Peter Dayan did his PhD in Edinburgh, postdocs at the Salk Institute and Toronto. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and was a founding faculty member of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL, which he then ran for 15
years.

He is currently a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and a Professor at the University of Tübingen. His interests include affective decision making and neural reinforcement learning.

Denis Jabaudon is currently a professor at the University of Geneva, the Director of the Geneva University Neurocenter, and also practices as a clinical neurologist at Geneva University Hospital. His work is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council (Advanced grant). Pr. Jabaudon’s research focuses on understanding how genetic and input-dependent mechanisms interact to control neuronal circuit assembly during cortical development. His laboratory has identified key mechanisms underlying the generation of neuronal diversity during corticogenesis, including showing that electric properties of cortical progenitors are instrumental to generate different types of neurons, identifying sequential molecular steps involved in cortical neuron generation, and revealing that cortical progenitors retain the ability to generate normally previously-born neurons. Denis Jabaudon is FENS KAVLI network of excellence alumnus and his research has earned him several awards including the Cloetta prize and Robert Bing Prize .