Agustin Ibanez

About

Agustin Ibanez is an Argentinean neuroscientist interested in global diversity and disparity in brain health. He is a full professor and Director of the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile). Also, Agustin is a Team Leader of the Predictive Brain Health Modelling Group at Trinity College Dublin, and Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI, UCSF). He has received research funding from the NIH/NIA, Alzheimer’s s Association, Fogarty International Center, Rainwater Charitable Foundation, Takeda, GBHI (USA); Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); ANID (Chile); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); DAAD (Germany); CONICET (Argentina); MRC (United Kingdom); and Horizon 2020 (Europe). Dr. Ibanez holds a track record with +370 publications (160+ in the last five years), including top-ten journals (e.g., Nature Medicine, Lancet Neurology, World Psychiatry, Nature Reviews Neurology, Nature Aging, Nature Human Behavior, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Trends in Neuroscience, Nature Communications, JAMA Neurology, Neuron, Brain). As a consultant, he has provided expertise in digital biomarkers and global approaches to dementia for startups. Dr. Ibanez is the founder of the Multi-partner consortium to expand dementia research in Latin America (ReDLat); the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium on Dementia (LAC-CD); and the BrainLat. His team has developed a multicentric framework to address the impact of diversity in brain health, using computational neuroscience and machine learning approaches to maximize replications across diverse and underrepresented populations. He has developed brain-phenotype models by integrating computational neuroscience with social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience. Agustin has directed or co-directed more than 40 postgraduate research projects and created the first major in Behavioral Sciences in South America in 2020. He has received prestigious international awards (including the ALBA-Elsevier Award on Brain Sciences, the IgNobel, the Outstanding Latin American Professor award from the Penser Foundation, the Nelson Butters Award of the International Neuropsychological Society; among others) and local recognitions (Outstanding recognition, Legislature of Buenos Aires; and the Outstanding Neighbor Award of San Juan City, his birthplace). His research has been highlighted in the BBC, Nature, Nature News, Nature Medicine, Nature Aging, Discovery Channel, Popular Science, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Le Monde, and Oxford University Press.