Jessica Dubois

Jessica Dubois has been a researcher in neuroscience at Inserm (France) since 2009. She heads the inDEV team (Imaging of Neurodevelopmental Phenotypes) at the NeuroDiderot unit, between the Robert-Debré paediatric hospital (Paris) and the NeuroSpin center (Saclay). Her research focuses on the early development of the human brain, studied using neuroimaging and behavioural evaluations in infants. She has an engineering background (Ecole Centrale Paris) and a PhD in Physics (Université Paris Sud). She carried out her postdoctoral research with Professor P.S. Hüppi at the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, where she studied early cortical folding in premature newborns. Her current projects focus on sensorimotor development, in typical and pathological conditions, particularly in infants at high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders and cerebral palsy. She has made significant contributions to our understanding of asynchronous maturation of brain networks, inter-hemispheric asymmetries and relationships between structural and functional development, with over 5,000 citations.