Pedro is an Emeritus Academician of Cuba with an M.D. (1971), B.Sc. in Mathematics (1973), Ph.D. (1974), and D.Sc. (2011). He is a Professor of Medicine in Havana, of Psychiatry at McGill, and Neuroinformatics at UESTC. He pioneered computerized EEG work in 1969, focusing on EEG equipment, neural modeling, neuroimaging, and statistical learning for disease management. Co-founder of the Cuban Neuroscience Center (1990) and leader of Cuba’s National Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Program since the 1970s, he has driven brain health programs across Cuba and Latin America. Currently, he directs the Cuba-China Laboratory for Neurotechnology and co-directs the Global Brain Consortium

with a PhD in Psychobiology from UFRN and postdoctoral training in Comparative Neuroanatomy. Coordinates the Multicenter Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences and the Experimental Neurology Laboratory at UERN. Research focuses on the neuroanatomy of subcortical nuclei in South American mammals.

PostGraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, Brazilian Physiological Society, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ).
Associate Professor ,Department of Physiological Sciences, Multicenter PostGraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, Brazilian Physiological Society, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Holds a PhD in Biological Sciences (Molecular Pharmacology). Research focuses on Neuropharmacology, Neurophysiology, and the impact of environmental stimuli on brain development and adult behavior.

Worked at Memory Center at PUCRS – Brazil where she helped to describe how reconsolidation occurs in different types of memories. She also worked at the discovery of a
new phase in mnemonic processing that specifically determines the
persistence of inhibitory avoidance memory. Followed by 3 years at the
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) working with spatial memory
and spatial navigation. In 2016, she moved to Natal (Brazil) where my research
emphases are to investigate how previous experiences affect the subsequent
formation and maintenance of memories and what is the biological role of
the reconsolidation.

Mu-ming Poo is the Scientific Director of Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Director of Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology, and Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He studied physics at Tsinghua University in Taiwan and received PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. During 1976-2012, He had served on the faculty of UC Irvine, Yale, Columbia, and UCSD, and UC Berkeley. He was the founding director of Institute of Neuroscience, CAS (1999-2019), and a member of Chinese Academy of Science, Academia Sinica, and Hong Kong Academy of Science, and an international member of US National Academy of Science. He was awarded Ameritec Prize, International Science & Technology Cooperation Award of P. R. China, and Gruber Neuroscience Prize. Poo’s research interest includes axon growth, synaptic plasticity, and the use non-human primates to study higher cognitive functions and human brain disorders. He is the Executive Editor-in-Chief of National Science Review and the editorial board member for many journals, including Neuron and Progress in Neurobiology.

After earning a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2003, postdoctoral research was conducted at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of California, San Diego. Joined CSHL as an Assistant Professor in 2008, later becoming the Robert Lourie Endowed Professor. Research at Westlake University focuses on the cellular and circuit mechanisms of motivated behaviors and metabolic regulation, as well as their dysfunctions in disorders like depression, anxiety, addiction, obesity, and cancer cachexia.

Specializing in qualitative immunohistochemical and quantitative stereological techniques to explore neuroanatomical diversity in vertebrate brains. His research focuses on the glymphatic system and its potential role in the sleep-wake cycle, particularly how it influences non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep across vertebrates.

His research focuses on sleep patterns in emergency response personnel and comparative neuroanatomy and physiology. Currently studying the impact of shift work on sleep and health among ambulance paramedics and emergency room doctors, he also contributes to the South African Society for Sleep and Health (SASSH) basic science committee. With nearly a decade of sleep research experience, his work includes studies with large mammals and the Khoi San people in Namibia. He is a dedicated advocate for sleep health.

Manger Laboratory focuses on minimally disturbed natural ecosystems, with an emphasis on Africa. The research explores the co-evolution of brain and behavior in mammals, including monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. Studies reveal how brain evolution and behavior are shaped by different pressures, with particular insights into the neurological and behavioral aspects of sleep across species from platypuses to elephants.

Her research focuses on antenatal exposures, early brain development, and genetic variability in developmental conditions in Africa. She has served on the UNICEF expert panel and the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group. Prof. Donald is committed to advancing African neuroscience through training and leads a major research and capacity-development initiative in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Neuroscience Institute.

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and heads IITM's Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre and Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre. The medica technologies developed by his group have has impacted over 12 million patients in India and abroad. Since 2020, he has been driving a large-scale multi-disciplinary effort at IITM combining neuroscience, engineering, medicine, and technology, culminating in the setting up of IITM’s Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre. The Centre has developed a world-class high-throughput histology pipeline that processes whole human brains into high-resolution digital images at petabyte-scale. These unique first-in-class data sets of human brains of different types and ages provide an unprecedented high-resolution view of human brains that reveal cellular level details across the entire brain.

Currently working as the Chief Scientific Officer at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) at IIT Madras, India, where his research focuses on understanding human brain development, using neuroanatomical and imaging tools. His Broader research experience and interests encompass systems neuroscience, retinal electrophysiology, and the design of outcome-based curricula in higher education. He completed his Ph.D. in retinal electrophysiology at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and during my postdoctoral training at the Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia, He explored the reorganization of the visual system in non-human primates.

Jayaraj has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Instrumentation and a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He was awarded the silver medal for the best PhD thesis in Electrical Engineering in inter-disciplinary areas of research by Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2011. He has more than 8 years’ experience in medical device development and was the Chief Technologist of Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre, IIT Madras. His invention ARTSENS® - an image free ultrasound technology for vascular screening - was awarded the prestigious National Instruments Engineering Impact Award at NI Week 2015 held in Texas for academic research excellence and for humanitarian causes. Jayaraj developed India’s first quantitative immunoanalyser instrument – the iQuant® Analyser –which is commercially deployed in more than 500 clinical laboratories in the country. He has 5 granted patents (EU, US) and have more than 20 patents filed, and over 160 publications. Jayaraj is currently with the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras and focuses his research on image-free ultrasound for vascular ageing assessment and screening, point of care diagnostics and non-contact physiological monitoring.

Associate professor of neuroanatomy at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Mossoró-RN/Brazil. In 2015, José received his PhD in Psychobiology (Neurophysiology) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and, in 2016, he completed a postdoctoral degree in Comparative Neuroanatomy linked to a scientific project between UFRN and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In recent years, José has carried out important activities linked to the development of postgraduate studies in northeastern Brazil, such as Pro-Rector of Research and Postgraduate Studies at UERN and member of technical research chambers. He is currently coordinator and supervisor of the Multicenter Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences at UERN, as well as coordinator of the Experimental Neurology Laboratory at UERN. His research involves aspects of functional and comparative neuroanatomy. Specifically, he has studied the cytoarchitectonic, neurochemical and connectomic characterization of subcortical nuclei (mainly basal ganglia) of South American mammals.