José M. Muñoz is a researcher, speaker and adviser specializing in the ethical, legal and social implications of neurotechnology, with a particular focus on global neurotechnology governance. He is founding director of the International Neurotechnology Governance Observatory, a global platform based at the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics. He is also a faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He serves on the board of directors of the International Neuroethics Society. He has previously held research fellowships at Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Navarra. He holds a B.S./M.S. in biology and a Ph.D. in logic and the history and philosophy of science.
Muñoz is the author of nearly 100 publications, with work appearing in Nature, Science, The Lancet Psychiatry, Neuroethics, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Financial Times, The Boston Globe and Scientific American (Spanish edition). He has also been featured and interviewed in leading media outlets, including Wired, El País, El Mundo, TVE (Spanish public television) and Cadena SER. He has been invited as a speaker and adviser by institutions such as the United Nations, INTERPOL, the Organization of American States, the Government of Spain, the Royal Spanish Academy, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Senate of Mexico, and the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina, as well as TEDx. He also served as an expert in the first judicial ruling worldwide that granted legal protection to a consumer’s brain data (Supreme Court of Chile).
