Conor Fearon is a graduate of engineering and medicine from University College Dublin, Ireland. He received his PhD in neural engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 2016 for work focusing on the quantitative assessment of sensory, motor and cognitive aspects of gait freezing in Parkinson’s disease (PD). He undertook residency training in Ireland and subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in movement disorders as the Edmond J. Safra Fellow in Movement Disorders at Toronto Western Hospital. He is currently a consultant neurologist at the Dublin Neurological Institute at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. His research focuses technologies for the diagnosis, prognosis and care of people with PD, with a focus on biomedical signal processing. He is particularly interested in the quantitative assessment of clinical features of movement disorders with a view to creating clinically relevant, noninvasive biomarkers for use as markers of disease progression.