Dr. Kambiz Alavian is a Lecturer in the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Heidelberg and completed postdoctoral trainings at Harvard and Yale. He currently investigates mitochondrial bioenergetics and cell death and their implications in neurological disorders and cancer.