Julie Ottoy is a postdoctoral fellow at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on the application of multi-modal imaging techniques (amyloid and tau PET, diffusion-weighted MRI and functional MRI) aiming at unravelling the pathophysiological mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and its complex interplay with cerebrovascular disease. Dr. Ottoy is funded by the Alzheimer's Association.

Prof. Tiago Outeiro graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Porto and was an Erasmus student at the University of Leeds in the UK. Prof. Outeiro did his PhD thesis at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical research – MIT. Prof. Outeiro was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology of the Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School and then directed the Cell and Molecular Neuroscience Unit at IMM, Lisbon, from 2007 to 2014. Currently, Prof. Outeiro is Full Professor and the Director of the Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration at the University Medical Center Goettingen, in Germany. Prof. Outeiro holds a joint Professor position at Newcastle University in the UK.