SAME-NeuroID Seminar with prof. Renaud Jolivet

Seminar Title: From neuroscience to science policy

Last decades have seen glial cells becoming increasingly prominent in our understanding of brain function and diseases. Despite this, we still lack a conceptual framework to understand how glial cells modulate neuronal activity. Prof. Jolivet argues this gap hinders neuroscience and will discuss some of our recent results studying some subtypes of glial cells in that context, in particular microglia, oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes.

In the second part of talk, Prof. Jolivet will briefly reflect on how his scientific career led to work in science policy and security, and how in turn these professional developments helped me in my academic career.

On June 26 at 2:00 PM, Łukasiewicz – PORT will host a seminar as part of the SAME–NeuroID project.

Prof. Renaud B. Jolivet is Professor of Neural Engineering & Computation at the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology at Maastricht University, and retains a courtesy appointment at CERN, the particle physics laboratory.  His work focusses on NeuroAI and on neurotechnologies to interface with the brain.  Prior to working in the Netherlands, Renaud has worked in Switzerland, Japan and the UK.  He has previously served on the boards of the Initiative for Science in Europe, Marie Curie Alumni Association and Organization for Computational Neuroscience, and was a 2023 Neurotech Fellow of the Foresight Institute. He currently is the stakeholder representative for individual researchers and innovators at the European Commission’s ERA Forum, and the Chair of the Science & Technology Committee of EBRAINS, the European research infrastructure for neurosciences. He is a recipient of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Career Award (2022), and of the André Mischke Young Academy of Europe Prize for Science and Policy 2023, and a Fellow of the International Science Council and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

We invite everyone interested in advancements in neurology!