本次会议面向来自不同国家和地区的、脑科学和人工智能领域的博士、博士后及其他青年学者。论坛涵盖了脑与智能科学的多个前沿主题，如计算神经科学、大脑网络模型、智慧医疗等，邀请了来自复旦大学、剑桥大学、悉尼大学、柏林夏洛蒂医学院及昆士兰大学等五所高校的杰出青年学者做学术报告，并设置了海报展示的环节，为青年学者提供了与专家交流及展示自己的研究成果和想法，获得同行反馈的机会，同时也为青年学者之间寻找潜在的国际合作者以启动创新研究项目搭建了一个平台。

This conference is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and other young scholars from different countries and regions in the fields of brain science and artificial intelligence. The forum covers multiple interdisciplinary topics in brain and intelligent sciences, such as computational neuroscience, brain network modeling, and intelligent healthcare. It features distinguished young scholars from Fudan University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Sydney, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the University of Queensland, who will present academic reports, and also includes a poster presentation session, providing young scholars with opportunities to interact with experts, showcase their research findings and ideas, and receive feedback from peers. Additionally, it serves as a platform for young scholars to identify potential international collaborators and initiate innovative research projects.

Dr. Assem is a Research Associate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow in Neuroscience at Murray Edwards college. He has been recently awarded the Wellcome Trust Early Career Award and is the recipient of the 11th Frith Prize from the Experimental Psychology Society for his PhD work. His research investigates the brain basis of human intelligence. Specifically, he investigates how a core multiple-demand (MD) circuit in the human brain organises our thoughts and behaviour. His research stands out for its anatomical precision, employing state of the art brain imaging approaches (Human Connectome Project style fMRI, intracranial EEG and more recently concurrent TMS-fMRI). Dr Assem is multidisciplinary trained in medicine (Alexandria University, Egypt), biomedical engineering at (Bogazici University, Turkey and MIT, US), and cognitive neuroscience (Cambridge). In parallel, since 2015, he has been involved in coordinating both the Egyptian and International Brain Bee competitions, the neuroscience olympiads for high school students.

I am a final year PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, supervised by Prof. Michael Anderson, associated with Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. My doctoral research explores the intersection of memory and emotional regulation under states of threat. Using a diversity of methods, spanning neuroimaging, behavioral studies, and computational modeling, I investigate the potential role of explicit emotional regulation in Pavlovian fear extinction. My research offers novel insights into memory suppression's potential role in facilitating fear responses during extinction, with potential theoretical implications for century old cognitive theories, and practical implications for anxiety and PTSD treatments.

I am a PhD student at the University of Cambridge in Medical Sciences and Cognitive Neuroscience. My research uses non-invasive neuroimaging (EEG and MEG) to bridge between psycholinguistics and neuroscientific research on human language comprehension. I have presented my work on neuroimaging applications in the study of language function at local and international conferences. My current projects focus on the mechanisms of understanding meaning (semantics) from ambiguous speech.

I am a postdoctoral scientist and psychiatry resident in the Psychiatric University Hospital Charité at St. Hedwig-Hospital in Berlin. As head of the Virtual Reality (VR) research group, I am Principal Investigator of several studies in this field, with a special focus on VR-based therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for patients with alcohol use disorder. 

Since March 2023, I am a fellow of the BIH Charité Junior Digital Clinician Scientist Program. In 2018, I completed a research internship at the Brain and Mind Research Institute of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. This year I will do a research exchange in South Korea as part of a DFGfunded international research cooperation with the Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. To establish international collaborations, as would be possible through the BISA Young Scientist Forum, has always been of great interest and importance to me.

Ersin Ersözlü studied between 2013-2019 medicine at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University, including the practical last year at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich through an Erasmus+ Internship Program, where his interest and insight of clinical neuroscience has further grown. He started his medical doctorate on the topic “functional resting-state alterations in relation to lifetime experiences in participants with Alzheimer’s disease” at the LMU Munich after completing his medical degree. He then began to work in the department of geriatric psychiatry and developmental disorders in kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum Munich-East, a teaching hospital of LMU Munich, where he worked as resident physician for three years. Since September 2023, he continues his residency in psychiatry, working as study physician and scientific staff in the outpatient clinic for geriatric psychiatry of the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy in the Campus Benjamin Franklin and Campus Berlin Buch at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

I’m Hakimeh Pourakbari Aslsardroud, from

Iran, and currently in the third year of my PhD journey. I am a committed engineer and researcher specializing in Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation. My journey began with a foundation in Mechanical Engineering, followed by a Master's in Mechatronics Engineering, leading me to pursue a Ph.D. at the esteemed Charité Berlin.

I am dedicated to uncovering insights into the underlying mechanisms of inhibitory networks in Parkinson's disease through the integration of LFP (Local Field Potentials) and MEG (Magnetoencephalography) techniques. My aim

is to contribute to our collective understanding of this complex neurological condition.

September 2017, Dual Study Electrical Engineering B.Eng.

March 2020, Computational Neuroscience M.Sc. Technical University Berlin

Since 2020, PhD with Prof. Dr. med. Wolf-Julian Neumann “Movement Decoding for electrophysiology-based intelligent adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease”

Rachael is a PhD student at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is interested in using basic science to understand the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative processes, particularly in Alzheimer’s Disease. Key research themes being explored in her PhD include blood-based biomarkers, neuroinflammation and vascular pathology.  

As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney's Biomedical Engineering faculty, I specialize in developing innovative assistive devices for people with cerebral palsy. With a track record of published research papers and notable contributions to the field, I am dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enhance the quality of life for those with neurological disorders. Prior to my current role, I spearheaded the development of a gene and drug-eluting stent, demonstrating my proficiency in translating research findings into tangible solutions with real-world impact.

I am a year 3 PhD student at the University

of Sydney. My research focuses on validating deep learning methods for Fiber Orientation Distribution enhancement in clinical applications, such as fixel-based analysis.

Tao Chen holds a Master of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Now, he is a current Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sydney, supervised by Professor Muireann Irish, a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the previous president of the Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Tao is dedicated to exploring flexibility in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders through dynamic, causal, and network analyses, utilizing multimodal brain imaging, Experience Sampling Methods (ESM), and behavioral experiments. Tao has already published >10 papers as first author in prestigious journals, including Clinical Psychological Science, Journal of Affective Disorders, and Schizophrenia Research. He is a reviewer for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuropsychologia, Psychology, Health & Medicine, and Personality and Individual Differences.

Caixia Lin received a Bachelor of Medicine from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2015 and an MSc from Peking Union Medical College in 2018. After that, she joined the Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory headed by Professor Pankaj Sah for a PhD study at Queensland Brain Institute, the University of Queensland. She obtained her PhD in 2022. Since then, she has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Sah lab. Her research aims to investigate the neural circuits related to movement disorders.

Montana completed her honours degree at the University of Queensland receiving first class honours and the university medal for her achievements. She used sophisticated imaging techniques to investigate the use of optogenetic and pharmacological methods to induce sleep. She then began her PhD at the Queensland Brain Institute under the supervision of Dr Matilde Balbi, where she is investigating how neuromodulatory tools can influence neuronal network patterns and behaviour in health and disease. Throughout her PhD she has been the recipient of several awards including the Alastair Rushworth Research Fund, and Bionics QLD Young Neuroscientist Prize. Her research uses a wide range of techniques including widefield cortical imaging, in vivo electrophysiology recordings, and behavioural assessments in order to further our understanding of the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation.