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José M. Muñoz

José M. Muñoz is an expert at the Institute of Neurotechnology and Law (UK) and an associate at the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (Spain). He was a research fellow at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Navarra. He has published extensively on the human rights implications of neurotechnology in outlets such as Nature, Science, and the Spanish edition of Scientific American. He is also the author of the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on neuroethics. He has served as a speaker and expert on these issues for several institutions, including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Spanish Royal Academy, the Human Rights Commission of Australia, and the Senate of Mexico. He has also served as an expert for the Supreme Court of Chile on the landmark lawsuit Girardi v. Emotiv, which resulted in the first court ruling worldwide that protected brain data privacy in the consumer domain. Follow him on X @jmmunoz_.