EBRAINS Summit 2025

The Summit programme reflected the wide scope of the EBRAINS ecosystem, with sessions dedicated to medical data, clinical innovation, neurology standards, brain modelling and simulation, future computing, and advances in AI for neuroscience.

New Full Member

The Summit fostered insightful discussions and new collaborations. The onboarding of new full member University of Helsinki was facilitated by the many networking opportunities that the event provided.

Programme

The EBRAINS Summit 2025 offered a diverse programme designed for researchers, institutions, innovators, and decision-makers. Taking place over four days in Brussels, the event included keynote talks, open discussions, poster sessions, live demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. The EBRAINS Summit exhibition area - a lively space that connected participants with advanced tools, research, and infrastructure - was open from 9-11 December.

Speakers

From breakthrough researchers and policymakers to neurotech innovators, the EBRAINS Summit 2025 brought together thought leaders from across Europe and beyond.

Best Abstracts Award

The EBRAINS Summit Programme Committee and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility invited researchers interested in open neuroscience to submit high-quality abstracts to the EBRAINS Summit 2025.

The evaluation of the submitted abstracts was strictly based on scientific content and infrastructure relevance. Among the abstracts that were submitted, the Evaluation Committee identified the best abstracts in the following categories:

Best Abstract Award for Neuroscientific and Medical Research

• "Layer-specific cell counts in BigBrain – decomposing cortex-wide numbers based on cytoarchitectonics" by Sebastian Bludau, Timo Dickscheid, Anna Steffens, Christian Schiffer, Eric Upschulte and Katrin Amunts

Best Abstract Award for Methodological developments, technology, and AI applications in neuroscience

• "bids2ebrains: Automating BIDS Dataset Registration into the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph" by Renqing Cuomao, Raphaël Gazzotti, Sophia Pieschnik, Oliver Schmid, Peyman Najafi, Andrew Davison, Cyril Pernet and Lyuba Zehl
• "The Virtual Aging Brain: A Scalable Framework of Dopaminergic Modulation" by Amirhossein Esmaeili, Giacomo Preti, Spase Petkoski, Marmaduke Woodman, Meysam Hashemi, Daniele Marinazzo and Viktor Jirsa

User Talks

The EBRAINS User Talks were a platform designed to spotlight the cutting-edge work of researchers leveraging the power of EBRAINS. These sessions recognized scientific achievements that have effectively integrated EBRAINS tools, data, and services—giving researchers the opportunity to share their insights, experiences, and results. By showcasing the breadth and scientific impact of EBRAINS-enabled research, the User Talks aimed to inspire new users and foster meaningful collaboration across the neuroscience community:

• "The 5M-Connectome Dataset: Multimodal Mapping of the Human Brain for Individualised Brain Modelling" by Alessandra Bertoldo
• "A Platform for Human Imaging for Translational Research in Neurological Disorders" by Lorenzo Pini
• "Cohort amortized personalisation: navigating privacy-utility trade-offs in digital twin infrastructure" by Marmaduke Woodman
• "Differential predictability of cognitive profiles from brain structure in older males and females" by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christiane Jockwitz
• "EBRAINS as a Bridge Between Education and Research in Neuroscience: The EITN-EBRAINS Fall School Experience" by Damien Depannemaecker
• "A surface-based probabilistic atlas of human cortical cytoarchitecture" by Douglas Greve
• "Bringing Marmoset to EBRAINS" by Piotr Majka

Aftermovie

Relive highlights from the EBRAINS Summit 2025.