October 15-17, 2025 — This is an archived version of the Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 website. The original site was hosted at symposium.fchampalimaud.science. See also the Internet Archive for historical snapshots. Download the symposium booklet (PDF).
Wednesday, October 15
Scaling Up
Opening Remarks
Leonor Beleza, President of the Champalimaud Foundation
Whole-brain and whole-body computations for behavior and physiology
Misha B. Ahrens, PhD — Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
Neural manifolds, invariances, and meaning
Juan Álvaro Gallego, PhD — Champalimaud Foundation
Computational approaches towards cognitive motor control
Shreya Saxena, PhD — Yale University
Charting the space of dynamics with hierarchical state-space models
Ayesha Vermani, PhD — Champalimaud Foundation
Flow equivariant cybernetics
T. Anderson Keller, PhD — Harvard University
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Active embodied perception through brain-world loops
Ehud Ahissar, PhD — Weizmann Institute of Science
Embodied intelligence: from connectomes to body models
Bing W. Brunton, PhD — University of Washington
Flash Talks
Rui Xia — University of Cambridge
Rich Pang, PhD