Andrew Meier, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Boston University. Andrew received his B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, New Mexico, and his PhD in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. His research investigates neuroplasticity and learning in speech motor control. Currently he is involved in a collaboration between the Guenther Lab and Dr. Mark Richardson at Mass General Hospital, designing and analyzing speech science studies with patients undergoing surgery for deep brain stimulation. In these studies, Andrew seeks to understand the physiology of the cortical, basal ganglia, and thalamic networks that underlie the learning of new speech motor patterns. These studies have implications for understanding early speech motor learning, including the development of speech disorders, such as stuttering and apraxia of speech.