Stéphanie P. Lacour is full professor at the School of Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from INSA de Lyon, France, and completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University (USA) and the University of Cambridge (UK). She joined EPFL in 2011. She was the founding director of EPFL Neuro X institute – a new interschool department focused on interdisciplinary and translational neuro-research located at EPFL-associated campus – Campus Biotech in Geneva. Since 2025, she is EPFL Vice-President for support to Strategic Initiatives.