2010/10 - date INSERM Senior Director of Research (emeritus since 2017/01) and Deputy-Director, Center of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris V University; Consultant Neurologist, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris, France
2000/11 - 2010/10 Professor of Stroke Medicine, Dept Clin. Neurosciences, University of Cambridge (Emeritus since 2010/10) and Consultant Neurologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
1989/01 - 2000/12 Director, INSERM Unit 320, University of Caen, France
1988/01 - 2000/10 Scientific Director, Cyceron PET and Neuroscience Centre, University of Caen, France
1986/10 - 2000/10, and 2010/10-2016/12 INSERM Director of Research (Neurosciences), France
1978/01 - 1986/09 Head, Neurology PET programme, Atomic Energy Commission, Frederic Joliot Research Centre, Orsay, France.
1982/10 - 1986/09 Lecturer in Neurology, Paris VI University
1980/01 - 1982/10 Lecturer in Medical Physics, Paris V University
1976/09 - 1977/08 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
1974/10 - 1979/12 Resident in Medicine and Neurology, Paris University Hospitals
Fields of Scholarship
Neurological disorders
Clinical Research
Physiological and functional neuroimaging
Mechanisms underlying functional recovery after stroke
Mechanisms underlying cerebral ischemia
Positron emission tomography
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Alzheimer’s disease
Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke
Honours and Awards
2025 David G. Sherman Award by the American Heart Association
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
2021 Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard Lecture, European Academy of Neurology
2014 Mémain-Pelletier Biomedical Sciences Prize, French Academy of Sciences
2006 Clinical Excellence Bronze Award, NHS, UK
2005 Johannes Jacob Wepfer Excellence in Stroke Award, European Stroke Council
2003 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK
2003 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
2002 Sir Gordon Holmes Lecture, Imperial College, London UK
1979 Ferdinand Dreyfous Prize, French Academy of Medicine
1979 Silver Medal, Residency in Medicine, Paris University Hospitals