Manca Peskar received two master’s degrees, namely in Biopsychology (Primorska University, SLO) and Cognitive Neuroscience (Maastricht University, NL). Fascinated by the human brain, she conducted her first master’s thesis investigating electrophysiological (EEG) correlates of navigating in a virtual environment and her second master’s thesis by investigating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to study the functional connectivity of brain regions in clinically depressed patients before and after a medical intervention at Imperial College London. She is employed by the Science and Research Centre Koper and is currently finishing her doctoral studies at the Technical University Berlin during which she has been investigating the link between cognition and motor control in actively moving healthy adults and Parkinson’s disease patients (TwinBrain project, Horizon 2020, ID 952401).