# Meet our students and collaborators.
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...
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...
Alexandre Cionca is a research engineer in the Department of Radiology at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). As part of the COVID-COG project at the CENLab, he worked 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. He is currently doing his mandatory civil service as part of The Axon Lab led by Dr. Oscar Esteban in an initiative to evaluate the reliability of clinical MRI workflow that routinely aids medical decisions at CHUV. Read more...
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).
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.
Emilie Chassot graduated as a master's student at the University of Geneva majoring in Integrative Clinical Psychology. As part of her thesis, she was studying the integration of the cerebellum in emotion recognition and memory abilities with patients suffering from cerebellar stroke. She is currently working in collaboration with Professor Julie Péron at the CENLab.