
• Behavioral Neuroscience: Social behavior, spatial coding, and aversive memory studies
• Biomedical Hardware: FPGA-based real-time decoding systems

His publications span high-speed volumetric imaging (2018), Miniscope-LFOV (2023), and BehaviorDEPOT (2022), focusing on hardware-software integration for neuroscience. The lab emphasizes democratizing access to neurotechnology and bridging tool design with biological complexity.