Juan Álvaro Gallego

I am a Lecturer (UK equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the Department of Bioengineering, where I lead the Behavioural Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics (Be.Neuro) Lab. My research focuses on understanding how the brain learns and controls movement. I also work to leverage this knowledge and develop neuroprosthetic technologies that restore movement to people with motor disability, especially Parkinson’s disease, tremor, and paralysis. In the lab, we pursue these goals based on a combination of behavioural experiments, high-yield neural recordings, data analysis techniques, and computational models.

Companies

• Lecturer and Group Leader Imperial College London (2020)
• Postdoctoral "Talent Attraction" Fellow Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2018 — 2020)
• Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2017 — 2018)
• Visiting Scientist Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2017 — 2017)
• Postdoctoral Fellow Northwestern University (2014 — 2017)
• Post-Doctoral Researcher Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2012 — 2013)
• Ph.D. Candidate Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2008 — 2012)
• Visiting researcher Aalborg Universitet (2011 — 2011)
• Research Engineer Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2007 — 2008)

Education

• PhD Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2009 — 2013)