Université autonome de Barcelone (UAB)
Directeur de la recherche, Institut Guttmann
Dr. Jose M Tormos is MD and PhD by the University of Valencia. His doctoral thesis was aimed to study the parameters of noninvasive brain stimulation for modulating cortical excitability to optimize rehabilitation outcomes. He was a post-doctoral researcher affiliated to the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, under the direction of Prof. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, at Harvard University. Between 1999 and 2003 he was Associate Professor of the University of Valencia.
Since 2003 he is research director of Institut Guttmann, a University Institute of Neurorehabilitation affiliated to the UAB. Since 2006 he is director of the Master in Neurorehabilitation of the Guttmann Neurorehabilitation Institute.
He is author of over 60 scientific articles on subjects related to neuronal plasticity and neurorehabilitation, and is co-author of 4 patents.