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Chris Petkov is Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa, USA where he is now based. He is also Professor of Comparative Neuropsychology at Newcastle University Medical School in the UK. Chris leads an international research program focused on understanding neuronal system mechanisms for human language and memory functions grounded in fundamental comparative research with a primate model the laboratory has developed. The program of work relies on combining advanced neurophysiological and neuroimaging techniques with causal neural system perturbation. Chris trained at the National Institutes of Health, USA prior to completing his PhD in systems neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, USA. He was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany after which he established his comparative neuropsychology laboratory at Newcastle University Medical School in the United Kingdom. The laboratory is now transatlantic thanks to and in partnership with Dr Yuki Kikuchi who leads the UK funded work at Newcastle University (MRC and BBSRC). He has held Wellcome Trust and European Research Council awards, and the research program is funded by joint UK, National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation initiatives.