Alfonso Nieto-Castanon, PhD (Nieto Castañón)
Computational neuroscientist
Director, Computational Neuroscience Research Lab, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Visiting Researcher (2018-2025), Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, USA
Research Affiliate (2022-2025), McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
ResearchGate Alfonso-Nieto-Castanon
LinkedIn alfonso-nieto-castanon-950a8831
e-mail alfnie @cnrlab.org @bu.edu @mit.edu
I work on the field of computational neuroscience, and my background is on cognitive neuroscience (Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University) and engineering (B.S./M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid). My areas of specialization are modeling and statistics, brain imaging methods, and machine learning, and my main research interest is the understanding and characterization of human brain dynamics with neuroimaging.
On this site you will find my most recent publications and some of the related research software that I have developed over the past few years, as well as some of the programming and data-analysis competitions and art projects that I enjoy when not working on my research.
PUBLICATION STATS
11 high-impact publications
publications in the top 1% by Research Interest Score compared to all publications from the same year
top 1% high-impact researchers
author ranked in the top 1% by aggregated Research Interest Score compared to all researchers
RI Score: 7,013 reads: 69,089 citations: 12,103
source ResearchGate, April 2025
top 2% most-cited Computational Neuroscience researchers
author ranked in the top 2% by number of citations compared to all researchers in the same field
14,931 citations
4,810 per-author citations (citations-divided-by-authors per publication)
2,135 citations in 2024 (citations during last calendar year only)
publications: 86 i10-index: 61 h-index: 40
source Google Scholar, April 2025
8 highly-cited publications
publications in the top 1% by number of citations compared to all publications from the same field and year
92th citation percentile median (50% publications in the top 8% most frequently cited)
source Clarivate / Web of Science, June 2023
SOFTWARE STATS
1 high-impact software package (CONN functional connectivity toolbox)
in the top 1% most frequently viewed and downloaded tools in neuroimaging
162,692 file downloads
2,288,333 pageviews
14,971 support forum posts
source NITRC, April 2025
6,570 academic publications using CONN
source Google Scholar, April 2025
