After a doctorate completed at the neuroscience research centers in Lyon, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University Health Network in Toronto, I joined the NeuroDol team in 2023. My main areas of interest are the cortical functioning of the painful sensation and its modulation systems, addressed by studies on attention and empathy to pain. On a clinical side, my research projects aim to better understand the brain processes of chronic neuropathic pain and migraine as well as their treatments using non-invasive brain stimulation (rTMS, tDCS and virtual reality). I rely mainly on quantitative sensory and psychophysical evaluations as well as neuroimaging approaches (fMRI, MEG, EGG) conducted in humans; with the use of innovative analyzes such as graph theory, brain microstates and multivariate analyzes in machine learning.
Functions:
Junior professor in pain and neuroscience
Teachings:
Human physiology, pathophysiology of pain in LAS/PASS, 2nd year of odontology, master 1.
Collaborations:
Local: neurology services, rheumatology…
National: Pain services and Inserm teams in Saint-Etienne and Lyon, Profs. R. Peyron & L. Garcia-Larrea; Pain service in Grenoble; SFETD
International: Pr. P. Jackson (Laval, Canada), Pr. K. Davis (Toronto, Canada), Dr. F. Chouchou (Reunion, France); Professor Ciampi de Andrade (Aalborg, Denmark); GO-PAIN
project: Going inside Osteoarthritis-related PAIN Phenotyping (GO-PAIN); ENIGMA-Chronic Pain: a worldwide initiative to identify brain correlates of chronic pain