IMPRS CoNI Summer School 2026

Confirmed Speakers

Session 1: Evolution of cognition and social behavior
Dr Cathy Crockford	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany and Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, Lyon Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Lyon, France.
Professor Onur Güntürkün	Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
Dr Sofie Valk	Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig Germany and Research Center Juelich, Germany.
Session 2: Evolution of brain structure and function
Professor Christopher Petkov	Carver Trust endowed Professor of Neuroscience Vice Chair for Research, Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, USA.
Professor Rogier Mars	Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Dr Yannick Becker	Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig Germany.
Session 3: Network disorders
Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh	Imperial College London, UK
Dr Stephanie Forkel	Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL.
Professor Friedhelm Christoph Hummel	Brain Mind Institute, SV Neuro X Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, Geneva, CH.
Session 4: Methodological advances in neurostimulation research
Dr Ines Violante	Kings College London, UK.
Dr Elsa Fouragnan	University of Plymouth, UK.
Professor Kim Butts Pauly	Stanford University, USA.
Session5: Methodological advances in neuroimaging research
Professor David Feinberg	UC Berkeley, USA.
Professor Lucia Navarro de Lara	Athinoula Martinos Centre Harvard, MGH, Harvard, USA.
Professor Susie Huang	Athinoula Martinos Centre Harvard, MGH, Harvard, USA.