Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience - Admin side

·          April 2019 - present:  Senior Research Chairs Advisor 

Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation, Research Management Services, University of Ottawa. 

·          June 2017 - April 2019:  Research Facilitator

Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa. 

·          April 2016 - May 2017:  Research Administrative Officer

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. 

·         March 2015 - March 2016:  Executive Assistant to the Vice-Dean Research

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. 

 ·         December 2014- April 2015: Executive Assistant

To the director of Zagari, Simpson and Associates, Saint-Laurent, Québec 

·         2009 - 2016:  Consulting work and translation

                Work experience - Research side 

Until 2016: Reviewer for Cognition, Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Acta Psychologica, Psychophysiology, Bioelectromagnetics, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Hearing Science·        

 2010-2013:  Postdoctoral researcher

Auditory Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour,

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mc Master Institute for Music and the Mind

·         2006-2010: PhD student and research assistant

Institut de Neuroscience Cognitive de la Méditerranée, CNRS, Marseille, France

Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Educational Background

·         June 2010 to August 2013:       

Postdoctoral Fellow researcher in the Auditory Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University. Supervisor: Dr. Laurel Trainor

·         January 2010:

Ph.D in Neuroscience – Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille II (with the highest grade and the personal congratulations of the PhD committee). Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, CNRS, Marseille, France.              Supervisor: Dr. Mireille Besson

 PhD thesis: Title “Influences of musical and linguistic expertise on linguistic and non-linguistic sounds processing”.

         http://www.dart-europe.eu/full.php?id=376551

·        2006:

Master Degree in Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience (with honors) - Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille II, France.

Master thesis: Title “Behavioural and electrophysiological approaches of the semiotic of sounds”.  Supervisors: Mitsuko Aramaki & Mireille Besson.

·        2004:

Bachelor in Biology - Université St Marthe, Avignon, 84000, France.

·        2002:

Graduated from the French National Musical School in piano and music theory (Final graduation) in Avignon,

84000, France.   

·       2001:

 Scientific High School Diploma - Baccalauréat Science, option biology – Lycée Frédéric Mistral, Avignon, 84000, France. 

Funding & Awards

-       Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NSERC-Create training program in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (ACN) from 2011/09 to 2013/08.

-       Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NSERC-Create training program in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (ACN) from 2010/09 to 2011/09

-        French National Agency of Research, Research Fellowship, from 2009/10 to 2010/04 and from 2008/06 to 2008/07

-        EGIDE exchange program: PHC France-Thailand, International Research Fellowship, from 2006/01 to 2008/12

-        Ph.D. Fellowship from the French Ministry of Research, National Academic  Fellowship, from 2006/09 to 2009/09

-       Merit Scholarship from the French National Education Ministry, National Academic Fellowship, from 2005/09 to 2006/09 (during the Master degree)

Oral presentations and posters

Talks : 

• • 11th August 2013: Annual Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (ACN) Training Network workshop (NSERC-Create) on the theme Hearing and Health. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Talk on the theme: "Pitch and time encoding in polyphonic sounds". Marie C.

• 9th August 2013: Society of Music Perception and Cognition conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Talk on the theme: “Investigating the origin of the high voice superiority effect in music” Marie C., Gavin M. Bidelman, Ian C. Bruce, & Laurel J. Trainor.

• 12th April 2013: Interview for a professor position at the Psychology department, Université de Montréal. Talk on the theme: “ Traitement des sons polyphoniques : influence de la culture et de la nature".  Marie C.

• 3rd March 2013: Invited conference at the 3rd annual TEDx McMaster U conference, McMaster Innovation Park, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Talk on the topic: “Polyphonic sound processing: influence of culture and nature”.

• 3rd May 2012: The 6th Conference on Mismatch Negativity and its Scientific and Clinical Applications. The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, Talk on the theme: "Influence of musical training on MMN to acoustic and phonological deviants in normal-readers and in dyslexic children". Marie, C , Besson, M.,and Chobert J.

• 5th August 2011: Annual Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (ACN) Training Network workshop (NSERC-Create) on the themes:  Simultaneous pitch encoding, development and influence of musical expertise.

