Professor Renaud Jolivet is Full Professor at the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology, and Chair of Neural Engineering & Computation at Maastricht University.  He is the nominated representative for individual researchers and innovators at the European Commission’s ERA Forum, and an elected member of the Board of Directors at the Organization for Computational Neuroscience.  He is a member of the Science & Technology Committee of EBRAINS, the European research infrastructure for neurosciences, and is a 2023 Neurotech Fellow of the Foresight Institute.  He also holds a courtesy appointment at CERN, the particle physics laboratory.  He has previously served in the boards of the Initiative for Science in Europe and Marie Curie Alumni Association.  He has worked in Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK.  His work focusses on the brain’s heterocellularity and on neurotechnologies to interface with brain tissue.