Dr Amparo Güemes is Assistant Professor in Bioelectronics Systems at the University of Cambridge and a Royal Academy of Engineering and Rosetrees Research Fellow. She leads the Neuro-Metabolic Control Systems Lab. 

Amparo earned 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). She was also a visiting PhD research fellow in the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Her research has been recognised with awards and fellowships from Imperial College London, Rafael del Pino (Fellowship), Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (1851 Research Fellowship), L’Oréal UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science Rising Talent Programme (Engineering Award), and the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (Beloe Fellowship).