Frijda lecture June 26th 2025
Prof. dr. Stéphanie P. Lacour
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
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.
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The Frijda Chair is named after Nico Frijda (1927-2015), who was emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and a pioneer of cognitive science in the Netherlands. Each year, the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center at his alma mater awards this chair to a prominent researcher in the field of brain and cognitive sciences, on the basis of outstanding interdisciplinary achievements.
Earlier recipients of the Frijda Chair:
2024 | Matthias Bethge
University of Tübingen
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2023 | Stephen Maren
Texas A&M University
2022 | Wolf Singer
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Ernst-Strungmann Institute for Neuroscience in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2021 | David Huron
Ohio State University, USA
2020 | Ulman Lindenberger
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
2019 | Greg Siegle
University of Pittsburgh, USA
2018 | Brian Knutson
Stanford University, USA
2017 | Jerome Siegel
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, USA
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2016 | Josh Tenenbaum
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
2015 | Mark T. Wallace
Vanderbilt Brain Institute
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2014 | Micheal MeaneyMcGill University, Canada.
2013 | Christine van Broeckhoven
University of Antwerp, Belgium
2012 | Kevin LaBar
Duke University, USA
2011 | Adele Diamond
University of British Columbia, Canada
2010 | Ernst Fehr
University of Zürich, Switzerland
2009 | Christof Koch
California Institute of Technology, USA
2008 | James McClelland
Stanford University, USA
2007 | Harald Clahsen
University of Essex, UK
2006 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith
University College London, UK
2005 | Michael Tomasello
Max Planck, Leipzig, Germany
2004 | Richard Morris
University of Edinburgh, UK
2003 | Keith Stenning
University of Edinburgh, UK