Meet the Programme Committee of the FENS Forum 2024!

24 January 2023

FENS News, Neuroscience News

FENS is delighted to announce the composition of the FENS Forum 2024 Programme Committee! 

Discover who will be preparing the scientific programme of the next edition of the Forum, taking place on 25-29 June 2024 in Vienna, Austria. 

Chaired by Liset Menendez de la Prida (ES), the Programme Committee will independently prepare and supervise the FENS Forum’s scientific programme and select the plenary and special lecturers, symposia and technical workshops. 

“After having experienced a fantastic FENS Forum in Paris in 2022, I am very much looking forward to chairing the Programme Committee for the next meeting in Vienna. We will focus our joint efforts on showcasing different scientific views and exploring new horizons at the interface between emerging topics in neuroscience. We look forward to integrating the contribution of the entire community and to developing an exciting and diverse programme for FENS Forum 2024 in Vienna.” (Liset M. de la Prida) 

The FENS Forum 2024 Programme Committee:  

  • Liset Menendez de la Prida, Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain – Chair
  • Sigismund Huck, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria – Chair of the Host Society Committee 
  • Anna Falk, Lund University, Karolinska Institutet, Lund, Sweden
  • Martin Giurfa, University Paul Sabatier, Institut Universitaire de France, Toulouse, France
  • Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • Balázs Hangya, Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 
  • Eloisa Herrera, Neurosciences Institute, Alicante, Spain
  • Hajime Hirase, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 
  • Ellen Lumpkin, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Michela Matteoli, Humanitas University, CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy 
  • Jean Christophe Poncer, Institut du Fer à Moulin, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France
  • Vincent Prévot, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Lille, France 
  • Ana Cristina Rego, University of Coimbra, President of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN), Coimbra, Portugal 
  • Tomás Ryan, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 
  • Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany 
  • Emre Yaksi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, and Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

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