Juan Álvaro Gallego, PhD
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, PTDr Juan Gallego recently joined Champalimaud Foundation. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, which he joined in January 2020. He also held Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Northwestern University. He was awarded a PhD from CSIC and University Carlos III in 2013.
His research focuses on understanding how animals learn and control their movements through a combination of behavioural experiments, large-scale neural recordings, data analysis, and computational models. He is also interested in applying his group’s findings to advance neural interfaces to restore function to people with movement disorders. During his career, he has published over thirty-five journal articles on these various topics. His research has been funded by the EU Commission, the UK Research Institutes, ARIA, and the ERC.
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