Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). She has been president of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology and founding vice-president of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX). From April 2013 she was a member of the European Research Council and from January 2014 and December 2016 one of its vice-presidents. Since 2016 she has been a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She is chair of the scientific and technical committee of the State Research Agency and vice-chair of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee. She leads the SAP (Speech Acquisition and Processing) Research Group at the Brain and Cognition Center of the UPF.

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Her scientific interests focus on understanding the brain mechanisms that make language learning possible, especially in bilingual contexts. Her studies on how infants growing up in bilingual environments learn languages have been pioneering in the field. Her research is characterized by interdisciplinary work, combining fundamental concepts from psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics.

Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a neuroscientist and board-certified pediatrician, she studies how socioeconomic inequality relates to children's cognitive and brain development. Her work examines socioeconomic disparities in cognitive development, as well as brain structure and function, across infancy, childhood and adolescence.

Dr. Noble has funding from the NIH and more than a dozen private foundations, and is one of the principal investigators of Baby’s First Years, the first clinical trial of poverty reduction in early childhood. She received her undergraduate, graduate and medical degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the recipient of the Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, the American Psychological Association award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Her TED talk has received more than 2 million views to date, and her work has received worldwide attention in the popular press.

Michael C. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994, under the mentorship of Robert and Elizabeth Bjork. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience with Art Shimamura at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Psychology faculty at the University of Oregon, where he rose to Full Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2007, Anderson moved the Memory Control Lab to the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he accepted a Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, before finally moving to the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England in the Autumn of 2009. Dr. Anderson has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University with John Gabrieli, is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and is on the governing board of the Psychonomics Society. Dr. Anderson's research on memory control has been featured in Newsweek, US News and World Report, the New York Times, CNN, BBC World News, and the New Scientist.

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His scientific interests include the cognitive and neural bases of long-term memory, memory control and motivated forgetting, inhibitory proceses of memory, attention, and action, mechanisms of cognitive control, processes involving incidental forgetting, transference between memory research and PTSD theory and treatment, mnemonic attention and semantic working memory, and individual differences in controlling unwanted memories plus their relationship with clinical disorders.

SEPEX emerging talent award