Juan Gallego

Dr. Juan Gallego from the Champalimaud Foundation returns for the 2026–2027 MBCT Seminar Series—talk details to be announced Don't miss a seminar! Join our mailing list for MBCT Seminar announcements and updates about future events Meet the SpeakerJuan Gallego, Principal Investigator, Champalimaud Foundation Hosted by Yiqi Jiang (Schnitzer Lab & Linderman Lab) Dr. Juan Gallego is a Principal Investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation, which he joined in October 2025. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor at Imperial College London (since 2020), and 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. Dr. Gallego’s research focuses on understanding how animals including humans acquire, execute and adapt their movements. To this end, his lab combines behavioural experiments in mice and humans, large-scale neural recordings, closed-loop manipulations, data analysis techniques, and computational models. He is also interested in applying his lab’s findings to advance neurotechnologies to restore function to people with movement disorders. During his career, he has published around fourty journal articles on these topics. His research has been funded by the EU Commission, the UK Research Institutes, ARIA, and the ERC. Speaker Website Continue the conversation: All attendees are invited to digest the seminar with a complimentary dinner with the speaker in the Theory Center after the seminar.