Dr. Romo is professor of neuroscience at the Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He received his M.D. degree from UNAM and a D.Sc. in the field of neuroscience from the University of Paris in France. His postdoctoral work was done with Wolfram Schultz at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and with Vernon Mountcastle at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Romo received the 1990 Demuth Prize in Neuroscience from the Swiss Medical Research Foundation, the 2000 National Prize in Sciences and Arts from the Mexican government, the 2002 Prize in Basic Medical Sciences from the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), the 2008 Mexico City Prize in Basic Sciences, and the 2009 Ranwell Caputto prize from the Argentinean Society of Neuroscience. Dr. Romo is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, a member of the Neurosciences Research Program, and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Ranulfo Romo's lab combines psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments to investigate the neural codes for perceptual discrimination. Current research in his lab aims to understand how sensory experiences arise from activity of brain circuits.