Keynote Speakers
May-Britt Moser
Nobel Prize Winner
Professor in Neurobiology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
May-Britt Moser is interested in the neural basis of spatial location and spatial specifically and cognition more generally. Her work, conducted with Edvard Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit.
Her group is beginning to unravel the functional organization of the grid-cell circuit as well as its contribution to memory formation in the hippocampus.
May-Britt Moser was a co-Founder of the Centre for the Biology of Memory, a Research Council-funded Centre of Excellence from 2003 to 2012, and has taken on the Directorship of the Centre for Neural Computation, with a life time from 2013 to 2022.
Vincent Nijman
Professor in Anthropology
Oxford Brookes University
Vincent Nijman is trained as a biologist and has worked on biodiversity conservation issues in academia and for government and non-government organisations in Europe, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Currently he is employed as a professor in Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University where he leads the Oxford Wildlife Trade Research Group. Besides studying the illegal and legal wildlife trade, Prof Nijman has a keen interest in the conservation of ebony langurs (depicted).
Jens Degett
President of the European Union of Science Jurnalists´ Associations (EUSJA)
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Jens Degett is President of the European Union of Science Jurnalists´Associations (EUSJA) and Chair of the Danish Science Journalists´ Association. He has worked with science journalism and communication for more than 25 years. He was the Executive Director of the European Action in Global Life Sciences (EAGLES) in Madrid 2005-2010, He was Director of the Communication and Information Units at the European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg from 2000 - 2005. Producer and host of the most popular Danish weekly radio programme ”Studie 2000” in Denmark from 1994-2000, he has more than 400 hours of radio and television broadcast experience primary related to health, environment and research. Before his broadcast days, he was responsible for communication with stakeholders at Novo Nordisk. He has a Masters in Biology from University of Copenhagen.
