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Victor (Vik) Perez

Associate Professor, Brain-driven Entrepreneurship and Radical Innovation

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Personal profile

Dr Vik Perez’s work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, cognition, and human performance. His research and practice examine how emerging technologies reshape learning, attention, motivation, and entrepreneurial behaviour—particularly in complex and uncertain environments.

His work advances a brain-driven approach to entrepreneurship education and performance, integrating insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI to better align learning and decision systems with human cognitive and emotional constraints. Rather than focusing on task automation alone, his work emphasises the design of human-centred learning and AI environments that support attention regulation, emotional resilience, and high-performance thinking.

He is the creator of Cognitive Performance Music (CPM), a neuro-algorithmic approach that applies sound as a component of cognitive and motivational regulation, and the inventor of the WNYLE Method, an award-winning brain-aligned learning framework for developing entrepreneurial mindset and performance.

He is the author of Entrepreneurship and Neuroscience: Researching Brain-Driven Entrepreneurship, which explores how advances in neuroscience inform the future of entrepreneurship education and learning systems. His current work focuses on the design of cognitively informed educational and performance environments, including experimental applications of AI that prioritise human cognitive capacity over automation efficiency.

He contributes to international research, public discourse, and policy-relevant conversations on AI, learning, and human performance, and collaborates globally on interdisciplinary initiatives at the intersection of technology, behaviour, and education.

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Education/Academic qualification

Postdoctorate in Entrepreneurship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Award Date: 31 Dec 2018

Postdoctorate in Neuroentrepreneurship, University of Kobe, Japan

Award Date: 1 Jul 2018

PhD, Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland

Award Date: 6 Oct 2017

PhD, Economics and Business Administration, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Award Date: 14 Mar 2014

Especialization in Entrepreneurship, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Especialization in Youth Entrepreneurship, Golda Meir International Centre, Israel

Especialization in Leaders in Development: Managing Change in a Dynamic World, Harvard University, United States

Especialization in Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Harvard University, United States

Especialization in Imaging in neuroscience: With a focus on MEG and EEG methods, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Master in Economics and Industrial Development, National University of General Sarmiento, Argentina

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Especialization in Brain Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan

Especialization in Neuroscience of Learning, University of Helsinki, Finland

Master, International Political Economy and Policy Management, University of Tsukuba, Japan

European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and SMES Management, Vaxjo University (Sweden) and Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)

External positions

Affiliated, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Honorary Associate, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Artist on Spotify

Founder, Global Brain-driven Entrepreneurship Network (BRANET)

Research areas

  • Brain-driven Entrepreneurship
  • Cognitive Performance Enhancement
  • Entrepreneurship education

Person Types

  • Staff