Professor Gustavo Deco was the founding Director of the Center of Brain and Cognition (2001-21) and now leads the Computational Neuroscience group within the Center at the Pompeu Fabra University. He is research professor at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and holds three doctorates in physics (1987, University of Rosario), Computer Science (Habilitation 1997, Technical University of Munich) and psychology (2001, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich). His research is funded by a variety of sources including ERC Advanced Grant (2012-18) and ERC Synergy Grant (2022-28). He has published four books and over 550 scientific papers.
Professor Morten L Kringelbach is the founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Center for Music in the Brain, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His prizewinning research has helped elucidate the brain systems driven by hedonic and eudaimonic stimuli such as, for example, infants, food, psychedelics and music. He has published fourteen books, and over 400 scientific papers, chapters and other articles and his research features regularly in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television.