Wim Vanduffel obtained his PhD from the KU Leuven at the Laboratory of Neuro-and Psychophysiology. After a postdoc in the lab of Guy Orban, he became first Instructor (2002) and afterwards Assistant professor (2004) at the Dept. of Radiology of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Currently, he is still affiliated with Harvard, the Martinos Center for Biomedical imaging and the Massachuchetts General Hospital.  In 2004 he was appointed part-time assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2007, he became Associate Professor and since 2010 he is full Professor. Currently, he is administrative head of the research division Neurophysiology. Wim Vanduffel has extensive expertise in the use of neuroimaging to study humans and monkeys. His specific area of interest is cognition and comparative research focused on the primate visual system. He also studies adult cortical plasticity, perceptual learning, and interactions between retinal and non-retinal signals using a combination of psychophysics, fMRI, electrophysiology, and state-of-the-art reversible perturbation methods.