Short Biography After receiving an engineering degree in Physics (Ecole Centrale Paris, 2001) and a master degree in Interface between Physics and Biology (2002), Jessica found her way in research with the challenging aim of studying brain development in infants using advanced MRI techniques. She received a PhD from the University Paris 11 in 2006, for her work on the early organization and maturation of white matter bundles studied with diffusion tensor imaging (CEA, SHFJ, Orsay, supervision of Pr Denis Le Bihan, Dr Lucie Hertz-Pannier and Dr Franck Lethimonnier).
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She performed a post-doctoral training with Pr Petra Hüppi and Pr François Lazeyras (Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland, 2006-2007) on the early folding of the cortex in preterm newborns studied with anatomical MRI. She has been working in NeuroSpin center (CEA, Saclay, France) since 2008, first as a post-doctoral researcher (INSERM U663 - CEA, LBIOM). She was recruited as an Inserm researcher (CR) in 2009, in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit (U992, team Dr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz). In 2019, she joined the NeuroDiderot Unit in Robert Debré Hospital and NeuroSpin center (U1141, team inDev: Imaging neurodevelopmental phenotypes, co-led with Dr Lucie Hertz-Pannier). She obtained the Habilitation to supervise researches (HDR) from the University Paris 7 in 2019, and she has been research director (DR) since end of 2022.
Understanding how the baby’s brain develops in connection with his behavioral acquisitions, and how these processes might be disrupted in multiple circumstances, is an amazing aspect. This requires working at the interface between human cognitive and clinical neurosciences, paediatrics and methodological imaging. Jessica's researches are thus possible thanks to close collaborations with several neuroscientists, physicians, physicists and signal processing researchers.
Her researches have been supported by grants from the Fondation de France, the Fondation Paralysie Cérébrale (project ENSEMBLE, PIs Pr Manon Benders, Pr Andrea Guzzetta & Dr Jean-François Mangin), the Fyssen Foundation and the University of Paris (IdEx). She has been involved in grants from the French National Agency for Research (ANR) on the development of body representations in the baby brain (BabyTouch, PI), the diagnosis and training of premature infants at risk of motor disorders (PremaLocom, PI Dr Marianne Barbu-Roth), the modelling of early cortical folding (MODEGY, PI Dr Julien Lefèvre) and on the relationships between manual laterality and language lateralization during infant development (MALA3, PI Dr Jacqueline Fagard). She received the Junior Prize Christian Nézelof of Pediatric Pathology in 2012 (for her post-doc research) and the Medisite Prize for Clinical Research in Neurosciences in 2018 (with the inDev team).
She has been involved in the Committee “Autism and Brain Development” of the Fondation de France (2015-2020), and in the Scientific Committees of the Fondation Paralysie Cérébrale (2017-2021), the Fédération pour la Recherche sur le Cerveau (FRC, since 2019) and the Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris Cité (since 2021). She has been an Academic Editor for eLife since 2022, Plos One since 2018, and a reviewer for several scientific journals.
Understanding how the baby’s brain develops in connection with his behavioral acquisitions, and how these processes might be disrupted in multiple circumstances, is an amazing aspect. This requires working at the interface between human cognitive and clinical neurosciences, paediatrics and methodological imaging. Jessica's researches are thus possible thanks to close collaborations with several neuroscientists, physicians, physicists and signal processing researchers.
Her researches have been supported by grants from the Fondation de France, the Fondation Paralysie Cérébrale (project ENSEMBLE, PIs Pr Manon Benders, Pr Andrea Guzzetta & Dr Jean-François Mangin), the Fyssen Foundation and the University of Paris (IdEx). She has been involved in grants from the French National Agency for Research (ANR) on the development of body representations in the baby brain (BabyTouch, PI), the diagnosis and training of premature infants at risk of motor disorders (PremaLocom, PI Dr Marianne Barbu-Roth), the modelling of early cortical folding (MODEGY, PI Dr Julien Lefèvre) and on the relationships between manual laterality and language lateralization during infant development (MALA3, PI Dr Jacqueline Fagard). She received the Junior Prize Christian Nézelof of Pediatric Pathology in 2012 (for her post-doc research) and the Medisite Prize for Clinical Research in Neurosciences in 2018 (with the inDev team).
She has been involved in the Committee “Autism and Brain Development” of the Fondation de France (2015-2020), and in the Scientific Committees of the Fondation Paralysie Cérébrale (2017-2021), the Fédération pour la Recherche sur le Cerveau (FRC, since 2019) and the Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris Cité (since 2021). She has been an Academic Editor for eLife since 2022, Plos One since 2018, and a reviewer for several scientific journals.