About

Starlab is a private Research and Development company funded in 2000 whose main areas of work lie in the Space and Neurotechnology sectors. The Company employs physicists, mathematicians, environmentalists and engineers who are backed up by a business team aiming to provide technical solutions, products and services for governments, industry and downstream markets.

In 2014 Starlab created Neuroelectrics® a digital brain health company that innovates at the intersection of neuroscience, physics, machine learning and hardware.

Background experience

Starlab Space provides top-level technical consulting and value added Earth Observation (EO) services to many clients in Europe, and contributes significantly to several ESA technologies, applications and downstream programs.

Our added value are the modelling and data integration capabilities, in the intersection between Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence.

At Starlab Space we have a track record of projects demonstrating a comprehensive set of capabilities with a passion for creating new services that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Starlab Neuroscience provides highest value consulting services for data analysis and neurotechnology to our clients in the public and private sector. We make use of public funding as seed capital for developing our riskiest research ideas and concepts, and fostering innovation in neurotechnology with a deep commitment to technology transfer into the market. The Starlab Neuroscience BU capability is based on a unique combination of expertise in different stages of the data analysis pipeline from the signal acquisition through signal processing to the final application of advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques.

Starlab has proven experience participating (+100) & leading (+20) projects in the frame of EU, ESA, NASA, Private Foundations, and National funded programs.

Starlab counts on a wide experience in client service and market development in Real State, Construction, Agriculture, Health, Neurotechnology, Aquaculture, Energy, Diagnostics, User Experience, and Smart Cities.

Smart Cities

"Europe remains ahead of U.S. in creating smart cities" (The New York Times).
"Saving water with smart irrigation system in Barcelona" (Libelium).
"Barcelona implements state-of-the-art initiatives thanks to Copernicus" (Copernicus Observer).
"Cuatro historias de emprendedores" (La Vanguardia).

Neurotechnology

Starlab developed a new generation of more powerful and controllable non-invasive brain stimulation technologies. Starlab’s medical device for transcranial current stimulator (tCS) StarStim was prototyped within a public funded R&D project. Technology transfer was successfully completed by creating the spin-off Neuroelectrics.
"Neuroelectrics wants to be Fitbit for the brain" (Wired).
"La pareja de españoles fascinada por curar cerebros" (Copernicus Observer).
"Ana Maiques interview". (Representació de la Comissió Europea a Catalunya i les Illes Balears. YouTube channel).

Construction & real state

GreenDEX. An environmental quality index for city dwellers.
Target detection. Build datasets for object detection on satellite imagery.

User Experience

Provide access to the inner world of your user groups in real-time. ExperienceLab, a customizable combination of bio-sensors integrated with your own ones and synchronized via cloud recording software and platform can provide you insight in the User Experience.

Energy

INTOGENER. Demonstration Study on water flow monitoring and prediction services.

Diagnostics

"Parkinsons’ Decision Support System" Betevé (Barcelona city public television) .
"Neurodegenerative disease biomarkers based on high quality wireless EEG." (NEUMARQ Project. H2020, CORDIS, European Commission).
"El ‘Mobile’ dibuja la hoja de ruta tecnológica inmediata de la sanidad" (www.diariomedico.com).

Health

"Neurodevelopmental Assessment Package for Children".
"Cortical auditory evoked response potentials (ERPS)" , Members (INTERGROWTH-21st Neurodevelopment Package. University of Oxford).
"The INTERGROWTH-21st Project Neurodevelopment Package: A Novel Method for the Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Neurodevelopment in Pre-School Age Children" (Plos.org).

Climate

Jellyfish forecasting with ML (2010-2014). (Multiple papers and R&D references, not a commercial success). R&D references:

"Prediction model of jellyfish blooms based in sea surface temperature and salinity and other water quality indicators" (Cite Seer X).
"Jellyfish prediction of occurrence from remote sensing data and a non-linear pattern recognition approach" (The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System).

Image processing

Optical data, SAR, Thermal, Lidar, drone, Scatterometer etc.

Machine Learning

Deep learning, classifier ensembles, classification performance evaluation (ROC, AUC, CFV), kernel machines, evolutionary computation.

R&D on new retrieval algorithms

15 years of experience in ML algorithms applied successfully on the top of our Earth Observation processing lines.

Data sources integration

Capacity of integrating and make interoperable multiple and heterogeneous data sources (EO and non EO data) to fulfill standards and customer expectations.

Capacity building

Flexible and fast customization of services already services already in place providing solutions to customer specific needs.

Starlab's Quality Policy is to implement all the necessary processes and procedures to ensure that excellence is achieved in our R&D and that it has a measurable impact on society in the form of technologies, products and services with satisfied clients.

Senior management of Starlab guarantees that the quality policy is appropriate to our purpose and to comply with requirements to apply the current regulatory requirements in all our activities and continually improve the effectiveness of the quality management system,relation with stakeholders ,and the customer satisfaction.

Mission

Starlab's mission is to convert science into breakthrough technologies with a profound and positive impact on society.

Vision

Starlab's vision is to be a referring in the World, in the development of new technologies.

Values

Start with a real important problem.
Demo or die.
One little step at the time, but always forward.
Work hard, be humble and seek perfection.
Worship Creativity, Interdisciplinarity, Quality and Excellence.
Build for others and leave a trace. Be concise.
Be honest with yourself and others.
Don’t work alone. Be a team player.
Read and never stop learning.
Have fun: life is short, at least for now.
Break the rules. Innovate.

Our formula

Scientific excellence - check out our Publications.