Joan Francesc Alonso
Teaching Assistant at the Automatic Control Department (ESAII), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Research Footprint
Joan Francesc Alonso appears in 5 tracked papers (2005–2015), most studied alongside Ayahuasca and Placebo, across Adolescents, Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and Equity and Ethics.
Most-cited paper: Report on psychoactive drug use among adolescents using ayahuasca within a religious context (120 citations).
Frequent co-authors: Charles Grob, Draulio Silveira and Dartiu Xavier da Silveira.
Background & Research
Joan Francesc Alonso was born in Ripoll in 1979 and earned a Telecommunication Engineer degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2002, followed by a Master in Bioengineering in 2004. He worked as a research assistant at UPC’s Biomedical Engineering Research Centre and later as a researcher at CIBER-BBN before earning a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UPC in 2011. His research has focused on biological signal analysis, especially EEG and MEG, and he has been affiliated with UPC’s Automatic Control Department.
Key Impact
He is a coauthor on influential ayahuasca and psychedelic neurophysiology studies, including work showing that psychedelics transiently alter directed information flow in the human brain.
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