Prof. Peter Dániel Simor is one of the residents holding the IMÉRA-ILCB chair this semester. Peter is a psychologist with a particular interest in the neuroscience of sleep, dreaming and mind-wandering. He is and Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and head of the Budapest Laboratory of Sleep and Cognition where he investigated a […]

Paul Best has been awarded an 2024 ILCB post-doc grant to work on the topic of spatialised bioacoustics for the analysis of turn-taking in non-human interactions. Paul’s original background is in computer science and machine learning. During his PhD and post-doc in Toulon university, he worked on automating the analysis of non-human vocalisations using neural […]

Dr. Susanne Fuchs will hold the ILCB- IMéRA chair this semester. Her research explores multimodality in communication, the biological foundations of speech, specifically speech breathing, and speech motor control. Together with her colleagues Dr Susanne Fuchs investigated: respiratory, tongue, jaw and laryngeal motions in speech production; the coordination between speech and gesture; individual differences in […]

Prof. Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells is one of the IMERA residents affiliated with ILCB this academic year. Prof. Rodríguez-Fornells is visiting from Barcelona, where he is an ICREA Research Professor in Social & Behavioural Sciences. He obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1996. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University […]

Magalie Ochs is Associate Professor in Computer Science at Aix-Marseille University in the Laboratoire d’Informatique et des Systèmes (LIS). Since her master in Artificial Intelligence at Montréal University, Magalie’s research aims at integrating social and emotional intelligence in social robots and virtual agents. She has worked in several national and international laboratories: University Paris 8, […]

Arielle is a Guinea baboon who recently gave birth to a daughter named Uyu, “the one who answers the call” in Wolof. She, her daughter, and the rest of the colony are residents of the primatology centre in Rousset where the CRPN’s Primate Behaviour and Cognition platform is located. Arielle voluntarily takes part in comparative […]

Prof. Sonja Kotz will hold the ILCB IMERA chair this semester. Prof. Sonja Kotz is a translational cognitive neuroscientist, investigating temporal, rhythmic, and formal predictions and control mechanisms in audition, music, and speech across the lifespan, in animal models, and patients (PD, stroke, tinnitus, psychosis, dyslexia). In her research she utilizes a wide range of […]

Lilia MENA is the new operations coordinator of ILCB. After working as a teacher in Mexico, Lilia came to France in 2017 to study a master’s degree in European and International studies. Interested in the international relations in the educational field, for five years she has coordinated projects promoting the European program Erasmus+, both in […]

Margherita Giamundo was awarded a 2023 ILCB post-doc fellowship to work with Pascal Belin (INT), in collaboration with Etienne Thoret (PRISM, INT). Her project will address the question of the encoding of voice identity in the primate brain, focusing on the variation in spiking activity of voice-selective neuronal populations of the temporal cortex. Margherita will […]

Clara Bourot was awarded a 2023 ILCB PhD grant, to work with Laurence Reboul (I2M), in collaboration with Arnaud Rey (LPC), and Jean-Marc Freyermuth (I2M), to apply statistical modeling of the developmental trajectory of babies’ vocal productions between 0 and 12 months. Clara obtained Bachelor and Master degrees in Mathematics at Aix-Marseille University, and she […]