Jose A. Garrido is an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices Group, which explores novel electronic materials, such as graphene and other 2D materials, and their potential in electronic and bioelectronic applications.
He received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a postdoc at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München (Germany). He obtained his habilitation in experimental physics at this university in 2010 and from 2011 to 2015 held a lecturer (Privatdozent) position at its Department of Physics.
In 2015 Jose A. Garrido joined the ICN2 where, in addition to his role as Group Leader, he is Vice-Director. He is the coordinator of thei-VISIONproject funded byLa Caixa Foundation, where 5 institutions join forces in the development of a retinal implant to restore vision. Since October 2022, he has also coordinated the EIC Pathfinder MINIGRAPH project, in which 7 institutions from 5 countries work together to develop and validate a new generation of brain implants with closed-loop neuromodulation capabilities enabled by high-density arrays of graphene microelectrodes.
Jose A Garrido is also the founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and member of the Board of Directors of INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, an ICN2 spin-off that aims at the commercialization of graphene-based neural devices for medical applications. Employing ICN2-patented technology, INBRAIN has made a tremendous step towards the clinical use of graphene-based BCI therapeutic technology with the recent approval by MHRA (England regulatory approval body) of the first-in-human clinical study using graphene neural interfaces. Additionally, together with ICN2, the company received €2.5M in the framework of the EIC Transition program sponsored by the European Commission to accelerate the clinical translation of graphene transistors for brain-computer interfaces.