• 18th June 2011: McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, talk on the topic: Transfer of training between music and speech: common processing, attention or memory?

• 23th November 2009: Besson, M. & Marie, C., Invited conference at the 8th Sino-German workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience, “Art & Science”, Munich, Germany: “The Musicians Brain”.

• 12th November 2009: Marie, C & Besson, M., Invited conference at the Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Helsinki, Finland: “Influence of musical and linguistic expertise on the processing of linguistic and non-linguistic sounds”.

• 11th April 2008 : Marie, C & Besson, M.,. Invited conference at the Forum des Sciences Cognitives of Paris: « Music language and dyslexia ».

• October 2006 : Besson, M., & Marie, C. Invited conference at « Les sentiers de la connaissance »: « Brain imaging methods », Allauch, France.

Posters:

- 1-4 May 2012: The 6th Conference on Mismatch Negativity and its Scientific and Clinical Applications. New York City, poster presented: Marie, C., Bruce, I., & Trainor, L. J.  “ Simultaneous pitch encoding: Using auditory nerve response to predict MMN amplitude in the auditory cortex of infants.”

- 14-17 August 2011: SMPC conference in Rochester, poster presented: Marie, C., Herrington, L., & Trainor, L. J.  “ Influence of practiced instruments on the automatic encoding of polyphonic melodies.”

- 9-12 June 2011: The Neurosciences and Music IV “Learning and Memory”. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Posters: Marie, C., Trainor, L “Development of simultaneous pitch encoding: an MMN study with infants”

-7-8 August  2010: Annual ACN Training Network workshop, McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

-25-26-27 November 2009: Young researchers conference in hearing, musical acoustics and audio signal » in Marseille, France.

Marie C., Kujala T., Besson M. “Musical and linguistic expertise influence preattentive and attentive processing of non-speech sounds.”

-28 -29 September 2009: London-Marseille Joint Meeting, INCM-CNRS, Marseille, France. Marie, C., Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Besson. M. “Influence of musical expertise on tonal-language processing:  Behavioural and Electrophysiological study”.

-12 -16 August 2009: 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Marie, C., Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Besson. M. “Influence of musical expertise on  tonal-language processing:  Behavioural and Electrophysiological study”.

-13 -14 December 2008: 2nd scientific meeting of the International research group in Neuroscience France-Morocco.

Marie, C., Magne, C., Besson, M. “An electrophysiological approach to the comparison of speech rhythm processing between non-musicians and musicians”.

 J. Chobert, C. François, C. Marie, D. Schön, J.L. Velay, M. Habib & M. Besson “Multi-feature MMN to speech sounds in dyslexic and control children”, presented by Julie Chobert.

-10-13 July 2008: International Conference on  Music, Language and the Mind. Medford, MA.

Marie, C., Magne, C., Besson, M. “An electrophysiological approach to the comparison of speech rhythm processing between non-musicians and musicians”, presented by Cyrille Magne.

-5-6 June 2008: 16ième Symposium of the graduate school of life sciences and health, Faculty of medecine, Marseille.

-31March- 4 April 2008: Scholars Week, Murfreesboro, TN, : Magne, C., Marie, C., Besson, M. Comparison of Speech Rhythm Processing Between Non-Musicians and Musicians.

-12-13-14 March 2008: Young researchers conference in hearing, musical acoustics and audio signal » in Toulouse, France.

Marie, C., Magne, C., Besson, M « An Electrophysiological Approach to the Comparison of Metric Processing in Speech between Non-musicians and Musicians ».

-17-18 January 2008: International Conference on « Music, language, brain » in Dijon, France. Marie, C., Magne, C., Besson, M « Approche électrophysiologique du traitement du mètre dans le langage parlé: comparaison entre musiciens et non-musiciens ».

Frey, A., Marie, C., Prod’Homme, L., Timsit-Bertier, M., Schön, D., & Besson, M. “Les unités sémiotiques temporelles sont-elles des unités qui véhiculent du sens en musique ? Approche électrophysiologiques”, presented by Aline Frey.

Research commentary:

12 February 2008 : TV show « Le Magazine de la santé » (France 5) « Projet de remédiation de la dyslexie par la musique ».