Encarna Micó Amigo is a Spanish biomedical engineer whose enthusiasm for discovering new cultures drove to study all around the world. She aims to develop easily-deployable and low-cost medical technology to enhance the quality of public health, with special interest on low-middle income countries.

Encarna has studied a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Universitat de Barcelona. After completing her studies, Encarna was awarded by Universitat Politècnica de València with the international scholarship “Blasco Ibáñez”. Under this program she joined the College of Biomedical Engineering & Applied Sciences in Kathmandu, Nepal, combining research and teaching activities. In 2013 she took part of the “Moving Beyond” scientific network with the industrial partner McRoberts B.V., The Hague, The Netherlands, under the ITN grant (Industrial Academic Initial Training Network within Marie Skłodowska-Curie FP7 Actions). Under this scientific framework, she completed a doctoral thesis at the Movement Sciences department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in strong collaboration with Tübingen and Kiel Universiätsklinikum, Germany. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoc at Universities of Salford and Southampton, United Kingdom, in collaboration with Exceed NGO (Cambodia). Currently, she is working as a Research Associate at Newcastle University, as part of the consortium “Mobilise-D” which aims “connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement”. wijsbegeerte aan de Manchester Metropolitan University, VK.