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Àlex Gómez-Marín

Àlex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona, 1981) is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time in inert systems, to the neurobiology of action-perception in living organisms such as flies, worms, mice, and humans. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining experimental, computational and theoretical neuro-physics, his current research deals with human minds in the real world, concentrating on what he calls “the edges of consciousness”.

As director of the Pari Center, Alex seeks to enact a kind of intellectual activism that brings a third leg to the “science stool”: apart from solid replicable data and deep imaginative theories, he sees the need to nurture the socio-political milieu that makes science possible (or impossible), bringing together leading thinkers and laypeople in a context that relaxes the self-suffocating constraints of current academe, unapologetically integrating the sciences, the arts, and the sacred.

Alex has recently received some notable mentions, including being on the list of OOOM Magazine’s 100 World’s Most Inspiring People. His research proposal “Seeing without Eyes” won the first Linda G O’Bryant Noetic Research Prize.

Past events with Àlex Gómez-Marín (52)

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Kimberly Johnson

October 9, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Amy Lemon

September 18, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Alison Liebling

August 26, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Federico Faggin

July 15, 2024

How to Think Impossibly

June 28, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Patrick Harpur

June 19, 2024

Consciousness for Real

June 4, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Ida Cuéllar

May 30, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Carlos Eire

April 17, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Pim van Lommel

March 20, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Christof Koch

February 28, 2024

A Field for the Future

February 21, 2024

Global Futures, Conscious Leadership

February 7, 2024

The Future Mind – A Conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn

January 31, 2024

The Big Questions in Science with Rupert Sheldrake

January 11, 2024

The Future Human – A Conversation with Michael Murphy

December 20, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Melissa Nelson

November 30, 2023

The Science of Wholeness

November 4, 2023

Galileo at 400

October 31, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Luca Possati

October 18, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Tanya Luhrmann

September 13, 2023

Seizing the Underlying Unity of Science, the Arts and the Sacred

August 29, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Mauro Biglino

August 23, 2023

Beyond Bohm 2023

July 16, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Edi Bilimoria

July 12, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Jennifer Banks

June 28, 2023

At the Edges of Consciousness

June 6, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Dr. Merlin Sheldrake

May 24, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Graham Hancock

May 23, 2023

Griefwalker ~ Film Screening & Talk ~ Pari, Italy

May 13, 2023

Never Land: Culture, Agriculture and the Striving after Belonging

May 12, 2023

Nexus with Dr Jeffrey Dunne

April 18, 2023

Reflections On Rupert Sheldrake’s “The Science Delusion”

March 14, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Satish Kumar

March 1, 2023

The Future Human – A Conversation with Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal

February 15, 2023

The Future Scientist: A Recapitulation

December 21, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr. Shantena Sabbadini

December 13, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr. Jordi Pigem

November 23, 2022

Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things

November 8, 2022

Recovering the Sacred

November 5, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Stephen Jenkinson

October 12, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Tim Ingold

September 28, 2022

The Enchanted Universe

August 29, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Prof. Avi Loeb

August 24, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

July 13, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr. Jimena Canales

June 15, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with John Horgan

May 11, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr Vandana Shiva

April 27, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Michel Bitbol

March 30, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

February 23, 2022

The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist

January 19, 2022

The Consciousness of Neuroscience

November 6, 2021