Curriculum Vitae
Giulio Ruffini
Summary
Theoretical physicist and computational neuroscientist working on the foundations of cognition and consciousness through algorithmic information theory — a program I call Kolmogorov Theory. Scientific Director of the Barcelona Computational Foundation, CSTO and co-founder of Neuroelectrics, and co-founder and CEO of Starlab. My path runs from quantum gravity, through a decade of satellite remote sensing for the European Space Agency, to the brain — modeling its dynamics and learning to modulate them.
Barcelona, Spain
Italian, Spanish, Catalan, English
Experience
Co-founder & Scientific Director
Barcelona Computational Foundation (BCOM) · Barcelona, Spain
Co-founded BCOM, a non-profit research foundation built on the premise that life and brains are fundamentally computational phenomena. As Scientific Director, I lead the foundation's research program on Kolmogorov Theory (KT) — an algorithmic-information account of agents, cognition, and consciousness — and its translation into computational neuroscience and neurophenomenology.
BCOM serves as the institutional home for Kolmogorov Theory: developing the mathematics of algorithmic agents, connecting it to brain dynamics and neuropsychiatry, and exploring its implications for artificial intelligence.
Co-founder & Chief Scientific / Technology Officer
Neuroelectrics · Barcelona, Spain & Boston, USA
Co-founded Neuroelectrics to bring non-invasive brain stimulation from the lab to the clinic. As CSTO, I direct the scientific and technology vision behind the Starstim and Enobio platforms — wearable EEG and multichannel transcranial current stimulation (tES) — and the model-driven, personalized neuromodulation programs that target epilepsy, depression, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease.
Our work pairs realistic head models and brain-network simulation with closed-loop, individualized stimulation protocols — the clinical face of computational neuroscience. Neuroelectrics technology is used by hundreds of research groups and in regulated clinical trials across the EU and US.
Co-founder & CEO
Starlab Barcelona · Barcelona, Spain
Co-founded Starlab to transform frontier science into technology with impact — "from space to neurons." Early years centered on Earth observation and GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R / GPS-R) for ESA and other space agencies; the lab then moved into computational neuroscience and neurotechnology, incubating and spinning off Neuroelectrics. As CEO I steer Starlab's research direction across remote sensing, brain modeling, and AI.
Starlab has hosted hundreds of researchers and produced an extensive body of peer-reviewed work spanning remote sensing, space science, complex systems, and neuroscience — and served as the launchpad for Neuroelectrics.
Education
University of California, Davis
PhD in Theoretical Physics — Quantum Gravity (with Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Doctoral research on the quantization of constrained, reparametrization-invariant systems — Quantization of simple parametrized systems — comparing approaches to quantizing the relativistic particle as a toy model for canonical quantum gravity. This early grounding in information, constraints, and the structure of physical theories runs through all of my later work.
University of California, Berkeley
BA in Physics and Mathematics
Undergraduate training in physics and mathematics, the foundation for graduate work in theoretical physics.