Neural Correlates of Consciousness and the Creativity of a Wandering Mind by Filip VAN OPSTAL

Filip Van Opstal is an Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the university of Amsterdam. He studied Experimental and Theoretical Psychology at Ghent University and did his postdoctoral work at Ghent University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and at Neurospin in Paris. Before taking up his present position, he was a Guest Professor at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts and a specially appointed Assistant Professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center and Institute for Academic Initiatives of Osaka University. He has published widely on various aspects of human cognition including numerical cognition, cognitive control, metacognition and consciousness. 

Nathan Faivre obtained his PhD from the École normale supérieure under the supervision of Sid Kouider. He then pursued postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) with Christof Koch, and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with Olaf Blanke.After two years at the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne in Paris, he is now a Research Director at the LPNC, where he co-leads the Consciousness, Memory, and Metacognition team. His current research primarily focuses on Volta, an ERC-funded project investigating the electrophysiological and electrochemical bases of perceptual consciousness.

Supported by the GATES project (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS), funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030