Alessandro E.P. Villa received M.Sc. degrees in natural science from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1988 he received a PhD degree from the Faculty of Science, UNIL. He holds a Full Professorship in Neuroscience with the University Grenoble Alpes (France) and he is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Neuroeconomics with UNIL. Prof. Villa was re-elected the President of the European Neural Network Society for two terms and elected a Full Member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, in the Engineering section. His research focuses on neural coding, machine learning, neural networks, electrophysiology, and decision-making.