Neurotechnology encompasses any method or electronic device which interfaces with the nervous system to monitor or modulate neural activity. The UPM Masters in Neurotechnology will provide students with an advanced and specialised education in this field, while giving them the opportunity to initiate technological innovation tasks in companies in the neurotechnology sector or clinical centres and hospitals. These external academic internships in entities related to the subject matter of the Masters are part of the curricular activities and will be supervised by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, with the aim of applying and complementing the knowledge, skills and competences acquired, which will prepare them for the exercise of professional activities.
In this sense, EBRAINS, the leading digital infrastructure for studying the brain, which includes the most relevant players in the sector’s ecosystem, will play an important role as a link between future graduates and the entities in the sector in which they will carry out their academic internships.
This first 2024 – 2025 course intake has 25 students, most of them with biomedical engineering training. They come from all over Spain as well as from Europe, Egypt, Iran and China. The inaugural lecture, an example of the seminars included in the programme, featured a guest lecture by Dr. Álvaro Pascual Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.
The curriculum includes a variety of courses – Neuroscience, Neuroethics, Neurodevices, AI in Neurotechnology, Neurosignals and neuroimaging, Neuroprosthetics – that are taught by professors with extensive teaching and research experience. This is a multidisciplinary faculty, the basis on which the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid aims to advance in the fields of neuroscience and neurotechnology in the coming years, with this master’s degree being an essential component of this objective.
The scientific lead of the initiative is Prof. Bryan Strange and the Masters is coordinated by Prof. Enrique J. Gómez as Coordinator and Prof. Giorgos Kontaxakis as Academic Secretary. All of them coordinate courses of the Masters as well.
All the information about the Master’s Degree in Neurotechnology of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid can be found at: https://neurotec.upm.es/master-en-neurotecnologia/
