Idil Sezer

Background & Research

I am CIFRE (dual laboratory-industry) PhD student working under the co-direction of Pr Richard Levy, Dr Bénédicte Batrancourt and supervision of Dr Valérie Godefroy. I am working in the Frontlab and in the Healthy Mind start-up.

After obtaining a Health Science bachelor Degree at Paris Descartes University and a Neuroscience Master Degree at Sorbonne University, I started my PhD in March 2022.

My PhD is on the Ecocapture@home research program. This ecological, home-based, sensor-based approach aims at better understanding and characterizing physiological and behavioral markers of apathy. This takes place through real-time monitoring of electrodermal activity, actigraphy and heart rate variability in patients with frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease and their caregiver.

Through my PhD I hope to improve patient care and monitoring and develop neurofeedback (EEG) and biofeedback-based therapies with our industrial partner.