Gustavo Deco (born in 1961 in Argentina) is Research Professor from the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) where he is leading the Computational Neuroscience group at the Department of Technology and he is also director of the doctoral program in Computer Science and Digital Communication. He studied Physics at the National University of Rosario (Argentina) where he received his diploma degree in Theoretical Atomic Physics. In 1987, he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics for his thesis on Relativistic Atomic Collisions. In 1987, he was a post doctoral fellow at the University of Bordeaux in France. In the period from 1988 to 1990, he obtained a post doctoral position of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Giessen in Germany. From 1990 to 2003, he has been with the Neural Computing Section at the Siemens Corporate Research Center in Munich, Germany, where he leaded the Computational Neuroscience Group. He has obtained in 1997 his habilitation (maximal academical degree in Germany) in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) at the Technical University of Munich for his thesis on Neural Learning. In 2001, he received his PhD in Psychology (Dr. phil.) for his thesis on Visual Attention at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich. He was Lecturer at the University of Rosario, Frankfurt and Munich. Since 1998 he is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Munich and Honorar Professor at the University of Rosario, and since 2001 Invited Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich. Since 2001 he is also McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience of the University of Oxford. In 2001 he was awarded by the international price of Siemens "Inventor of the Year" for his contribution in statistical learning, models of visual perception, and fMRI based diagnosis of neuropsychiatric diseases. His research interest includes computational neuroscience, neuropsycholgy, psycholinguistics, biological networks, statistical formulation of neural networks, and chaos theory. He has published three books, more than 103 papers in International Journals, 153 papers in International Conferences and 19 book chapters. He has also 48 patents in Europe, USA, Canada and Japan. Dr. Deco is reviewer for several international Journals, Conferences and European Research Councils, member of a few professional organizations and he is often invited as Lecturer in conferences, workshops and seminars as a guest speaker.