Driss Boussaoud

Biography

 Born : September 1st 1958, Aït Youssi – Sefrou, Morocco. Education 1997     Habilitation to direct research, Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon (FR) 1981-1983         Doctoral Thesis in Neurosciences, Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon (FR) 1980-1981         Pre-doc degree in Neurosciences (DEA), Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon (FR) 1979-1980         Master of Biology and Geology, University Mohamed V, Rabat (Morocco) Past positions   2008-2015         Project leader and Coordinator, the French-Moroccan Neuroscience Consortium (GDRI) CNRS, INSERM (France) and CNRST (Morocco) 2009-2013         Project leader and Coordinator of N€UROMED, FP7 International Cooperation, REGPOT- 2004-2011         Founder and Director of the Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neurosciences (INCM, UMR6193, Marseille), a Joint Research Unit CNRS & Univ. Aix-Marseille (France) 1997-2004         Research Director (DR1), CNRS, Institute for Cognitive Sciences, Lyon (France) 1992-1997         Tenured Research position (CR1), CNRS (France), INSERM Unit Vision & Motricité, Lyon (Dir. Marc Jeannerod) 1989-1991         Research Associate, Laboratory of Neurophysiology (Dir. Steve Wise) National Institute of Mental Health, Poolsville (USA) 1986-1989         Post-doctoral Fellow at the Lab. of Neuropsychology (Dir. Mortimer Mishkin), National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda (USA) 1984-1985         Head of the Dep. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Univ. Moulay Ismail, Meknes (Morocco) 1983-1985         Assistant Prof. of Neurobiology, Faculty of Science, Univ. Moulay Ismail, Meknes (Morocco)   Current positions   2012…  Senior Researcher, at INS UMR 1106, INSERM & Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille (France) 2008…  Coordinator of the French-Moroccan Neuroscience Consortium (GDRI) CNRS, INSERM (France) and CNRST (Morocco).

Research Interest

 Neurology