Philippe Azouvi, MD, PhD, is professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines and at the department of P&RM at the Raymond Poincaré Hospital (AP-HP, Garches, France). He is a member of the research unit INSERM « PsyDev », CESP, UMR 1018, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ. His clinical activity focuses on the rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury (stroke, head trauma, cerebral anoxia, tumor...). He has developed a research activity on disability following brain damage acquired in two areas: - cognitive disorders secondary to vascular or traumatic brain injuries: their assessment, their consequences in terms of disability, and their rehabilitation. - factors predicting disability after brain injury in a public health and epidemiological dimension.

Jennie Ponsford, AO, BA(Hons), MA(Clin Neuropsych), PhD, MAPsS, FCCN is Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychology in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University. She is Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre at Epworth Healthcare. Over 44 years she has conducted clinical work and research with individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), investigating outcomes and the efficacy of rehabilitative interventions, with over 500 publications, including two books. She is Past-President of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), International Association for Study of TBI and Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. She has received the Robert Moody prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury and Rehabilitation (2013), INS Paul Satz Career Mentoring Award (2015), IBIA Jennett Plum Award for Outstanding Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury Medicine (2023) Australian Psychological Society Award of Distinction in Psychological Science. and in 2017 was made Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished contributions to neuropsychology and diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of TBI. In 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 she was named as Australia’s leading researcher in Rehabilitation Therapy. She serves on editorial boards of seven journals and is an Associate Editor of Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.