Stephen Ramanoel

I completed a first Master’s degree in Sport Sciences at the University of Grenoble, France, and a second Master’s degree in Cognitive Sciences at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. I then worked as a research engineer on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in monkeys at the Neurosciences Cognitive Center (Lyon, France) for one year.

In 2015, I obtained my PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Grenoble Alpes under the supervision of Carole Peyrin (LPNC) and Michel Dojat (GIN). My thesis focused on the study of perception and cognition in the human brain using psychophysics and neuroimaging approaches. More specifically, I investigated (i) the retinotopic organization of spatial frequency processing in the visual cortex and (ii) the brain plasticity in normal and pathological aging (aged-related macular degeneration) using fMRI associated with retinotopic mapping. In addition, my thesis included methodological developments linked to the acquisition and the processing of fMRI data for clinical applications.

In February 2016, I joined the Aging in Vision and Action laboratory at the Vision Institute in Paris as a postdoctoral fellow. I studied the impact of healthy aging on the cerebral bases of visual processing and spatial cognition using fMRI. In 2020, I realized a short postdoctoral internship at Genève University to investigate the cerebral bases of the need of autonomy.

In September 2020, I joined the University Côte d’Azur as an associate professor of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sport Sciences. My current research focuses on the impact of healthy aging on the cerebral bases subtending visual processing, spatial cognition and motor control. The methodological approach is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together clinical, psychophysical and behavioral assessments as well as neuroimaging paradigms and virtual reality. I am also very interested in advanced MRI data processing (pre-processing and statistical modelling) as well as optimization methods.