Balázs Gulyás is a renowned neuroscientist who served as Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 2012 to 2024, and was the founding director of the NTU Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre. Prior to this, he spent a significant part of his career at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where he now holds the title of Emeritus Professor. He was also the inaugural head of neurology and mental health at LKCMedicine and played a central role in developing neuroscience research infrastructure in Singapore.

He earned his medical degree from Semmelweis University in Budapest in 1981, while also studying physics at Eötvös Loránd University. He later completed a BA and MA in Philosophy and a PhD in Neurobiology at the Catholic University of Leuven. Over the course of his career, he undertook postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute and the University of Oxford, and pursued further studies in theology, mathematics, and executive leadership at institutions including Heythrop College, The Open University, and Harvard Business School.

Gulyás made early contributions to vision neuroscience and brain mapping using PET, later focusing on molecular neuroimaging of neurological and psychiatric disorders. He has authored or edited fourteen books and over 300 scientific publications, and contributed to numerous patents. He is a member of Academia Europaea, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, and has held academic positions at Imperial College London, the Medical University of Vienna, and James Cook University.

Balázs Gulyás has authored or edited fourteen books, approximately forty book chapters, and over 300 scientific articles (sources: Scopus and ORCID), and contributed to nearly a dozen patents. He is a member of Academia Europaea (where he serves as Chair of the Physiology and Neuroscience Section), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine. He has also held professorial positions at the Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine and guest professorships at the Medical University of Vienna and James Cook University in Australia.