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Tasnime Akbaraly Research scientist at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm)

Course and current status

Curent Prosition

Research Fellow at Desbrest Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IDESP), Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.

Identifiers 

Researcher ID :Web of Science ResearcherID H-1389-2018

ORCID :  Tasnime Akbaraly (0000-0002-2150-4190)

 Employment History

2020-2024   Research Fellow, Inserm, Paris-Saclay University
                    Unit: Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations (CESP), Villejuif

2014-2020   Research Fellow, Inserm, Montpellier University (UM)
                     Unit: Mécanismes Moléculaire des démences neuro-dégénératives (MMDN), Montpellier               

2009-2014   Research Fellow and 1-y post-doctoral researcher, Inserm, UM
                    Unit: Neuropsychiatry: epidemiological and clinical research, Montpellier

2009-2014   Research Fellow and 1-y post-doctoral researcher, Inserm, France
                    Unit: Neuropsychiatry: epidemiological and clinical research, Montpellier

2007-2009   Post-doctoral researcher, University College London (UCL)
                     Unit: Dpt of Epidemiology and Public health, Whitehall II team, London

2006-2007   Post-doctoral researcher, Medical Research Council, UK
                    Unit: MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge

Additional Position

2009- 2015   Research consultant (part-time), UCL
                     Unit: Dpt of Epidemiology and Public Health, Whitehall II team, London

2018- 2019   Research consultant, UniversityHospital Center (CHU), Montpellier
                     Unit: Medecine Psychologique Enfant et Adolescent (MPEA), Montpellier

Education and Diploma         

2013   French Habilitation for PhD supervision. Montpellier University, France.

2010   University Diploma in Neuropsychology. Montpellier University, France.

2006   PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health. University Paris XI, France.

2003   Master in Epidemiology. University Paris XI, France.

2002   University Diploma in Statistic and Life Science. University Paris XI, France.

2001    Master in Biochemistry. University Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie, France.

Honours and Awards

2014-18  Scientific excellence bonus, Inserm, France

2010        Prize "Chercheur d'Avenir", Languedoc Roussillon Region, France

2008        Travel fellowship Award, - International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease

2007        Young Scientist Award (oral communication), Federation of the European Nutrition Societies (FENS).

Research support and fundings

2019-2020   Support from Network of Centre of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (€20000)

2012-2014   ARPE- Support from Languedoc Roussillon region to ongoing project. (€50000)

2011-2014   ANR-2010-MALZ-007-01 (Association National pour la recherche) Cognitive REServe and Clinical ENDOphenotype : Crescendo Project (Co-PI) (€655000)

2011-2014   “Chercheur d’Avenir “ Grant allocated by Languedoc Roussillon Region Support for PhD Student. (€85000)

2006-2007   Post-doctoral grant allocated by the French Nutrition Society. (€22000)  

2003-2006   PhD project grant allocated by France Alzheimer association. (€48000)

Other Academic Activities

• Teaching activity: Master M2 at Montpellier University (few hours per year)  
• Students supervision: Students in Master1, Master 2, PhD Student, post-doctoral researcher and research assistant.
• Conferences for a general audience

Scientific summary

Current Research Topic
Etiological association of lifestyle factors with mental and cognitive health - My work aims to assess  understand the role played by lifestyle factors in mental and cognitive health by applying an holistic approach to assess synergy exposures of lifestyle, social gradiant and environmental factors on trajcetories of mental and cognitive health.

Evidence of International Standing

• Publications : > 110 publications ; H-index: 47; >7000 citations, Tasnime Akbaraly (0000-0002-2150-4190), ResearcherID: H-1389-2018

• Learned societies Membership : International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR, since 2015) scientific committee; French Nutritional Society (since 2017)
• Reviewer activity (general medicine journals : JAMA, BMJ ;  nutrition journals : Eur J Nut, AJCN ; endocrinology and diabetes journals : Diabetes Care, Psychiatry : BJP...)  
• Member of scientific evaluation committees (PhD, HDR, Master 2)

Prervious Research Topics / Expertise :  

• Health Behaviour, Metabolic factors and ageing: We examined the association of diet on cognitive,physical functioning and mental health using expertise in nutritional epidemiology and neuropsychology. In parallel, we studied association between type II diabetes biomarkers, cholesterol metabolism and cognitive decline and mental health.

• Cognitive Reserve and neuroimaging: Co-Investigator of the CRESCENDO  (Cognitive REServe and clinical ENDOphenotype) project.Based on the hypothesis that cognitive reserve can attenuate the effects of age-related neural changes via differential expression of functional MRI (fMRI) identified brain networks. An appraoch combining brain imaging biomarkers, neuropsychological assessments, measurements of cognitive reserve proxies, plasmatic biomarkers of amyloid charge and metabolic disorders in observational cohort.