Dr Steven Laureys, MD, PhD
Neuroscientist, Head of BeSophro Scientific Advisory Board
Steven Laureys, MD PhD, is an award-winning neurologist and neuroscientist, a father of five and our Head of Scientific Advisory Board at BeSophro. He is recognised worldwide as a leading clinician and researcher in the field of neurology, brain plasticity, consciousness and neuromodulation. He is head of the GIGA Consciousness Research Unit and Brain Clinic of the University and University Hospital of Liège in Belgium, and a professor at the CERVO Brain Centre at Laval University, Canada.
Professor Laureys has achieved awards from the European Academy of Neurology, the European Academy of Sciences, the German Max Planck Society and the US Society of Cognitive Neuroscience. He is the former president of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and has published over 500 scientific articles on the workings of the human mind. Steven is also an International Bestselling Author, contributing to popularising brain science notably through his most recent title in English “The No-nonsense Meditation Book: A Scientist’s Guide To The Power of Meditation”.