Agustin Ibáñez

Dr. Ibáñez is a neuroscientist driven by two passions: research on dementia and the application of cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience beyond the lab, in areas that matter to society. He is Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CNC) at Universidad de San Andrés; a CONICET researcher; full professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; and a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA. Dr. Ibáñez has an outstanding academic career, with over 120 ISI-indexed publications in the past five years alone, including work published in top-10 journals in his field.

He has received funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), ANID (Chile), COLCIENCIAS (Colombia), DAAD (Germany), MRC (United Kingdom), CONICET (Argentina) and Alzheimer’s Association, Tau Consortium, GBHI, Takeda, and NIH/NIA (USA). He is the founder of the critical regional initiatives, such as the Multi-partner consortium to expand dementia research in Latin America (ReDLat) and the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium on Dementia (LAC-CD). His work has been highlighted in the BBC, Nature, Nature News, Discovery Channel, Popular Science, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Le Monde, and Oxford University Press, among others.