Originally from Granada, Spain, by 2015 and 2017, Antonio earned a B. Eng. degree in Industrial Technologies and a M. Eng. degree in Industrial Engineering at UPCT in Cartagena (Spain), while specializing in Biomedical Engineering as an international student at Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) during his master’s degree. During this master’s thesis, he developed Deep Learning models of retinal encoding of visual information.

In 2018, he started working on his PhD on cortical visual neuroprostheses under co-supervision of J.M. Ferrández Vicente (UPCT ) and Eduardo Fernández Jover (Biomedical Neuroengineering Research Group at UMH). During 2019, he worked as a visiting researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology within Daniel Berrar’s Data Science laboratory, investigating on models of neural encoding and decoding, while working as an AI/computer vision engineer in Hongo Aerospace, a drone company, also at Tokyo.

In Fall 2020, Antonio joined Pieter Roelfsema’s lab under the INTENSE project, where now he works on the next generation of brain implants for the blind together with Roelfsema’s team and collaborators.

Experience

• Neuroengineering Researcher (2019 - present)

  Vision and Cognition Group

  Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

• Personal de investigación (2017 - present)

  Biomedical Neuroengineering Research Group

  Miguel Hernández University

Education

• PhD (2017 - 2022)

  Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain

• MEng, Industrial Engineering (2015 - 2017)

  Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain

• BEng, Industrial Engineering (2011 - 2015)

  Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain