Angela Sirigu - DR

RESEARCHER IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

France

Biography

Angela Sirigu is currently the director of the neuropsychology research group at the CNRS in Bron, Rhône. She was trained and conducts most of her research in the fields of neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. After earning her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Rome, she held a first post-doctoral position in Marseille, where she gained extensive experience in human neuropsychology under the supervision of Professor Michel Poncet.
She then held a second post-doctoral position at the National Institutes of Health (USA) in the laboratory of Dr. Jordan Grafman. Her work then led her to Paris, where she worked in the Inserm laboratory directed by professor Yves Agid.
In 1996 she obtained a permanent research position at the CNRS. Two year later she was invited by Professor Marc Jeannerod to coordinate a cognitive neuroscience group at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences, a multidisciplinary research center in Lyon. Today her research team includes engineers, junior and senior researchers, and post-doctoral researchers, as well as Master’s students. In 2012 she was awarded the Marcel Dassault prize for “researcher of the year” for research on mental illness.
She writes frequently for LeMonde.fr.