Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow
Academic Division: Electrical Engineering
Email: ag2239@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Dr Amparo Güemes is a postdoctoral 1851 Research Fellow at the Bioelectronics Lab, led by Prof George Malliaras. As a researcher, Dr Güemes distinguishes herself in the field of metabolic treatments based on neuromodulation. The interdisciplinary nature of her work includes signal processing, modelling, bioelectronics and electrophysiology to develop advanced algorithms and neurotechnology to be integrated into a closed-loop platform aiming to improve metabolic control.
Dr Güemes received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2016) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain), and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2017) and PhD in Electrical Engineering (2021) from Imperial College London (London, UK), where she was supervised by Prof Pantelis Georgiou. Her PhD research focused on the design of mathematical models of the neural regulation of glucose homeostasis. During her doctoral training, Amparo was a visiting PhD research fellow in the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Lab led by Prof Ralph Etienne-Cummings at Johns Hopkins University (US), where she gained knowledge on the in vivo impact of neural stimulation on blood glucose fluctuations.
Dr Güemes is author of more than 15 publications and presentations, in highly recognized journals and international conferences, such as the Journal of Neural Engineering and the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. She has won multiple awards from leading institutions including Imperial College and John Hopkins University, such as the Ash Prize for the best academic performance and the Stella Bagrit Centenary Memorial Prize for the best MSc individual project in her MSc in Neurotechnology in Imperial College London, and received the 3rd Prize in the prestigious Spanish National End of Degree Excellence Awards in 2020. She has also been recipient of the Rafael del Pino Felowship to pursue her master and PhD at Imperial College London, and was recently awarded the prestigious 1851 Research Fellowship by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to continue her research as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. She has recently received the Engineering Award from the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science Rising Talent Programme, which encourages the contribution of women pursuing their research careers.
Department role and responsibilities
Leader of the Neurotechnology group within the Bioelectronic Laboratory, led by Prof George Malliaras