Jaime de la Rocha is a Junior Group Leader at the Institute for Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) in Barcelona (Spain). He received his PhD in 2003 in Theoretical Physics in the University Autonoma of Madrid in the laboratory of Prof. Néstor Parga. After graduating, he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish government to work in the laboratory of Alex Reyes in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. There he performed in vitro experiments and computational modeling to investigate the transfer of synchrony in simple neural networks. In 2008 he moved to the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers, where he worked in the lab of Ken Harris performing some in vivo population recordings and network modeling on the question of neuronal correlations and brain states. In 2010 he won a Ramón y Cajal position to start his lab in IDIBAPS in Barcelona where he combines behavioral experiments in rodents, electrophysiology, quantitative analysis and modeling to study the neural circuits dynamics underlying various cognitive functions such as perception and memory. In 2015 he became a permanent Junior Group Leader at IDIBAPS and won a consolidator grant from the European Research Council to investigate the mechanisms underlying expectations in perceptual decision making.