CV Science

Fanny DEGEILH PhD Neuroscience

Course and current status

Current Position 

• 2023-present: Tenured Research Scientist in Paediatric Neuroimaging and Cognitive Neuroscience - CRCN - French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) – Empenn, IRISA/Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France

Previous Research Experience

• 2021-2022: Inria Starting Reseach Position (SRP) – Empenn, IRISA/Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France
• 2021: MSCA-IF secondment – Neurocognitive Development team, PROMENTA, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
• 2019-2021: Post-doctoral fellow – Paediatric Neuroimaging of Traumatic Brain Injury – cBRAIN team, Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany
• 2016-2019: Post-doctoral fellow – Paediatric Neuroimaging: Typical development and Traumatic Brain Injury – ABCs and Grandir Ensemble labs, Sainte-Justine Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
• 2012-2016: Ph.D. fellow – Neuroimaging of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adolescents – NIHM lab, Inserm UMR-S 1077, Caen, France
• 2014: Ph.D. secondment – Hirst’s team, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA

Scientific summary

My research aims to better understand the dynamics and variability of the brain development from infancy to adolescence in typically developing children and following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). My research is interdisciplinary, combining knowledge and tools from neuroscience, neuroimaging, developmental psychology, and neuropsychology.

• Brain development
• Paediatric traumatic brain injury
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Early childhood non-sedated MRI