EC2: University of Bordeaux- GIN, France
Bernard Mazoyer is a Professor of Radiology at Bordeaux University, and the Director of the Functional Neuroimaging Group (GIN), a team jointly funded by CNRS and CEA. A graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan (1972), PhD in Biomathematics (1983) and MD (1985), Bernard Mazoyer stayed as a post-doctoral fellows in UC Berkeley in the field of new medical imaging techniques(1984 – 1985).Upon his return, he became an engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission in charge of the positron emission tomography program, then Professor in Paris 7 University Medical school and hospital (Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Robert Debré, 1990-1997) and later at Caen University medical school and hospital (radiology and medical imaging, 1997-2011), where he was also the Director the Cyceron Public Interest Group, a biomedical imaging platform, from 2002 to 2011. In 2012 he moved to the Bordeaux where he is Professor at Bordeaux University hospital and medical school (neuroradiology). Bernard Mazoyer is a pioneer of brain imaging techniques and their applications to the study of cerebral bases of cognitive functions in normal and neuropathological conditions. In 1989 he co-founded the GIN, it was the first cognitive neuroimaging team in France, which he led until 2016. He is also one of the pioneers of population-based neuroimaging, which allows the study of cerebral aging through the analysis of very large multimodal databases, and is member of the CHARGE and ENIGMA consortia. He was at the origin of the creation in 1997 of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, of which he was twice the Elected Chairman. Co-author of more than 300 scientific publications, his work received more than 30,000 citations. He was elected a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2001 and received the 1993 Seymour Cray Prize in intensive numerical computation and the 2002 Dagnan-Bouveret Prize of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
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Bernard MAZOYER, MD PhD
EC2
University of Bordeaux-GIN
146 rue Leo Saignat
33076 Bordeaux, France
+33 (0)5 47 30 43 94
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