11 June 2025
From philosophical zombies and the purpose of dreaming, to measuring consciousness like temperature and why brains aren’t computers, in Episode 4 Seth unpacks the idea that our experience of reality – and of ourselves – is a kind of waking dream, a “controlled hallucination”, shaped by prediction, perception, and the body’s primal drive to stay alive.
His theory of what it means to ‘be you’ challenges how we understand perception – and turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
05 June 2025
Wrapping up the 4th Edition of the Mentoring Programme Ciência di Noz Manera
Following intro sessions that happened at schools back in February, nearly 200 8th-grade students from Escola do Alto do Lumiar (Lisboa) and Escola Dr. Azevedo Neves (Amadora) took part in a series of hands-on/minds-on experiments at both the GIMM Foundation and Champalimaud Foundation (CF) in March.
04 June 2025
Many Possible Futures: How Dopamine in the Brain Might Inform AI That Adapts Quickly to Change
The problem with averages
Imagine you’re deciding whether to wait in line for your favourite meal at a busy restaurant or grab a quick snack at the nearest café. Your brain weighs not just how good the meal might be, but also how long it will take to get it.
Champalimaud Open Seminar (COpS)
"AI/Radiomics 2.0: How to Safely Translate Research Results to the Clinics"
Nickolas Papanikolaou, Computational Clinical Imaging Group
"A New Society of Mind"
Joe Paton, Learning Lab
Moderation
Carlos Minutti, Immunoregulation Lab
Venue
Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
29 May 2025
Meet Ardem Patapoutian, who discovered the molecules at the root of our exquisite sense of touch – and won a Nobel for it
“I love talking about the molecular structure [I discovered]”, said Ardem Patapoutian, who leads a lab at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, as he was presenting his work to an audience gathered at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), in Lisbon, last week. “It's very easy for me to talk about it when I have PowerPoint slides, but what if I'm in a restaurant or in a bar and I want to tell someone about how it works? I decided to get a tattoo of the structure and I want to share it with you.”
4th Edition Hands-on Molecular Tools Workshop
The Hands-on Molecular Tools workshop aims to cover the fundamental principles and standard techniques used in Molecular Biology and will be taught by experts from CF, FCT-UNL and FCUL/cE3c.
This course will incorporate theoretical and practical classes, where the participants will acquire experience on RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, PCR, restriction enzyme digestion, electrophoresis, plasmid DNA isolation, as well as, bioinformatics analysis and experimental design of a cloning project.
Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025
The symposium, themed Neuro-Cybernetics at Scale, draws inspiration from the recent advances in AI and machine learning, where scaling has unlocked unprecedented performance. We believe neuroscience may be approaching a similar inflection point. By convening researchers in experimental neuroscience, robotics, machine learning, control theory, and theoretical neuroscience, we aim to explore how ideas of scaling and feedback can shape the future of systems neuroscience.
2nd Botton-Champalimaud International Pancreatic Cancer Conference
The first edition of the Botton-Champalimaud International Pancreatic Conference, hosted at the prestigious Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre, was a landmark event in 2024, bringing together leading experts, researchers, and healthcare professionals from around the world to discuss the latest advancements in pancreatic cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care.
