Kerstin Preuschoff is a multi-disciplinary scientist and educator with a passion for communicating science across disciplines and audiences. She first studied electrical engineering in Berlin before obtaining her PhD in computation and neural systems from Caltech. She is currently an associate professor of neurofinance at the University of Geneva. Her research includes all aspects of decision-making - from the neuroscience behind it, to its impact on financial markets. Her primary research focus is the neural basis of decision making under risk and combines theoretical and experimental approaches from neuroscience, financial economics, and psychology.

Dr Ewa Lombard holds a PhD in Neuroscience of learning and reward, and a double MSc in Management. Formerly Assistant Professor at Montpellier Business School, she is an experienced teacher (Neuroscience of Finance, Strategic Foresight, Research Project Management) and member of the WEF Global Foresight Network. 

Her research work investigates sustainable decisions in various contexts, from ethics in wealth managers, through voluntary participation in hackathons for SDGs, to future thinking as an intervention for long-term responsible decisions. 

Jean-Paul is a Ph.D. candidate in finance at the University of Geneva. He is part of the GFRI (Geneva Finance Research Institute) and the CISA (Interfacultary Center for Affective Sciences). His research and interests lie at the intersection of sustainability and financial decision-making, more precisely he aims at understanding what makes a sustainable mindset.

Before starting his PhD at UNIGE in December 2023, Jean-Paul had graduated with a MSc. in wealth management from UNIGE in 2023, a MSc. in applied economics specialized in public policies from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2020, and a BSc. in economics with a minor in political sciences and international affairs from the Lebanese American University in 2018.

Ramona is an MSc student in Neuroscience at the University of Geneva. Her research interests focus on the neural mechanisms of decision-making, collective problem-solving, and the neuroscience of music.

Before joining the University of Geneva, Ramona completed an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (Swansea University), an MSc in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (American College of Thessaloniki), and a BSc in Biology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Beyond neuroscience, she has extensive training in classical music theory and guitar performance, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to cognition, emotion and creativity.

Emirhan Serbest is an MSc student in Neuroscience at the University of Geneva, having completed his B.A. in Psychology at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Istanbul. 

His academic interest lies in exploring how decision-making emerges in the human brain and how similar mechanisms can be effectively modeled in artificial systems.