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Professional and academic positions
2009 - Senior principal investigator (Directeur de recherche DR2) at INSERM.
2008 - Leader of the research team « social cognition » LNC, U960 INSERM (Dir. Dr. Koechlin) & Institut de Sciences Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure.
2004 - Senior research Scientist (Chargé de Recherche CR1 INSERM ) at LPPA-College de France (Dir. by Prof. Berthoz), Paris).
2000 - 2003 - Post doctoral fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (London), under the supervision of Pr. RE Passingham (Oxford University).
1996 – 2000- PhD student at INSERM U280 (Lyon) supervised by Pr. Jean Decety.
Academic training and diploma
2009 - "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches", Doctoral School of Ecole Normale Supérieure.
2000 - Ph.D. in Neuropsychology, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I.
1996 - Advanced M.A. in Neuropsychology, UCB Lyon I.
1995 - Advanced M.S. in Science, Physiology and Neurosciences, UCB Lyon I.
1994 - Bachelor in Cellular and Molecular Biology, UCB, Lyon I.
Prizes and Awards
2016 - Label « Equipe FRM 2016 » (400k€)
2013 - Fondation Roger de Spoelberch (225K€)
2009 - Fondation pour la Recherche Psychiatrie & Santé Mentale (40K€).
2002 - Oxford University Prize for Postdoctoral work.
2001 - Société des Neurosciences, Prize for PhD work.
1999 - Société de Circulation et de Métabolisme du Cerveau, Prize for PhD work.
1997 - Société de Neuropsychologie de langue Française, Prize for graduate work.
Other grants
2024-2027 Coordinator of an ANR (311K€)
2022-2024 Maimonide 2021 France-Israël (80 K€)
2021-2026 - Coordinator ANR (300K€)
2020-2023 - Coordinator Fondation de France grant (199K€)
2016-2019 - Coordinator FRM grant (400 K€)
2012-2015 - Coordinator of ANR Emotion et Cognition (160K€)
2011-2016 - Collaborator on an ERC coordinated (500K€ with Dr Laurence Conty)
2006-2009 - Partner on an EU Program (N° NEST-2005-Path-IMP-043403) (170K€).
2004-2007 - Coordinator of ACI Neurosciences intégratives et computationnelles (100K€)
2004-2007 - Partner on a Human Frontier Science Program Grant (RGP 0054/2004)
2002-2005 - Partner on an EU Program (N° QLG3-CT-2002-00746).
2000-2003 - 3 years contract with Oxford Univerty (Wellcome Trust).
1999-2000 - FRM and Lilly Neuroscience.
1996-1999 - Allocation de Recherche du MENRT
Collective responsibilities & Research Management
Since 2021: Member of the Hubrec DeepMind Technologies ethical committee (UK)
2019-2021: Vice-Presidente (2020-2021) and was a member (2019-2020) of the scientific committee ANR Neurosciences intégratives et cognitives.
2020-2022, 2024 : Member of the Commission scientifique SHS – FNRS (Belgium).
Since 2014, Member of the Scientific Committee “Brain, Culture and Society” run by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA) in Paris.
Since 2016, I took several engagements in the autism domain- I am a member of the Centre d'excellence pour l’autisme Ile de France – InovAND newly created (2019) and a, member of Steering subcommittee « trajectoires de développement » of the National “Réseau Recherche Autisme”, ITMO Neurosciences which aim at facilitating collaborative work among national teams. I was also appointed as a Member of the Fondation Orange Autism Committee, (2017-2019). My responsibility was to help, as a scientific, selecting the best applications to their bi-annual calls for funding.
2016-2020: I was responsible of the New Ideas in Social Cognition program of the LABEX “Institut d’Etudes de la Cognition” (ENS), which aimed at organizing an annual international conference in this domain.
Teaching courses:
2011-2014: I organized the ENS CogMaster2 course “Economic and social behaviours: from cognitive mechanisms to collective phenomena” (36h).
Since 2015: I am teaching two courses (6h) in the Master Biologie Intégratives et Physiologie (Paris).
2016-2024: I organized with Dr Chevallier the ENS CogMaster1 course “Building blocks in social cognition” (32h).
2018-2023: I organized with Dr Koechlin the Science-Po Master1 course "Introductory course in cognitive neurosciences" (24h), for the Master Innovation and digital transformation.
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