I received my M.S in Telecomunication Engineering from the University of Granada (UGR), Spain in 2011. In December 2011 I officially joined to the UGR with a National Grant as a researcher of the European Project TOMSY. I also received my M.S. in Computer Architecture and Networks from the UGR in 2012. Finally, I received my Doctorate from the UGR in 2017 in Computational neuroscience. I am currently now an associate professor in the Department of Computer Systems Architecture and Technology at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
From 2012 to 2014, I participated in an EU project related to adaptive learning mechanisms and bio-inspired control REALNET. From 2014 to the 2020, I participated in the Human Brain Project (HBP); a ten-year, large-scale European research initiative whose goal was to better understand the human brain and its diseases and ultimately to emulate its computational capabilities. In 2016 I moved to Dr. Arleo’s lab in Paris for a period of six months. In 2020 I obtained a possition as assistant professor in the Polytechnique University of Madrid. In 2021 I moved to the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), in Houston, Texas, US, with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) global fellowship. After the firsts two years of the project, I returned to the UGR, for a period of one year. In 2024 I returned to my position as assistant professor in the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2025 I obtained a position as permanent professor in the Polytechnique University of Madrid
My research interests include the simulation of spiking neural networks in real-time for embodiment experiments. More concretely, I am interested in the cerebellum, a small brain center tightly related with the coordination of movements. Our research group has developed a cerebellar model able to perform embodiment experiments with simulated and real robots in real-time, mimicking the way the brain controls our bodies. This kind of embodiment experiments require from specializes tools able to perform the whole simulation in real-time. During my PhD degree I have been focused in the development of EDLUT, a spiking neural network simulator integrating event-driven and time-driven computation schemes using parallel CPU-GPU co-processing. This simulator has been specially designed to perform embodiment experiments in real-time.
Additionally, during my two year stay at BCM, I also performed multiple experimental studies in mice. Using different Eye Blink Conditioning (EBC) experiments in genetically modified mice, I studied how the cerebellum is able to generate sequences of body movements. Additionally, during this period I also developed Phyllum, an automatics analysis tool for electrophysiological recording in the cerebellum with ultradense probes.
PhD in Computational Neuroscience, 2017
University of Granada
MSc in Computer Architecture and Networks, 2012
University of Granada
MSc in Telecommunication Engineering, 2011
University of Granada