Education/Training

Research and professional experience

2005-   Professor at the Collège de France, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology
2002-   Director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Orsay, France
1997-2005  Research Director at INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research)
1992-1994  Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon (USA), director Michael Posner
1989-1999  Research Scientist, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, France
1984-1989  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Mathematics sections
1982-1984  Ecole préparatoire Ste Geneviève, Versailles (Mathematics section)

Honors and major grants

2010 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
2010 Member, National Academy of Sciences USA
2010 Member, American Philosophical Society
2009 Member, Academia Europaea
2008 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
2008 Member, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
2008 French National Order of Merit
2007 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, best science book for "Les neurones de la lecture (Reading in the brain)"
2007 Gold medal, Association Arts-Sciences-Lettres
2005 Member, French Academy of Sciences
2003 Louis D. Prize, Institut de France (with D. Le Bihan)
2002 Pius XI medal, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
2002 Boehringer-Ingelheim award, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
2001 Jean-Louis Signoret Prize, IPSEN Foundation
2000 Villemot Prize, French Academy of Sciences
1999 James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship
1997 Jean Rostand Award for best general-audience scientific book for La Bosse des Maths (French version of The Number Sense)
1996 Fanny Emden Prize, French Academy of Sciences

Administrative responsibilities

2009- Member of the Board of Directors of the SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals (Brasil).
2009- Member, Scientific council of The Vision Institute, Paris
2008- Member, UCL Neuroscience Scientific Advisory Board
2008- Member, INSERM scientific council
2005-2007   Piloting committee, Neuroscience funding program of ANR (French NSF)
2001-   Advisory Council, International Association For The Study Of Attention And
Performance
2001-2005  Administration Council, French Society for Neuroscience
2001-2005  Scientific council, program « Avenir » of INSERM
1999-   Scientific Council, Institut Fédératif de Recherches 49
1999-2005  Scientific counselor, program “Brain and Education” of OECD
1997-2005  Scientific Council, Fyssen Foundation, Paris
1990-2000  Founder and co-organizer with L. Cohen of the Parisian Club of Neuropsychology at
the hôpital de la Salpêtrière (monthly meetings)
1990-1992  Lecturer in Cognitive Science

Editorial responsibilities

2008- Board of Reviewing Editors, Science
2008- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neurosciences
2006- Editorial board, Mind Brain and Education
2003-   Editorial board, PLOS Biology
2001-   Editorial board, Neuroimage
1999-2005  Associate Editor, Cognition
1998-2003  Action Editor, Cognitive Neuropsychology
1996-  Editorial Advisor, Editions Odile Jacob, Paris
1991-1997  Editorial board, Mathematical Cognition