As a general practitioner, I had two years of clinical practice in the French Army, including a deployment in Mali where I dealt with extreme conditions and highly stressful situations. 

After a master's degree in cognitive science, I completed a PhD in neuroscience focusing on the physiological assessment of body awareness, specifically the analysis of the Heartbeat Evoked Potential (Verdonk et al., 2021, Psychophysiology) and the postural signal (Verdonk et al., 2022, Front Physiol), and on how body-brain interactions, such as disruption of the vestibular signal, may affect decision-making and inhibition (Bouny et al., 2022, Sci Rep).

I completed a two-year postdoc in the lab of Sahib Khalsa at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (Tulsa, USA), where I studied the neurophysiological basis of cardiovascular interoception in generalized anxiety disorder (Verdonk et al. (2024) Neuropsychopharmacology) and gastrointestinal interoception in anorexia nervosa (Project R01 MH127225).