Academic interests
- Cognitive Neuroscience of language
- Embodied Cognition
- Semantics
- Word learning
- Language production
- Lifespan changes/aging
- Electroencephalography
Background
Professional experience
- 2021 - Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 2018 - 2020 Post-doctoral researcher ILC, Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France. Supervisors : Dr. Kristof Strijkers, Dr. Marie Montant
- 2014 - 2017 Post-doctoral researcher SNSF, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Supervisor : Pr. Marina Laganaro
- 2013 Contractual researcher, Medical-Educative Institution Le Grapillon, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France
- 2009 - 2012 Postgraduate researcher Laboratory Language, Brain and Cognition L2C2 (CNRS UMR 5304), Institute of Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, Lyon, France. Advisors: Dr. Tatjana Nazir & Dr. Yves Paulignan
Education
- 2014 PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, (thesis titled “Tracking word-meaning in the brain”), University of Lyon, France
- 2009 MSc Neuroscience, with distinction, University of Lyon
- 2007 BSc Biology of Organisms and Populations, University of Lyon
Teaching experience
University education (at University of Geneva)
- 2017 MSc course “Neuroscience of language” (37 h)
- 2015 - 2016 Interventions BSc B2/B3 – Report of experiments conducted in the Psycholinguistics group
Workshops
2021 Online worldwide workshop (6 sessions) “EEG/ERPs recordings and analyses: A multifaceted approach to EEG signal processing”, ScienceBeam
2017 Workshop EEG/ERPs (1/2 day), 18th annual meeting of Science of Aphasia, Geneva, Switzerland
Student supervision
2014-2020 (at University of Geneva)
- 4 PhD students: Contribution to data collection, Methodological/Analyses guidance, Guidance of manuscripts writing
- 6 MSc students (2 students in Neuroscience, 2 students in Speech Therapy, 2 students in Computer science): Tutelage/pedagogical leadership, Research elaboration, Guidance, Evaluation of thesis
2010-2012 (at University of Lyon)
- 2 MSc students (Neuroscience): Tutelage/pedagogical leadership, Research elaboration, Guidance, Evaluation of thesis
Awards/Scholarship
- 2018 Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain ILCB (ANR-16-CONV-0002) (EEG experiments), “Neural dynamics of the production of abstract words in inferential naming tasks”, Aix-Marseille University
- 2017 Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain ILCB (ANR-16-CONV-0002), post-doctoral fellowship from open call, “Neural dynamics of the production of abstract words in inferential naming tasks”, Aix-Marseille University [2 years]
- 2017 Academic Society of Geneva SACAD, Travel grant for the 9th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, USA
- 2016 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Presidency, Travel grant for the 2016
- International Workshop of Language Production IWLP, San Diego, USA
- 2015 Swiss Academy of Human and Social Sciences ASSH/SAGW, Travel grant for the 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, USA
- 2012 Association for therapeutic research, « Impact of gesture on learning », Service of Intern Medecine, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud [6 months]
- 2012 Federative Institute of Neurosciences of Lyon IFNL, Travel grant for the 4th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, San Sebastian, Spain
- 2010 Federative Institute of Neurosciences of Lyon IFNL, Co-PI : Dr. Nazir
- (fMRI experiments)
- 2009 French Ministry for Higher Education and Research MESR, « Tracking word meaning in the brain », UCBL1 (ED 476 Neurosciences & Cognition), doctoral grant [3 years]
- 2009 Rhône-Alpes Region (project CIBLE), EEG devices/Material, Co-PI : Dr. Nazir