Ibai Díez Palacio

Ikerbasque Research Fellow and Group Coordinator, Computational Neuroimaging, IIS Biobizkaia Health Research Institute

Ibai Díez Palacio is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow and group coordinator in the Computational Neuroimaging Group at IIS Biobizkaia Health Research Institute in Barakaldo, Spain. His work sits at the intersection of human connectomics, neuroimaging, neurogenetics and computational neuroscience. He studies how structural and functional brain networks relate to molecular and developmental processes, and how these relationships can help explain vulnerability, progression and clinical variation in neurological disorders. His research spans Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, functional neurological disorder, autism, stroke and brain ageing. Recent work has linked developmental sequencing, gene-expression programmes and adult brain-network organisation, with implications for understanding why central network hubs are disproportionately affected across neurological disease. He is also involved in open-data and reproducibility efforts that connect brain structure, function and neurogenetic information. His perspective is especially relevant to precision neurology, multimodal health data and AI-enabled clinical research.