Lars Nyberg serves as Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at Umeå University, Sweden. He has been active in the field of functional neuroimaging of memory since 1994. He is the director of Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), and a principal investigator of the Betula longitudinal project on aging, memory and dementia. Since 2008 he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Nyberg’s research is focused on the identification of genetic, brain, and life-style predictors of heterogeneity in cognitive-aging profiles.