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 Director of the International Neurotechnology Governance Observatory (INEGOV) and Head of Neurotechnology at the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (Spain). He also serves 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 holds a B.S./M.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Logic and the History and Philosophy of Science.

He is the author of nearly 100 publications, with work appearing in Nature, Science, The Lancet Psychiatry, Neuroethics, the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Financial Times, The Boston Globe, and Scientific American (Spanish edition). He has also been featured in major Spanish media outlets, including El País, El Mundo, TVE (Spanish public television), and Cadena SER. He has been invited as a speaker and advisor by institutions such as the United Nations, INTERPOL, the Organization of American States, the Government of Spain, the Royal Spanish Academy, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Senate of Mexico, and the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina, as well as TEDx. He also served as an expert in the first judicial ruling worldwide that granted legal protection to a consumer’s brain data (Supreme Court of Chile).