Juan Gallego is principal investigator of the NeoCybernetics Lab at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. His lab is affiliated with the Neuroscience of Disease and Neuroscience programs and the Center for Restorative Neurotechnology. It was previously part of Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering, where Gallego remains affiliated as honorary associate professor.
Gallego primarily focuses on understanding how the brain and spinal cord acquire, control and adapt motor skills. He is also interested in applying their findings to novel neurotechnologies to restore movement to people with neurological disorders. The lab pursues these goals based on a combination of behavioral experiments, multi-region neural recordings, data analysis techniques and computational models in mice and humans.
Gallego earned his M.Sc. in robotics and automation and his Ph.D. in electrical and electronics engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
