Sliman Bensmaia was not your typical scientist.
If you saw Mr. Bensmaia cruising Hyde Park in a leather jacket atop a Harley-Davidson or gigging with his funk jazz band FuzZz — the extra Z to capture the 1970s vibe of a fuzzy pair of rear-view mirror dice — you probably wouldn’t be able to guess his day job as a pioneering researcher in the neuroscience of touch whose work focused on creating the sensation in prosthetic limbs and the non-functioning limbs of people with spinal cord injuries.
