Huan LUO is a Professor in the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University, a Principal Investigator at the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University, and a Berggruen Fellow (2026–2027).

Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms of human consciousness, learning, and memory. Her recent interests include structured mental models, the active and constructive nature of cognition, and machine consciousness. Her work has been published in leading journals including Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, and Neuron. Her lab is one of six worldwide participating in the COGITATE project, an international adversarial collaboration testing two leading theories of the neural correlates of consciousness.

As a Berggruen Fellow, Prof. Luo will investigate consciousness from the perspective of bounded cognition and explore a biologically grounded framework for evaluating machine consciousness.