About us
# Meet our students and collaborators.
Meet the team
Julie Anne Péron is currently associate professor of clinical neuropsychology and director of the Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva.
Marine Thomasson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva. She holds a PhD in Psychology and a MSc in Affective Psychology. Marine studies the functional specialization and integration of the cerebellum in emotional habit formation and expression with patients suffering from basal ganglia and cerebellar stroke, Parkinson’s disease as well as healthy participants, with the support of a Swiss National Fundation Project grant.
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Philippe Voruz is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva. He holds a MSc in Cognitive and Affective Psychology, and a BSc in Psychology. His thesis aims to evaluate cognition, psychiatric symptoms and biomarkers in different stages of Parkinson's disease as a function of motor symptom asymmetry, as well as the effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation. In parallel, he has an active role in the COVID-COG project, which focuses on the long-term neuropsychological effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Isabele Jacot de Alcântara is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva. She holds a MSc in Clinical and Cognitive Psychology and a BA in Psychology. As part of her thesis, Isabele studies the role of personality in Multiple Sclerosis. She is also involved in the COVID-COG project that aims to investigate the cognitive and affective profile of individuals after a COVID-19 infection. Finally, Isabele also works in collaboration with Dr. Roberta Ronchi, investigating anosognosia for neurological illness.
Anthony Nuber-Champier is a research and teaching assistant at CENLab and the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva. He holds a MSc in Clinical and Cognitive Psychology from the University of Geneva and a BA in Psychology from the University of Grenoble Alpes. He is presently training at the Pasteur Institute for the study of infectious diseases (DMN2IP). Anthony is studying immuno-cognitive relationships in different pathologies such as COVID-19 or Parkinson's disease.
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Alexandre Cionca is a research engineer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva. He graduated from EPFL with a MSc in Micro-Engineering along with a specialization (minor) in Computational Science and Engineering focusing on data science and statistical learning. As part of the COVID-COG project, he works mainly on all-around data processing and analysis with a particular spotlight on computational and statistical modelling of functional MRI in the unravelling of long-term neuropsychological effects following a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Ioana Medeleine Constantin has a MSc in clinical and developmental psychology, and a BSc in cognitive neuroscience. Her master’s thesis focused on understanding the cognitive profile and the anatomo-functional associations in the Suspected non-Alzheimer pathophysiology (SNAP) condition. She currently works in collaboration with Philippe Voruz and Professor Péron on understanding the impact of various clinical and physiological factors on the neuropsychological profile of patients with Parkinson's disease.
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Lina Murray was a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva, where she studied the psychological and neural basis of spatial navigation in humans.
Master's students
Lucie Berset is a Master student in the Department of Psychology of the University of Geneva majoring in Cognitive and Clinical Psychology. For her master's thesis, she is working on a project investigating prism adaptation for the rehabilitation of patients with unilateral spatial neglect, in collaboration with Prof. Julie Péron, Dre Roberta Ronchi (Neurology Department, University Hospitals of Geneva) and Dre Jennifer Martin (Neurology Department, University Hospitals of Geneva).
Emilie Chassot is an undergraduate from the University of Geneva majoring in Integrative Clinical Psychology. As part of her thesis, she is studying the integration of the cerebellum in emotion recognition and memory abilities with patients suffering from cerebellar stroke. She is working in collaboration with Marine Thomasson and Professor Julie Péron.
Clare Colombel is a master's student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva majoring in Affective and Clinical Psychology. She is currently working on how habit psychology modulates eating disorder chronicity, in collaboration with Dr. Marco Solca (Scientific Director at Eating Disorder Care Clinic, University Hospitals of Geneva) and Prof. Julie Péron (CENlab, University of Geneva).
Sofia Cupertino is an undergraduate from the University of Geneva majoring in Clinical and Developmental Psychology. Currently, she is working on an experimental project on temporal context confusion tested with the Jacoby paradigm in collaboration with Prof. Radek Ptak (neuro-rehabilitation Dpt, University Hospitals of Geneva).
Noemi Di Fiore is a Master's student in the Department of Psychology of the University of Geneva, majoring in cognitive and clinical psychology. She is currently working on anaosognosia in neurological disease, in collaboration with Dr Roberta Ronchi (Neuropsychology unit, University Hospitals of Geneva) and Isabele Jacot de Alcântara, for her undergoing Master thesis.
Amédée Liardet is a Master student from the University of Geneva majoring in Cognitive and Clinical Psychology. As part of his Master thesis, he is working on the link between affective shifting and anosognosia in acute stroke patients with Prof Julie Péron, Dr Roberta Ronchi (Clinical neuropsychologist and researcher, University Hospitals of Geneva) and Isabele Jacot de Alcântara.
Alumni
Postdoctoral research assistants
Jordan Pierce realized her postdoctoral research in the Department of Basic Neurosciences and in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. in psychology from the University of Georgia, USA. Her projects in the Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory included meta-analytic and fMRI studies addressing the role of the cerebellum and basal ganglia in habit formation and expression, and the impact of the limbic loop on these processes. Jordan has returned to the USA in 2020 and we wish this brilliant researcher the best of luck in her career. Read more...
Damien Benis is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva. He obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from Grenoble University, France. During his PhD, he studied the role of the subthalamic in inhibition, combining behavioural measures and intracerebral recordings in Parkinson’s disease patients. Currently he is working within the Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics (NEAD) Lab on a series of projects on the functional specialization and integration of the basal ganglia in human emotion with the support of a Swiss National Fundation Project grant. Read more...
Research assistants
Amélie Collignon is a clinical psychologist specializing in clinical neuropsychology. During her stay in the CENLab, she worked on the validation of a new battery assessing emotional processes, the Swiss Affective Battery, under the supervision of Dre Péron and in collaboration with Professor David Sander and Dre Katja Schlegel. She was also involved in the Cognition & Emotion across adult lifespan Project (collab. with Professor Matthias Kliegel).
Master's students
Mickaëla De Jesus Pereira majored in Developmental and Clinical Psychology at the University of Geneva. During her stay in the CENLab, she worked on a project investigating apathy in normal pressure hydrocephalus in collaboration with Dr Gilles Allali (adult neurology Dpt, University Hospitals of Geneva) and Dre Kerstin Brinkman (Motivation lab, Psychology Dpt, University of Geneva).
Héloïse Verger was a Master student in the Department of Psychology of the University of Geneva majoring in affective and clinical psychology. She worked on the development and validation of a tool evaluating habitual behaviors, in collaboration with Dr Julie Péron and Marine Thomasson, as part of her Master thesis dealing with Neuropsychology of Habit.
Pamela Charpilloz graduated as a master's student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva, majoring in clinical and affective psychology. Her master's thesis focused on the short- and long-term neuropsychological consequences following COVID-19, under the supervision of Dr Julie Péron and Philippe Voruz, and as part of the COVID-COG project.
Garance Selosse was an undergraduate from the University of Geneva majoring in Affective and Cognitive Psychology. In the Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, during her research internship, she studied the hemispheric specialization of the basal ganglia during cognitive processes in asymmetric Parkinson’s disease. She began her doctoral thesis in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Grandjean and we wish her every success.
Manon Thorimbert was an undergraduate from the University of Geneva majoring in Affective and Cognitive Psychology. During her master's thesis, she worked on the development and validation of a tool evaluating habitual behavior. She defended her master thesis with success in 2020.