Nicolas Meirhaeghe [“Mérag”] is a tenured CNRS researcher working at the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT) within the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University. Initially trained as an aerospace engineer at Supaéro and Caltech, Nicolas received his PhD in computational systems neurosciences from MIT, working under the guidance of Mehrdad Jazayeri from 2016 to 2021. He then completed his postdoctoral training as an EMBO and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the team of Thomas Brochier at the INT from 2021 to 2025, before being recruited as a CNRS researcher in 2025.