Philippe Voruz is a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva. He holds a PhD in Psychology in which he evaluated 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, with the support of a Swiss National Fundation Project grant. In parallel of his thesis, he had an active role in the COVID-COG project.

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Marine Thomasson was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Geneva. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology. Her research has focused on 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. She currently holds a clinical position as a neuropsychologist in the Neurology unit of the Department of clinical neurosciences at the Geneva University Hospitals. Read more...

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...