Julia Behrend is a Master's student in Cognitive Neuroscience at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Bremen in 2011. She studied a semester at the Université René Descartes-Sorbonne, focusing on the psychology of emotions and decision making. During her bachelor's degree she did an internship at INSEAD's Research Centre and worked with Hilke Plassmann and Pierre Chandon on an obesity study at the Hospital Pitié-Salpétrière in Paris.