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About the CSN Podcast
Our Story
The Convergent Science Network (CSN) Podcast began in 2010 at the BCBT Summer Schools in Barcelona, where hosting professors Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott interviewed leading scientists after their lectures on topics spanning neuroscience, robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and biology.
What started as informal post-lecture conversations has grown into a rich archive of 120+ episodes featuring Nobel laureates, pioneering neuroscientists, roboticists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world.
In 2021, the podcast expanded with a new series on Collaboration — produced in partnership with the Ernst Strüngmann Forum — exploring how collaboration arises and why it fails across business, government, science, art, health, and sustainability.
The Hosts
Prof. Paul F.M.J. Verschure
Professor of Neuroengineering, Radboud University
Paul is a professor of neuroengineering, founder/CEO of Eodyne Systems S.L. (neurorehabilitation technology), founder/Chairman of the Future Memory Foundation, and founder/Chairman of the Convergent Science Network Foundation. Previously ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Prof. Tony Prescott
Professor of Cognitive Robotics, University of Sheffield
Tony is Professor of Cognitive Robotics and co-founder of Sheffield Robotics, a cross-disciplinary research institute. His research spans cognitive science and bio-inspired robotics with a focus on understanding mammalian brain architecture. Author of “The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence.”
Podcast Series
🧠 CSN — Brain, Cognition & Technology
95 episodes (2010–2025). Interviews with speakers at the BCBT Summer/Winter Schools on neuroscience, biomimetics, robotics, and cognitive science.
🤝 Collaboration — Ernst Strüngmann Forum
25 episodes (2021–2022). Conversations with orchestrators of collaboration across business, government, science, art, health, and sustainability.
Timeline
2010–2014
BCBT Summer Schools in Barcelona — first 56 episodes recorded with pioneering neuroscientists and roboticists.
2015
Living Machines conference series — 13 episodes on spatial cognition, brain evolution, and cortical plasticity.
2018–2019
New seasons covering consciousness, AI, haptics, epilepsy, and inflammation — 23 episodes.
2021–2022
Collaboration series launched with the Ernst Strüngmann Forum — 25 episodes on how collaboration works and fails.
2025
BCBT Winter School in Alicante — new episodes on cortical development, neuroanatomy, and motion capture.
About the Convergent Science Network
The Convergent Science Network of biomimetic and biohybrid systems (CSN) is a coordination action for the development of future real-world technologies. It brings together researchers from neuroscience, robotics, AI, and biology to advance our understanding of living systems and create next-generation technologies inspired by nature.
CSN was supported through the Future and Emerging Technology programs (FET) of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) work programme of Framework Programme 7 of the European Commission.
The network also organizes the annual Living Machines international conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (since 2012), published by Springer as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Audio production: Sytse Wierenga
Original podcast site: Alberto Betella
Website: csnetwork.eu | csnpodcasts.org
Exploring the convergence of neuroscience, robotics, and AI through conversations with leading researchers since 2010.
A project of the Convergent Science Network Foundation.
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