Michaël Zugaro
Neurology
INSERM
France
Biography
Michaël Zugaro is Director of Research at the CNRS. He is responsible for the team "Cerebral Rhythms and Neural Coding of Memory" of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CNRS - Collège de France - INSERM). In 2001, he obtained a doctorate in Cognitive Sciences under the direction of Sidney Wiener and Alain Berthoz (LPPA, CNRS - Collège de France). He then carried out post-doctoral research from 2002 to 2005 in the laboratory by György Buzsáki (Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA). In 2007, he received a Career Development Award from the International Human Rights Program (HFSP) to set up a research team. In 2009, he and his doctoral student Gabrielle Girardeau shared the "Grande Advanced in Biology" award from the French Academy of Sciences for their work on the neural mechanisms of memory consolidation during sleep. He teaches in the Masters 2 of UPMC and Lyon. He is an evaluator (referee) for several scientific journals, including Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, The Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, European Journal of Neuroscience.
Research Interest
Neurology
