World Society for Stereotactic
and Functional Neurosurgery

He completed the M.B.-Ph.D. programme at University College London (UK) in 2004. His Ph.D., conducted at the Functional Imaging Laboratory, Institute of Neurology, London, under the supervision of Ray Dolan and Karl Friston, argued for a functional dissociation between anterior and posterior hippocampus in humans. Subsequently, alongside clinical work in general medicine and neurology, he continued to study memory in humans, with particular focus on the effects of emotion on memory formation, He started his own laboratory in 2011, the Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, CTB-UPM, Madrid, Spain. His laboratory employs a multi-modal approach combining functional brain imaging techniques with patient lesion data, pharmacology, genetics, human intracranial recordings and deep brain stimulation to study human memory. In 2014 he published a new model of hippocampal function, alongside the winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine from the same year. In 2018 he was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator grant to characterise human subcortico-cortical neuronal circuit dynamics associated with enhanced episodic memory for salient stimuli. In 2021, he led a successful application for an infrastructure grant from the Spanish science ministry to fund the acquisition of an optically-pumped magnetoencephalography system. He currently leads the UPM Neurotechnology initiative and is Scientific Director of the Spanish node of EBRAINS.

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