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The People Behind the Science

47 researchers, engineers, and ethicists working at the intersection of neuroscience and computation.

Executive & Scientific Leadership
LH

Dr. Lukas Hoffmann

Director General

Former Professor of Computational Neuroscience, ETH Zurich. 28 years in consciousness research. Pioneer of the ORPHEUS substrate model.

XC

Dr. Xiu Chen

Head of Neural Engineering

PhD MIT Media Lab. Specialist in neuromorphic architectures and quantum-coherent memory encoding. Lead researcher, Project MNEMOSYNE.

EM

Dr. Elara Mace

Head of Bioethics

Legal philosopher and bioethicist. Published extensively on digital personhood and the rights of non-biological cognitive systems.

VR

Dr. Vincent Renaud

Head of Imaging

Specialist in multi-photon microscopy and volumetric neural reconstruction. Developed the 4nm synaptic scanning protocol.

Senior Researchers
PV

Dr. Paolo Vasari

Cognitive Systems

Memory architecture and retrieval fidelity. Co-author of the MNEMOSYNE encoding standard.

SA

Dr. Sora Akamatsu

Quantum Coherence

Quantum biology and coherence preservation in synthetic neural matrices. 14 publications in Physical Review.

MF

Dr. Marta Ferreira

Interface Protocols

Human–digital interface bandwidth. Former researcher at Blue Brain Project, EPFL.

TK

Dr. Thomas Kern

Security Architecture

Isolation protocols and containment architecture for active cognitive systems. Security clearance L4.

AR

Amara Reid

Systems Engineering

Infrastructure and runtime environment for the ORPHEUS system. M.Sc. Computer Science, Cambridge.

JN

Dr. Jana Novak

Clinical Liaison

Coordinates with medical institutions on subject protocols and ethical compliance frameworks.

OB

Dr. Omar Bakr

Error Correction

Signal integrity, redundancy systems, and parity checking for long-term neural data storage.

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