A
COMPUTATIONAL
FOUNDATION
FOR LIFE,
BRAINS & MINDS
BARCELONA
COMPUTATIONAL
FOUNDATION
BCOM is a visionary non-profit research foundation dedicated to understanding and recreating life, brains, and minds as fundamentally computational phenomena.
Our mission is to advance computational neuropsychiatry and neurophenomenology, pioneer neurosynthetic AI, and ultimately provide means for better lives and societies- biological, hybrid or synthetic.
science with impact
PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS
What shared concepts keep our models meaningful, ethical, and comparable?
DIGITAL PHYSICS &
AIT
Can algorithmic information theory and digital physics unify our models of mind?
LIFE &
EVOLUTION
How do structure, learning, and agency emerge in brains, AI, and life?
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRY
How do we turn whole‑brain and lived experience models into precision mental‑health care?
ARTIFICIAL & SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
How do we build safer, data‑efficient, brain‑inspired AI?
SOCIETY OF
AGENTS
How do simulated societies of agents illuminate social learning and cultural evolution?
EDUCATION &
CULTURE
How do we build borderless education where STEM and humanities share one culture?
ART &
SCIENCE STUDIO
What new voices emerge when in‑house artists and scientists share one studio?
THE MOMENT IS RIGHT,
TIME IS NOW
Abundant computational power, rigorous mathematical tools, transformative AI, rich big data, and exceptional talent have aligned. BCOM is the shared infrastructure that lets fields speak a common computational language and build a durable foundation for the science of tomorrow.
01. Computational Power
02. Mathematical tools
03. AI advancement
04. Big Data
05. TALENT
Board & leadership
Francesca Castaldo
Co-founder & Director
Computational neuroscientist focused on brain‑network models and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Giulio Ruffini
Co-founder & President
Physicist and neurotech founder pioneering neuromodulation, computational modeling and clinical translation.and clinical translation.
Gustavo Deco
Trustee
ICREA professor at UPF and global leader in whole‑brain modeling and clinical translation.
Ricard Solé
Trustee
ICREA professor and complex‑systems theorist at UPF and Santa Fe Institute; expert in synthetic biology and origins of life.
Karl Friston
Head Scientific Advisory Board
UCL neuroscientist and psychiatrist; architect of SPM, DCM and the Free Energy Principle.
Advisory board
Karl Friston • Giulio Ruffini • Gustavo Deco • Ricard Solé • Tomaso Poggio • Earl K. Miller • Michael Levin • Robin Carhart-Harris • David Wolpert • Xiaosi Gu • Joseph Henrich • Javier Marquez Ruiz • Dirk de Ridder • Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo • Joana Cabral • Edward Rietman • Hector Zenil • Vladimir Litvak • Jorge F. Mejias • Miguel Ángel García‑Cabezas • Mehdi Khamassi