I am a neurophysiologist with some clinical experience. My research is at a crossroad between basic and clinical science on the one hand and between neuroscience and biomechanics on the other hand.
With my collaborators, we use motion capture, brain imaging and deep brain neural recordings to decipher the neural mechanisms underlying motor behavior.
My current research focuses on the basic mechanisms underlying locomotor and postural control as well as the impact of the dopamine system and the cognitive load on gait and its initiation by investigating Parkinson's patients screened for deep brain stimulation surgery.

After graduating in manual therapy and to enhance my clinical skills I started in 2012 a master degree in rehabilitation science. At the faculty of medecine of the "université de Montréal" I studied the contribution of sensory inputs to the locomotor and balance control in healthy and stroke individuals. Passionate by neurological mechanisms underlying locomotion, I shifted from rehabilitation to neuroscience and started my PhD. My research focused on the contribution of the brainstem nuclei to the locomotor pattern and movement production. We showed in cats that basal ganglia was involved in the locomotor pattern and its modifications (i.e., obstacle avoidance) as well as in the postural control before and during movement. Because such observations were consistent with disorders reported in neurodegenerative diseases, I decided to place my skills at the service of a clinical project in which I could mergemy biomechanical, neurological, basic and clincal science expertises.
Since February 2020 I am working as a Junior Scientist at the Paris Brain institute ('Experimental Neurosurgery' Team, Paris Brain Institute, Paris) in collaboration with the Lyon Neuroscience research center (CRNL, Lyon, France).