Curriculum Vitæ

Born: 22 March 1972

Nationality: French

Employment

since 2002
Chargé de recherches (full-time researcher) at CNRS, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (UMR 8554). 
2000-2001
Marie Curie Fellow at Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Project entitled "Functional and neurological characterisation of developmental dyslexia", under the supervision of Uta Frith.

Academic background (Neurotree)

 2006
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Sciences de la vie et de la santé, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Title: "Cognitive, neural and genetic origins of disorders of language acquisition".
1999
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science under the supervision of Jacques Mehler, at EHESS, Paris.
Dissertation entitled "Languages' rhythm and language acquisition", and defended on 25/11/1999.
1996
DEA (M.Sc.) in Cognitive Science at EHESS, Paris.
1995
Ingénieur diplômé de l'École Polytechnique.

Grants and awards

2009-2013
Grant from Agence Nationale de la Recherche for « Socodev : Normal and pathological development of social cognition » (PI: E. Dupoux).
2007-2009
Grant from Agence Nationale de la Recherche for GENEDYS: Cognitive, neurological and genetic origins of developmental language disorders.
2006-2009
European Commission Grant for NEURODYS: Dyslexia genes and neurobiological pathways (PI: G. Schulte-Körne, U. Marburg)
2005-2008
European Commission Grant for NEUROCOM: Neural origins of language and communication (PI: G. Orban, K.U. Leuven)
2004
Norman Geschwind Prize of the Rodin Remediation Academy.
2004-2007
Grant from Ville de Paris for Genetics of language and communication: Autism, specific language impairment and dyslexia (PI: Thomas Bourgeron, Inst. Pasteur).
2004-2007
ESRC grant for Phonological representation and processing in children with specific language impairment (PI: H. van der Lely, UCL).
2003-2004
Fyssen Foundation grant for Phonological processing in developmental dyslexia.
2000-2001
Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission for Functional and neurological characterisation of developmental dyslexia.
1998
GIS Sciences de la Cognition grant for Natural and artificial models of speech perception: the role of prosody in language processing and acquisition (PI: P. Dominey, ISC Lyon).
1996-1999
Ph.D. scholarship from Délégation Générale pour l'Armement.
1995-1996
M.Sc. scholarship from École Polytechnique.

Publications

Conferences

Teaching

Expertise

Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Dyslexia International (2010 - ).

Board of Associate Editors, Cognitive Neuropsychology (2010- ).

Membre du Comité Scientifique de la Fédération Française des Dys (2006- ).

Developmental & pediatric neurology Faculty member, Faculty of 1000 Medicine(2006-).

Membre du comité scientifique du Réseau TAP Ile-de-France Sud(2006 - ).

Member of the Editorial Board of Cognition (2002-2006).

Ad-hoc reviews for Behavioral and Brain Functions, Brain, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Developmental Science, Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Journal of Phonetics, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Language and Cognitive Processes, Language and Speech, Neuroreport, Science, Scientific Studies of Reading, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Reviews of grant proposals for Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Israel Science Foundation, Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research, Wellcome Trust, Dutch Research Council, Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani, Medical Research Council, MENESR, Economic and Social Research Council.