Christian Lüscher is a Swiss neurobiologist and full professor at the Department of Basic Neurosciences of the University of Geneva. He is also an attending in neurology at the Geneva University Hospital. Lüscher is known for his contributions in the field addiction, particularly for establishing links of causality between the drug-evoked synaptic plasticity and adaptive behavior in mice. He is a two time ERC advanced grant holder and the laureate of the Schaller prize (2022), the Otto Naegeli Prize (2021) and many other distinctions. He has mentored 50+ scientists who have engaged into their own very successful careers.