CV Science

Stéphane MOTTIN PhD; Mathematics (PDE), Computer Science (image/video analysis, accurate 3D mesh processing), Physics (wave propagation), Optics (femtosecond systems), Neurophysiology (tachymetabolism,mammals/birds), neuro-ethology & "social brain" sciences

Course and current status

French (born 1964, Paris) 

1987 Engineer  "Institut Génie Chimique" (ENSIGC), France (2nd/ 55 students), "Génie Biologique" (it was the first year of this option).

1988 ESM Emmanuel School of Mission, Paray-le-Monial, France.

1989 DEA/Master "Génie Biologique et Médical", Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, and Université de St-Etienne and Université de Lyon, France.

1993 PhD NeuroPhotonics, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne and Université de Grenoble, France; Chairman: Prof Michel Jouvet.

2006 "Habilitation à diriger la recherche" (H.D.R.), Univ. St-Etienne; "Neurophotonique ultrabrève,et Neuro-éthologie chez les vertébrés avec tachymétabolisme. Etude du sommeil paradoxal chez le rat et de la communication chez le Diamant mandarin"; Chairman: Prof Michel Jouvet.

1995-present Tenure Position at CNRS as researcher in the Laboratory UMR5516,  CNRS, PRES Université de Lyon, Université de St-Etienne, France

2000-present Series editor (MRCT,CNRS)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publications_Mission_Ressources_et_Comp%C3%A9tences_Technologiques

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"a brief two-sentences CV" (200words):

"In the early 1990s, with R. Cespuglio and P. Laporte, we were the first to measure neuro-optophysiologic signals in freely moving rat in order to study paradoxical sleep by optical fibers and minimally invasive surgery (see below) by picosecond time-resolved spectroscopy .

For many years I have developed

1/ a noninvasive picosecond optical tomography (POT) applied to live zebra finches, fascinating songbirds, and

2/ research within the Partial Differential Equations (homogeneization, analytical solution, theorem), 

3/ in social sciences (ethology, social brain theory).

Scientific summary

• Article:
  Functional white laser imaging to study brain oxygen uncoupling/re-coupling in songbirds;
  S. Mottin et al. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2011, 31, 393-400; http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.2010.189
  Commentary article:
  A new technique for functional imaging in songbirds and beyond;J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2011, 31, 391-392; http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v31/n2/full/jcbfm2010190a.html
  Cover:
  

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  Bird Brains : Using Picosecond Optical Tomography to Assess Neural Activity, 
  S. Mottin, B. Montcel; Optics & Photonics News (of Optical Society of America, OSA), Vol 23, N°10, pp. 40-47, novembre 2012 ;
  see also page 3 and page 6.
  http://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_23/november_2012/features/bird_brains_using_picosecond_optical_tomography_to/
  
  

• 2 pictures from this article:
   

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• Measuring brain hemodynamic changes in a songbird: responses to hypercapnia measured with functional MRI and near-infrared spectroscopy; 
  C Vignal, T Boumans, B Montcel, S Ramstein, M Verhoye, J Van Audekerke, N Mathevon, A Van der Linden and S Mottin; Phys. Med. Biol. 53 No 10 (2008) 2457-2470; 
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/53/10/001
• This article was IOP select: http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/page/Highlights%20of%202008

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  Article: 
  Audience drives male songbird response to partner's voice; C. VIGNAL, N. MATHEVON, S. MOTTIN; Nature 2004, 430, pp.448-451; http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02645
  Commentary article:
  Nature 2004, 430, pp.414
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/430414a
  
  Cover: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v430/n6998/index.html
  

-----------Time-resolved fluorescence, freely moving animal (rat)

Article: Inhibition of NADH oxidation by chloramphenicol in the freely moving rat measured by picosecond time-resolved emission spectroscopy; S. Mottin, P. Laporte, R. Cespuglio (2003) , 633-642. In Journal of Neurochemistry:

http://www.mendeley.com/download/public/7698073/4233048543/af7d14bd0cbab759305bd8b42cb6e7af47648d48/dl.pdf

---------mathematics :

Article: Multiscale Modeling of Light Absorption in Tissues: Limitations of Classical Homogenization Approach, S. Mottin, G. Panasenko, S. Ganesh, PlosONE (2011) Open Access:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014350