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Julia Guiomar Niso Galán

Dr. Guiomar Niso is the head of the Neuroimaging Group at Cajal Institute, CSIC, and an elected member of the Young Academy of Spain. She works in human electrophysiology and neuroimaging to characterise healthy and diseased brain states, her final goal is understanding brain dynamics to enhance clinical applications and ultimately improve peoples’ lives.

She holds an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering  and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University and at Indiana University. Dr. Niso has contributed to multiple open science initiatives, pioneering open data repositories (the Open MEG Archives: OMEGA), open software (Brainlife, Brainstorm, Hermes) and open standards (the Brain Imaging Data Structure: BIDS), to foster reproducibility and transparency in neuroscience. Currently, Dr. Niso is part of Brainlife’s coreteam developing an open cloud platform for secure neuroscience data analysis, and Chairs the BIDS Steering Group. Her leadership has been recognized by multiple awards, highlighting the Medal for Young Researchers by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, the Ada Byron Award to Women Technologist by Deusto University, the International Open Science Prize by the Tanenbaum Institute and her distinction as a member of the Young Academy of Spain.