Speaker

Carlos Ribeiro is a Senior Group Leader at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, and a founding member of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Trained at the Biozentrum in Basel and the IMP in Vienna, his early work focused on organogenesis and neural circuit development. His lab works at the interface of behavior, metabolism, microbiome, and physiology to uncover conserved mechanisms that regulate how organisms decide what to eat and how these decisions impact their health and wellbeing. He has significantly advanced our understanding of how nutrients, organismal physiology, and reproductive states influence nutrient selection through neuronal circuits and molecular mechanisms. More recently, his laboratory has characterized how specific gut microbes interact metabolically to regulate food cravings and reproduction. Carlos is an elected member of EMBO and has taken on international leadership roles, including serving as Secretary General of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS). He has been awarded numerous prestigious grants to support his groundbreaking research. Currently, he is actively involved in multiple international consortia, such as the Fly Cell Atlas and large-scale connectome projects, mapping out cellular and neuronal circuits that regulate behavior—work that will lay the foundation for future discoveries across multiple scientific disciplines.

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