De Felipe studied
Biology, graduated in 1975 and received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the
Complutense University of Madrid. He completed his postdoctoral training from 1980 to 1983 at the
Cajal Institute, He is also director, at the Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) of the
Technical University of Madrid (UPM), of the Cajal Laboratory of Cortical Circuits. De Felipe returned to the Cajal Institute in 1991 and formed a research team to analyze alterations in the cerebral cortex in patients with epilepsy. In 1997 he participated in
NASA's Neurolab project to study the impact of space flight on neural circuits in the brain. Since 2006 he began researching the effects of
Alzheimer's disease on the microstructure and micro-organization of the
cerebral cortex. De Felipe has participated in the
Blue Brain Project since it began in 2005, led by Professor
Henry Markram. The Blue Brain project became an international initiative, in which Spain participates with the
Cajal Blue Brain project led by De Felipe. The Blue Brain project has served as the basis for proposing the global project called the
Human Brain Project of the
European Commission, started in October 2013, with the participation of laboratories and institutions from all over the world. De Felipe is co-director, together with Professor
Seth Grant, of the Molecular and
Cellular neuroscience division. De Felipe has received awards and recognitions such as the
Krieg Cortical Kudos Award from the Cajal Club (United States) in 1999 for his work on the cerebral cortex, the Chair
Santiago Ramón y Cajal award from the Academy of Sciences of Mexico that he received in 2005, or the appointment in 2013 of Honorary Member of the
American Association for Anatomy for his research on anatomical sciences. == Selected works ==