Marcus Kaiser (1977-) was born in Essen, Germany, and studied biology and computer science at Ruhr-University Bochum and Distance University Hagen, respectively. He obtained his PhD at Jacobs University Bremen in 2005 and has been faculty member at Newcastle University and Seoul National University. In 2016, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. He is currently Professor of Neuroinformatics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (http://www.dynamic-connectome.org/).