Eduardo Fernandez received a M.D. degree from the University of Alicante (1986) and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1990. He is currently Professor of Cellular Biology at the Department of Histology and Anatomy of the University Miguel Hernández (Spain), Director of the Neural Engineering Group of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red in the subject area of Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN, Spain), and Adjunct Professor at the John Moran Eye Center (University of Utah, USA).

In the last few years, he has been coordinating several projects to demonstrate the feasibility of a neuroprosthesis interfaced with the occipital cortex as a means through which a limited but useful sense of vision could be restored to the profoundly blind. He is also working on brain plasticity and reorganization in severe vision loss and developing non-invasive methodologies for the selection of appropriate candidates for the implantation of cortical visual prostheses.

Confirmed Speaker or Attendee at:

• Optica FVM '24

  Optica FVM '24: Optica Fall Vision Meeting

  October 03, 2024 - October 06, 2024

  STEM Conference Centre, York, UK

Awards & Recognitions

• 2023: Bartimaeus Award

Experience

• Director

  CORTIVIS

• Professor (1998 - present)

  Biomedical Neuroengineering Research Group

  Miguel Hernández University

Education

• PhD, Neuroscience (1990)

  University of Alicante, Spain

• MD, Medicine (1986)

  University of Alicante, Spain