My passion is Brain Technology.

 Everything that implicates technology applied to human health and human self knowledge amuses me.

 The concept of a quantified self given to us by sensing technology and big data is what defines my path and my persuaded goal. This source of knowledge about the human mind and the human behavior returned to the client by an immersive and interactive environment fulfills all the needs that are necessary for performance optimization and cognitive enhancement.

 My experience in social, affective, cognitive and computational neuroscience and in techniques such as neuroimaging and electroencephalography applied to clinical psychology and cognitive research had gave me the roots needed to work directly with clients from sportsman to peak executives and clinical patients.

 For the last five years I have been working with techie developers, geeky artists, researchers and hackers who share the same vision as mine: to link the brain to a digital medium and to the internet of things so we can enter in a transhumanism age and promote brain computer interactions as well as brain to brain communication.

 My ultimate research aspiration is to understand how this new media, mainly interactivity and immersion can alter our brain and how our mind is going to adapt to this new realm of existence that is the digital world.

 Currently I´m the director of the division of Neurofeedback at Neurobios – Neuroscience Institute and partner at MuArts, a brain-computer-interfaces software and hardware development project.

Neurofeedback & Neurotechnology applied to the arts.

“With a Gunk (Geek + Punk) approach we will present you: µARTs.

An emerging Portuguese company that links braintech with top notch concept design and prototyping.  This collective is the integration of a new transdisciplinar and transversal field of research and design in Neurotechnology specifically named “Brain New-Media and Interactivity”.

As the quantified self paradigm is evolving each day, monitoring the brain and tracking the mind is the core of this business bloom. By 2017, according research, scientific and market predictions, 64 million health and wellness wearables would be traded globally and mind control actuators would be a reality in the near future. The wearable tech industry (smart watches; wearable glasses; brain-computer-interfaces; the Internet of things; brainwear and neurotech fashion) is growing each year exponentially and quantifying the self is the main goal of all these technologies and the brain is it´s main character. Our core paradigm is the Neurofeedback model of accessing and processing the brain information in real-time and feeding it into a digital or physical interface so the client can have access to it and control it´s environment.

To fulfill this purpose and act as a spinoff of what is been doing in the academia µARTs was born to design artistic experiences, audio-visual performances, interactive installations, interactive clothes and accessories, etc..

We usually work as a core Neurotechnology group searching or being spotted for satellite projects in the field of the arts, design, other technologies, education and the clinical practice. All areas that somehow need and are at the moment in need of project consultancy  or collaboration in Neurotechnology.

After these collaborations the outcomes usually are: market-ready products; prototypes; concepts for tools, methods or ideas; performances; installations; artistic pieces or further co-labs.

We work close related to a Neuroscience Institute (Neurobios), where the neurobehavioural models underneath of all this technology are tested and our algorithms cross-checked with pools of subjects, clients and patients.”