What Degree is Necessary to Work on Brain-Computer Interfaces?

[avant-garde]

To develop brain-computer interfaces in the future, what kind of degree do you think I will need? Thanks.

 

[Choppy]

There are many different paths to this kind of work. Physics, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, and medicine all come to mind.

 

[robphy]

You might find some more-general resources here
http://www.hcibib.org/education/
http://www.hcibib.org/

 

[Monocles]

I don't think that link has much to do with what the OP is looking for, robphy, going by this page: http://sigchi.org/cdg/cdg2.html

 

[Cincinnatus]

It depends what you want aspect of the interface you want to work on. Typically labs that work on brain-machine interfaces have people with a variety of backgrounds. AKA PhD students and postdocs from computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, computer science, statistics, etc.

With highly interdisciplinary areas like this (or most everything in neuroscience) the actual field listed on your degrees is of little importance. What matters most is being motivated and competent to work in the area.