Àlex Gómez-Marín

Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona, 1981) is a physicist turned neuroscientist investigating human consciousness in the real world. He holds a degree in physics, a masters in biophysics, and PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Barcelona, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships as a neuroscientist at the EMBL Center for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. For the last decade Alex has been a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante, Spain, and Director of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory. He is currently a Senior Researcher there and an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. He was director of the Pari Center from 2022 to 2025. In 2023 he was awarded the Linda O’Bryant research prize by the Institute of Noetic Sciences for his research on minds beyond brains. He is currently a member of the advisory board of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative and of the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative. He is also executive editor of Robert Kuhn’s the Landscape of Consciousness Website. Alex has published over a hundred articles in science journals, including Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Science. He is also the author of The Science of the Last Threshold: a Journey to the Limits of Life, Death, and Consciousness, recently published in Spanish by Planeta.