Àlex Gómez-Marín

Àlex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona, 1981) is a Spanish scientist, a theoretical physicist and neuroscientist. He earned a Masters in biophysics and a PhD in physics at the University of Barcelona. He then became a postdoctoral fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. Since 2016, he has been a principal investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante, Spain, where he is currently an associate professor at the Spanish National Research Council.

Alex had a near-death experience in March of 2021. He then decided to devote his research efforts to the scientific study of human minds in the real world, concentrating on what he calls “the edges” of consciousness – a wild, weird, and wonderful field where great enigma meets gross stigma. 

From 2022 to 2025 he was the director of the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy, a center dedicated to exploring the intersection of science, the arts, and the sacred. In 2023 he was awarded the first Linda G O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. In 2024 Alex was selected as one of the world’s most inspiring people by OOOM 100. In 2025 he was nominated as one of ten revolutionary scientists by Feed Your Head.