Steven Laureys

Professor Steven Laureys MD PhD, is director of the Coma Science Group (http://www.comascience.org) at the Neurology Department and Cyclotron Research Centre of the University Hospital and University of Liège, Belgium. He is board-certified in neurology and in palliative medicine and published >370 scientific papers (cited >8400 times; H-index 53) in top journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical Practice and Nature Neuroscience. His team assesses the recovery of neurological disability and neuronal plasticity in acquired brain injury and altered states of consciousness (e.g., comatose, “vegetative”/unresponsive, minimally conscious and locked-in syndromes) confronting clinical expertise and bedside behavioral evaluation with multimodal neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies; also dealing with the ethical implications of this translational clinical research. He is chair of the European Neurological Society committee on disorders of consciousness and recipient of the William James Prize (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) and Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award.