Leadership Team
George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a BS from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD from the University of Groningen and did a postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Before joining Cambridge, he was a faculty member at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne and at Cornell University, and served as the Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility. His research has been recognised with awards from the European Academy of Sciences (Blaise Pascal Medal), the Materials Research Society (Mid-Career Researcher Award), the New York Academy of Sciences (Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists), the US National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development Award), and DuPont (Young Professor Award). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Materials Research Society, Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences.
Email • @georgemalliaras
Damiano G. Barone s an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, Adjunct Professor at Rice University and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He holds a medical degree from the University of Naples Federico II, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Open University, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge. Following his neurosurgical training in Cambridge, UK, he completed postdoctoral work in Electrical Engineering under Professor Malliaras and pursued specialized fellowships in Functional and Complex Epilepsy Surgery at the Walton Centre and Peripheral Nerve Surgery at the Mayo Clinic. In his clinical practice, Dr. Barone treats complex brain, spine, and peripheral nerve conditions, including epilepsy, movement disorders, spasticity, and nerve injuries. He integrates cutting-edge technological advancements with patient-centered care, focusing on neurorestoration for challenging neurological disorders. His research centers on biohybrid neural interfaces, foreign body reaction to neural implants, and developing minimally invasive strategies for neural device integration.
Email • @baronedg
Amparo Güemes González is a Royal Academy of Engineering / Rosetrees Research Fellow specializing in closed-loop neurotechnology systems for neuro-metabolic control. She earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2016) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2017) and PhD in Electrical Engineering (2021) from Imperial College London (London, UK). Her doctoral research focused on designing mathematical models for the neural regulation of glucose homeostasis. During this time, she was also a visiting PhD research fellow in the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Lab at Johns Hopkins University, where she gained expertise in the in vivo effects of neural stimulation on blood glucose levels. After completing her PhD, she was awarded the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship to conduct a 3-year postdoc at the Bioelectronics Lab, where she has developed advanced algorithms and neurotechnology for interfacing with the vagus nerve to enhance glucose control. Her interdisciplinary work spans signal processing, modelling, bioelectronics, and electrophysiology, with the goal of developing closed-loop neurotechnology platforms for improved metabolic regulation.
Email • @AmparoGuemes