Solange Denervaud obtained a BSc. and MSc. in Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in 2013. She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Lausanne University Hospital, in collaboration with the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, bridging Neuroscience and education (2014-2020). This interest emerged from her first training as a Montessori school teacher (2003-2007). Solange’s research focuses on the impact of the learning environment on the development of core mechanisms of adaptation (i.e., error monitoring, cognitive flexibility, creativity, peer-peer learning) in schoolchildren and teenagers. Lately, her interest has extended to bridging heart and brain signals to investigate adaptive processes in adults. Her work uses a combination of psychophysics, neuropsychology, electroencephalography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Since October 2023, Solange is leading a project at the Swiss Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), federating the different CIBM expertise and techniques into a large research project aiming to break boundaries on education.

Holds a degree in Psychology, a Master’s in Neuroscience, and a PhD in Neuroscience (2013) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychobiology in the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences at UAB, a collaborating lecturer in the Psychology degree at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and a guest lecturer in several master’s programs in the field of neuroscience. She has conducted research stays at national and international institutions such as PRBB, Utrecht University, Ottawa University, and the University of La Sabana (Bogotá). She is a member of the UAB Mental Health Core and coordinates the partnership with the AdSalutem Sleep Institute. Her research focuses on the neuroscience of learning, memory, brain plasticity, and neurodevelopment, participating in various research and knowledge transfer projects in these areas. She has published around fifty papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals and is co-author of the book 10 ideas clave sobre neurociencia y educación.

Adele Diamond is the Canada Research Chair Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College Phi Beta Kappa (in Sociology-Anthropology & Psychology), her Ph.D. from Harvard (in Developmental Psychology), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Medical School in Neuroanatomy.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been listed as one the 15 most influential neuroscientists in the world.
Prof. Diamond helped pioneer the now flourishing field of "developmental cognitive neuroscience" and is one of the world leaders on executive functions, self-regulation, and self-control. Her discoveries have improved treatment for medical disorders (ADHD & PKU) and impacted education worldwide, improving millions of children’s lives.
She offers a markedly different perspective from mainstream education in hypothesizing that focusing exclusively on training cognitive skills is less efficient, and ultimately less successful, than also addressing children’s emotional, social, spiritual, and physical needs. She has championed the roles of play, music, dance, storytelling, and physical activity in improving executive functions and academic and mental health outcomes.
Prof. Diamond is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association, the International Mind, Brain and Education Society’s Translation Award (the highest award that society gives) and an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University.

Doctor in Biology, director of the UB-EDU1st Neuroeducation Chair and professor and researcher of the Biomedical, Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics Section of the University of Barcelona. His professional and academic career has focused on developmental genetics and neuroscience, and their relationship to learning processes. He has also been a researcher at the University of Oxford and has spent time at other universities and research centers in Europe and the United States. Author of around seventy scientific articles and twenty-six essay and science outreach books, many of them focused on neuroeducation. He collaborates in various media, where he has published more than 700 works. Advisor on neuroeducation issues of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. In 2010 he won the European Award for Scientific Dissemination, in 2018 the Teaching Award for his contribution to neuroeducation, in 2019 the Distinction from the Faculty of Doctors of the University of Barcelona and in 2021 the ASIRE award for the activities of the Neuroeducation Chair.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., is director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and chief of the Division of Cognitive Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He is an associate dean for clinical and translational research and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

Dr. Pascual-Leone received both his M.D. and his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. Following an internship in medicine at Staedtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe in Germany and residency in internal medicine at Hospital Universitario de Valencia in Spain, Dr. Pascual-Leone completed a neurology residency at the University of Minnesota and then trained in clinical neurophysiology and human motor control at the University of Minnesota and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After several years at the Cajal Institute of the Spanish Research Council, he joined BIDMC and HMS in 1997.

Dr. Pascual-Leone’s research aims to understand the mechanisms that control brain plasticity across the lifespan to be able to modify them to produce optimal patient behavioral outcomes, prevent age related cognitive decline, reduce the risk for dementia, and minimize the impact of neurodevelopmental disorders. He is a world leader in the development, research, clinical application, and teaching of a noninvasive technology called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). TMS uses magnetic fields to stimulate or suppress specific nerve cell activities, or pathways, in the brain. His research has provided evidence for the efficacy of TMS for the treatment of various neurologic and psychiatric conditions including epilepsy, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, chronic pain, autism, and drug-resistant depression.

Through Harvard’s Continuing Medical Education Program, Dr. Pascual-Leone and the Berenson-Allen Center offer the longest-running medical education course in the world in noninvasive brain stimulation: to date, he has helped to train more than 900 clinician-scientists from around the world. He also directs the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation Fellowship in the Clinical Neurosciences.

Dr. Pascual-Leone has authored more than 750 scientific papers as well as several books and is listed as the inventor on several patents. His work is highly regarded for its innovation and quality and is often cited. Thompson Reuters has designated Dr. Pascual-Leone a ‘most highly cited author’ and his work ranks first for citations in the field of brain stimulation for the past 20 year period. Dr. Pascual-Leone has also been recognized as one of World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, and one of the world’s top 15 neuroscience researchers. He is the director of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University and the scientific director of the Barcelona Brain Health Initiative. Dr. Pascual-Leone was recognized with a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) from the NIH and has received various other distinctions, including the Daniel Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award from HMS. He has also been honored with many international award for both his research and teaching including the Ramon y Cajal Award from the International Neuropsychiatric Association, the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and the Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize from the Fondation Ipsen in France. He is an elected member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Science. In addition, he is a member of number of medical societies and holds leadership positions in many, including the American Neurological Association, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and the American Academy of Neurology. His work also has wide general public appeal and outreach through dissemination in articles in the lay press including TIME Magazine, Newsweek, New Scientist, National Geographic, and television and radio documentaries that have been featured on Scientific American, 60 Minutes, CNN, the BBC and the Discovery Channel, and several books (e.g. Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself ; John E. Robison, Switched On). Most recently Dr. Pascual-Leone has co-authored with Alvaro Fernandez and David Bartres-Faz the book El Cerebro que Cura (Plataforma Editorial, 2019).

Gustavo Deco is an ICREA Research Professor, a highly prestigious distinction, and Full Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where he leads the Computational Neuroscience group. He was also Director of the Center of Brain and Cognition from 2001 to 2021 (UPF). In 1987 he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on Relativistic Atomic Collisions. In 1987, he was a postdoc at the University of Bordeaux in France. From 1988 to 1990, he obtained a postdoc of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Giessen in Germany. From 1990 to 2003, he leads the Computational Neuroscience Group at Siemens Corporate Research Center in Munich, Germany. He obtained in 1997 his Habilitation (maximal academical degree in Germany) in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) at the Technical University of Munich for his thesis on Neural Learning. In 2001, he received his PhD in Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2012, he received an ERC Advanced Grant and recently in 2022 he received an ERC Synergy Grant. The ERC grants mentioned are European Union funding schemes with very high scientific prestige.