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As part of the 2024 Universal Women’s Leadership Forum in Strasbourg, France, the President of the European System, Mr Gabriel MVOGO invited Dr Birgitta Dresp to take an active part in the work of this high-level forum.
The entire European Cooperation System team was delighted to receive Dr Birgitta Dresp positive response.
Who is Dr. Birgitta Dresp ?
Born in Berlin, Germany, and currently a Full Research Professor (Directeur de Recherche) with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. Obtained her PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Paris Descartes University in 1991 with the highest distinction summa cum laude. Subsequently joined Prof. Dr. Lothar Spillmann’s lab at the Institut für Biophysik of the Neurozentrum der Universität Freiburg in Germany, where she was appointed as an Associate Researcher in the framework of a grant programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1993. Her scientific interests reside in the field of cognitive science, broadly focusing on human perception, learning, intelligence and biologically or human-inspired Artificial Intelligence (AI). Habilitation in Behavioral Neuroscience and Computational Philosophy with the highest distinction « summa cum laude » at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (now Strasbourg University) in 1998. Author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed multidisciplinary science journals, several science book chapters, acts as an independent scientific expert to the European Commission since 2019, to NATO’s DIANA since 2024, and sits on the Editorial Board of international science journals released by Elsevier, Frontiers, and MDPI.
We are delighted to welcome as one of our moderators Dr Birgitta Dresp, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.
She will be moderating the N3 session on Friday 12 July 2024 at the European Parliament. The theme will be « Women’s Leadership and Political Emergence in Conflict Management ».