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Angeliki Damilou is a developmental neuroscientist with a background in psychology. Angeliki obtained her MSc Diploma in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences at King’s College London and currently she is finishing her PhD studies at the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich. Angeliki’s PhD research aims to uncover developmental mechanisms that shape the typical brain connectivity in order to identify critical periods that lead to Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis.

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Michael Halassa is a physician-scientist and associate professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. His work focuses on understanding how the brain controls thoughts and actions based on an internal model of the world. His PhD work at the University of Pennsylvania was focused on cellular neuroscience and his postdoctoral work at MIT was focused on systems neuroscience. Halassa also spends some of his time performing clinical work, focused on treatment of psychotic disorders. His ultimate goal is to come up with a circuit-based computational description of inference and belief updating that would explain how psychotic states arise and provide a clear path towards intervention.