Julien Claron

I hold a degree from the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) and a PhD in Acoustics from Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. As a researcher, I focus on cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, particularly at the interface between measurement methods and their objectives.

My approach integrates biology with a deep understanding of the mathematical and physical principles behind the phenomena studied.

After a postdoc at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, I received a 3-year ‘Espoir de la Recherche’ grant from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, allowing me to deepen my expertise in MRI, neural activity perturbation methods (TUS, DREADDs), and complex socio-cognitive research.

I’m also committed to mental health advocacy in the workplace and fighting social inequalities related to gender and disability.

I am open to R&D roles in health and neuroscience, preferably in France or the EU.

Feel free to reach out via email.

Professional activities

2022-present :  Postdoctoral Researcher, Executive Functions Neurobiology Team, Stem-Cell and Brain Research Institute, INSERM U1208, Bron. Recipient of the 3-year « Espoir de la Recherche » postdoctoral fellowship from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale.

2021-2022Postdoctoral Researcher, Mov’It Team: Movement, Investigations, Therapeutics, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Paris.

2017-2021Doctoral Researcher, Physics for Medicine Laboratory, ESPCI Paris, Paris.

Educational background

2017-2021 Université Paris Sciences et Lettres – PhD in Acoustics and Neuroscience.

2016-2017 : Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Master’s in Fundamental Neuroscience.

2013-2017 : École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI Paris) – ESPCI Paris Engineering Program.

Scientific training

2019 : General Training in Laboratory Animal Surgery (Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France).

2019 : Training in Animal Experimentation Ethics, Designer Level (CNRS, Marseille, France).

Skills

Scientific Skills: Management and routine operation of neuroimaging devices (fUS, MRI, EEG); pre-analysis and analysis of neuroimaging data (AFNI, SPM, FSL, MATLAB, Python); machine learning (CNN, RNN, FCN, gradCAM); development of projects and experimental paradigms; scientific communication.

Languages: English (fluent), Spanish (basic).