Childéric received his master's degree in cognitive science from Grenoble INP. During his studies, he undertook an internship characterizing metamemory and metaperception in schizophrenia spectrum disorders under the guidance of Nathan Faivre.

Childéric joined our team as a Ph.D. candidate at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN), co-supervised by Mircea Polosan and Michael Pereira. He will delve into the intricacies of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), with a specific focus on identifying both electrophysiological and behavioral biomarkers of the disorder. His thesis not only aims to enhance the understanding of OCD through a detailed study of decision-making processes and metacognition but especially to pave the way for innovative therapeutic approaches, with a focus on closed-loop techniques such as neurofeedback.

He is funded by the Grenoble Neurotech CDP.

After a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Pauline is finishing her Master's in Neuropsychology and Clinical Neurosciences at Université Grenoble-Alpes. She first joined our group for her Master's thesis which consisted of searching for behavioral and EEG markers of obsessive-compulsive symptoms with Childéric Dezier.

She then obtained an excellence scholarship to do a PhD in our team at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN), supervised by Mircea Polosan and Michael Pereira. She will study habituation and metacognition in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Aziza did a bachelor's in life science at Université Paris Descartes with a one-year exchange at Université du Quebec à Montréal during which she studied mathematics and philosophy. She then obtained a Master degree from Sorbonne University in Integrative Biology and Physiology with a focus on modelling and data analysis.

In her PhD, she studies false perceptions such as hallucinations using psychophysical methods in healthy participants and patients with Parkinson's disease with visual hallucinations. She applies computational models of evidence accumulation to understand the underlying mechanisms better.

She is funded by the LEAP project.

Shiva obtained her master’s degree in Neuroscience engineering from PSL, and Université de Paris. She engaged in fundamental and applied research, contributing to the development of a passive brain-computer interface for stress detection at Mind & Act, Capgmeni and conducting in vivo signal analysis to characterize the encoding of movement kinematics at the University of Oxford.

In her Ph.D, co-supervised by Nathan Faivre and Michael Pereira, she investigates the neural mechanism of perceptual onsciousness in particular how the temporal evolution of conscious experience correlates with the activity of single neurons and local field potentials.

She is funded by the LEAP project.

Artemio Soto Breceda graduated in 2010 as an Engineer in Electronics from Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico) and in 2013 he obtained his Master of Science degree in Bioelectronics Engineering at the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico).

Artemio completed his PhD studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne (Australia), where he researched protocols for electrical stimulation of the retina in rodents. He obtained his PhD in Neuroscience in 2019 and continued working in Melbourne as a researcher in computational neuroscience, developing multiscale neural models.

Artemio now works as a Postdoctoral researcher in the LEAP group, studying consciousness through computational models, funded by the LEAP project.

Jeanne obtained her bachelor’s degree in Integrative and Adaptive Physiology and Neuroscience from Aix-Marseille University (AMU), which she completed at Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA, USA), with a focus on Behavioral Neuroscience. During her first year of her master’s program, she concentrated on cognitive sciences with a major in neuroscience at the Cogmaster program at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, after which she completed a Master’s degree in Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience at AMU. She obtained her Ph.D. from AMU, supervised by Anne Kavounoudias and Nicolas Catz. She carried out a first postdoc at the CrossModal Perception and Plasticity lab with Olivier Collignon at Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and then joined the Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition in Grenoble for a second postdoc with Nathan Faivre.

She is a now an assistant professor (Maître de Conférences) at the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and the Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN) in Grenoble. She is interested in multi-sensory perception and hallucinations in wakefulness and sleep, using a multi-scale approach from psychophysics, fMRI, to sEEG in humans.

Yoko obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and her Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology from Université Grenoble Alpes. She completed her Ph.D. in Neuropsychology at the Université d’Angers, where she worked at the Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire.

She has gained experience as a Clinical Research Associate, first at the Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d’Alzheimer (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris), and then at Grenoble University Hospital (CHUGA). In these roles, she was involved in clinical trial management, cohort coordination, and multidisciplinary research.

She currently coordinates clinical studies involving patients with epilepsy at the Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN) and CHUGA.

After a Bachelor's degree in Psychobiology at University of Amsterdam, Elske is finishing her Master's in Biomedical Sciences, option Neurobiology at University of Amsterdam. She joined our group for an internship during which she will investigate how neurons interact during a vibrotactile detection task, with Artemio Soto Breceda.

After a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Université Grenoble-Alpes, Nicolas is now pursuing a Master's degree in Neuropsychology and Clinical Neurosciences at Université Grenoble-Alpes. He joined our group for an internship during which he will investigate the cortical network responsible for hallucinations using cortico-cortical evoked potentials in patients with epilepsy, with Jeanne Caron Guyon and Alexis Robin.

Merry Wang holds an MSc in Neuroscience from University College London. During her master’s project, she focused on developing quantitative indices of consciousness inspired by Global Neuronal Workspace theory, using graph-theoretical approaches to characterize large-scale brain network organization. In her PhD, co-supervised by Nathan Faivre and Michael Pereira, she investigates the neural correlates of consciousness using intracranial sEEG in patients with epilepsy undergoing anesthesia. Her project combines high-gamma activity analyses in auditory cortex with large-scale thalamocortical connectivity measures, aiming to identify markers of conscious processing during anesthesia-induced unresponsiveness.

After a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Pauline is finishing her Master's in Neuropsychology and Clinical Neurosciences at Université Grenoble-Alpes. She first joined our group for her Master's thesis which consisted of searching for behavioral and EEG markers of obsessive-compulsive symptoms with Childéric Dezier.

She then obtained an excellence scholarship to do a PhD in our team at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN), supervised by Mircea Polosan and Michael Pereira. She will study habituation and metacognition in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Axel obtained a Bachelor's degree in Fundamental Physics and a Master's degree in Digital Science for Health, specializing in Medical Device Engineering, from the University of Montpellier in 2018. He obtained his Ph.D. from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in 2024 at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod (ISC). His doctoral research focused on the neural implementation of prefrontal cortex functions and their neuromodulation by noradrenaline. He subsequently completed a postdoc at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN) in the Action and Cognition team led by Julien Bastin, where he investigated the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making processes.

Axel is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the MESS team, studying the neural correlates of consciousness through single-neuron recordings in humans, funded by the LEAP project.

Nicolas pursued a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Neuropsychology and Clinical Neurosciences at Université Grenoble-Alpes. He joined our group for a Master's thesis during which he investigated the cortical network responsible for hallucinations using cortico-cortical evoked potentials in patients with epilepsy, with Jeanne Caron Guyon and Alexis Robin.

He is now continuing to analyze cortico-cortical evoked potentials as a study engineer.

Soraya recently completed her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, after first studying economics. During her studies, she developed a strong interest in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology through a research project on the impact of ovarian hormone fluctuations on executive functions in women with ADHD.

Soraya joined the MESS team at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN) for a three-month research internship under the supervision of Michael Pereira. She is currently working with Aziza Chebil on a project investigating visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease from a cognitive perspective, with a particular focus on attention. During her internship, she contributes to experimental work while developing her skills in experimental design and learning about different stages of the research process.