Balázs Gulyás is Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to this appointment in 2013, he spent most of his scientific career at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, where he is still a Professor in the Department for Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Neuroscience.  After obtaining his MD degree at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, in 1981, and pursuing further undergraduate studies in physics and philosophy in Budapest, Cambridge and Leuven (BA and MA: 1982 and 1984), he made his PhD in neuroscience at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1988, followed by his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology of the Karolinska Institutet and at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK. Balázs has made pioneering contributions to the field of functional brain mapping with positron emission tomography (PET), in particular to the localisation of cortical areas in the human brain related to visual perceptual functions, visual memory and imagery, olfactory and pheromone-sense functions. More recently, his research focused on molecular neuroimaging with PET, focusing on neurological and psychiatric diseases and their “humanised” murine and primate animal disease models. At Singapore’s newest medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, he – as one of the founding professors of the School – is the scientific director of the “Neuroscience and Mental Health Theme”. He is also the Director of the Centre for Neuroimaging Research at NTU, the lead of the medical thrust of the university's ageing research institute, and co-director of the NTU-RIKEN Joint Research Centre. Balázs has published eleven books, authored over thirty book chapters and contributed to more than 200 research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. He is a member of, among others, the Academia Europaea, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Belgian Academy of Medical Sciences. Concurrent with his appointments at LKCMedicine in Singapore and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, he is an Honorary Professor at the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is one of the founders, if not the founder, of the World Science Forum and brought the series to fruition by leading the organisation of the first five World Science Fora between 2003 and 2011.