Esther B. E. Becker, PhD, is Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and leads the Cerebellar Disease Group in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Her research focuses on the genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying diseases of the cerebellum with a particular focus on cerebellar ataxia. Dr. Becker has been one of the pioneers of generating cerebellar neurons and organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Dr. Timothy Ebner, M.D./Ph.D. is professor and Head of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. He presently holds the Max E. and Mary LaDue Pickworth Endowed Chair in Neuroscience. Dr. Ebner has published extensively on how information is represented spatially and temporally in populations of neurons in the cerebellum and motor cortex using electrophysiology and optical imaging techniques.

Paul Mathews, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at UCLA and a Principal Investigator at the Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA. His research focuses on cellular and circuit mechanisms of neurological disease, integrating human iPSC models, advanced electrophysiology, and behavioral paradigms. In addition to his research, Dr. Mathews is dedicated to graduate education and fostering collaborations that bridge basic neuroscience with translational medicine.

Aasef Shaikh, MD, is the Penni and Stephen Weinberg Chair in Brain Health and Vice Chair for Research in Neurology at University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio. He is Professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University and leads multiple programs including the National VA Parkinson Consortium Center and the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motor Laboratory at the Cleveland VA. Dr Shaikh also serves as Associate Medical Director at the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center. His research integrates neuroscience, neurophysiology, and biomedical engineering to investigate balance, eye movements, and motor control in neurodegenerative diseases, with the goal of developing targeted therapies to restore function and improve brain health.

Cécile Gallea, PhD, is a tenured scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), within the Movement Investigations and Therapeutics team. Her research focuses on cerebellar dysfunction in movement disorders, particularly those affecting hand coordination and fine motor skills. Dr. Gallea explores the role of the cerebellum within the brain's broader motor and cognitive networks. Using advanced neuroimaging and in vivo electrophysiology, she investigates how cerebellar abnormalities contribute to conditions such as dystonia, developmental coordination disorder, congenital mirror movements, essential tremor, and Parkinson’s disease.

Mario Manto, MD, PhD, is the initiator and founding member of the Society for Research of the Cerebellum (SRC) and founding member of the Society for Research of the Cerebellum and Ataxias (SRCA). He is also the founding editor of the journal The Cerebellum and the current Editor-in-Chief. He is Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroanatomy at the University of Mons (Belgium). Dr. Manto has (co-)authored several books on the cerebellum. He is ranked amongst the 10 highly ranked scholars (top 0.05%) on the cerebellum by ScholarGPS.

Nicolas Dupré earned his MD from McGill University (Canada), completed neurology residency training, and obtained neurogenetics fellowships at McGill and Harvard. His research focuses on neurogenetics, discovering SYNE-1 as the causative gene for cerebellar ataxia ARCA-1 and contributing to TDP-43's role in ALS. He has published over 200 papers, achieved Fellowship in the American Academy of Neurology, leads a specialized neuromuscular clinic and has contributed to the development of several research initiatives and networks.

Giusy Olivito, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, and a researcher at the Ataxia Research Laboratory of the Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS in Rome, directed by Prof. Maria Leggio. For many years, she has been involved in cerebellar research, addressing the role of the cerebellum in cognitive and behavioral functions, with a particular focus on the structure and function of cerebello-cortical circuits.

Ming-Kai Pan, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pharmacology in National Taiwan University College of Medicine, and a physician at the Cerebellar Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch. His research focuses on neural dynamics of cerebellar motor control and also related neural coding abnormalities and therapies in essential tremor and ataxias.