Romain Bourboulou – 2019 doctoral student in the team “Neuronal coding of space and memory” co-supervised by Jérôme Epsztein and Julie Koenig-Gambini, is one of the 14 winners of the 2020 Bettencourt prize for young researchers. During his thesis he worked on the resolution of spatial coding in the hippocampus using an innovative combination of electrophysiological recordings and a behavioural task in virtual reality.

Romain is now at UCL in London (r.bourboulou@ucl.ac.uk). During his post-doctoral work, he will attempt to elucidate the neural mechanisms that allow a transfer from short-term memory in the hippocampus to long-term memory in the cortex. A multidisciplinary approach will help him to better understand the mechanisms underlying memory formation in the healthy brain and potentially its degradation in certain pathologies such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Congratulations Romain!

Bettencourt Award

 

 

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