About

José M. Muñoz is a researcher, speaker, and advisor specializing in the ethical, legal, and social implications of neurotechnology, with a particular focus on global neurotechnology governance. He is the Founding Director of the International Neurotechnology Governance Observatory (INEGOV), an initiative of the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (CINET). He is also a Berkman Klein Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He sits on the Board of Directors of the International Neuroethics Society. His research experience includes fellowships at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Navarra. He earned a B.S./M.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Logic and the History and Philosophy of Science.

His more than 100 publications have appeared in scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Biotechnology, and The Lancet Psychiatry, as well as in public-facing venues such as the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Financial Times, and The Boston Globe. He is also the lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of Neurolaw, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Beyond academia, he has spoken at TEDx and has been featured and interviewed by leading media outlets, including Wired, El País, El Mundo, TVE (Spanish public television), and Cadena SER.

He has been invited as a speaker and advisor by international organizations such as the United Nations (including UNESCO), INTERPOL, and the International Brain Initiative; by national institutions including the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Government of Spain, and the Royal Spanish Academy; and by legislative bodies such as the Senate of Mexico and the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina. He served as an expert in the first judicial ruling worldwide to grant legal protection to a consumer’s brain data (Supreme Court of Chile).