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.