MarionROUAULT,PhD
31A Fonthill Road
London N4 3HZ
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+33 6 27 15 56 85
EDUCATION
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
University College London
12 Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG
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2011-2015 PhD in cognitive neuroscience. Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, with the supervision of
Pr Etienne KOECHLIN (INSERM U960, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)
2011-2012 Complementary schooling during the PhD first year:
- « Reinforcement learning » course from the Maths Vision Learning Master (ENS Cachan)
- INSERM training « Neuroanatomy for imaging »
2009-2011 MSc in Biosciences awarded with a distinction (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
2008-2009 Bachelor of Science in biology awarded with a distinction (Ecole Normale Supérieure de --------------------Lyon)
2006-2008 « Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles » Post-secondary preparatory classes in Biology, -------------- Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Earth Sciences for national competitive entrance exam to
-------------- the French « Grandes Ecoles » (this corresponds to an undergraduate degree in maths and -----------------------biology) (Lycée Clémenceau, Nantes)
2006
« Baccalauréat » majoring in Science (equivalent to A-levels) awarded with the highest ------------------ distinction (Lycée Galilée, Guérande)
RESEARCHEXPERIENCE .
2016-------Post-doctoral Research Associate. Metacognition Group, with the supervision of Dr --------------------- -----Steve FLEMING (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London)
From Oct 2011
PhD Program
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience INSERM U960, Frontal Lobe Function Group
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
PhD supervisor: Pr Etienne Koechlin
PhD project: Integration of values and information in human decision-making. This project
….aims at elucidating in humans the interactions between value and information conveyed by
….rewards, combining behavioural experiments, functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and the
….development of mathematical and statistical models of control, monitoring and decision
Acquired skills: Design of behavioural studies, behavioural and fMRI data acquisitions and
….analyses, computational models of learning and decision-making
Feb - May 2011
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience INSERM U960, Frontal Lobe Function Group
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris VI University, France
MSc 2 Research Project
Supervisor: Pr Etienne Koechlin
Dissertation Title: Learning and cognitive control: limits of the human executive function
….Acquired skills: Design of a behavioural study, data acquisition and analysis,
….computational models of monitoring and decision
Sept - Dec 2010
Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Australia
MSc 2 Clinical Research Project
Supervisor: Dr Adam Guastella
Dissertation Title: Neuropsychological deficits in young people presenting antisocial
…-traits
Acquired skills: Participants testing, neuropsychological data processing, assistance in
.....psychiatric consultations and group cognitive therapies in the psychiatric clinic associated
.. with the laboratory
Feb - May 2010
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
MSc 1 Research Project
Supervisors: Dr Guillaume Barbalat and Pr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Dissertation Title: Prior expectations bias emotion perception in schizophrenia
Acquired skills: Design of a behavioural experiment, recruitment and data collection of
….schizophrenic and control participants, statistical analysis
Summer 2009
UMR 8090 of Genomics and Molecular Physiology of Metabolic Diseases
Institut Pasteur de Lille, France
BSc Research Project
Supervisors: Dr Philippe Froguel and Dr Martine Vaxillaire
Dissertation Title: Characterisation of insulin gene promotor mutations involved in
….neonatal diabetes
Acquired skills: PCR, in vitro cell cultures, biochemistry manipulations
AWARDSANDSTUDENTSHIPS .
2015-2014 Best poster in neuroscience award (19th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study
-------------- of Consciousness)
2012-2014 Three-years French PhD grant
2008-2011 Non-tenured position of remunerated trainee civil servant (“Normalien”) at the Ecole Normale ----------------Supérieure of Lyon. Full scholarship for a period of four years, awarded after succeeding the
---------------national competitive entrance exam to Ecole Normale Supérieure in the top 1% of science ------------- students
PEER-REVIEWEDPUBLICATIONSANDCONFERENCES Sept 2015 Rouault M., Drugowitsch J., Lodeho A.-D. and Koechlin E. Integration of beliefs and ---------------------------affective values in human decision-making. Poster presented at the 4th Quadriennal Meeting on -----------------Orbitofrontal Cortex Function, Paris, France.
Sept 2015 Rouault M., Drugowitsch J., Lodeho A.-D. and Koechlin E. Integration of values and ---------------------------information in decision- making. Poster presented at the Workshop: Probabilistic Inference ---- ----------------and the brain, Paris, France.
July 2015 Rouault M., Drugowitsch J. and Koechlin E. Integration of values and information in decision- ----------------making. Poster presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study ------------- -of Consciousness, Paris, France. Awarded best poster in neuroscience.
2015
Rouault M., Drugowitsch J., Lodeho A.-D. and Koechlin E. Integration of values and -------------------------.-information in-decision-making. (in prep)
2015
human
Sulem G.*, Rouault M.*, Drugowitsch J. and Koechlin E. Bayesian inference, predictability and
reward value in counterfactual learning. (in prep)
2015
Rouault M. and Koechlin E. Affective and informational values of action outcomes. (in prep)
Nov 2014 Rouault M., Drugowitsch J. and Koechlin E. (2014). Integration of values and information in ------------decision-making. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 587.06. Oral presentation delivered at the ------------ -Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Washington DC.
June 2014 Workshop: Neuroeconomics: recent advances and future directions. Erice, Italy.
May 2014 Rouault M., Drugowitsch J. and Koechlin E. Integration of values and information in decision- ----------------making. Poster presented at the 4th International Symposium on Biology of Decision-making, --------------------Paris, France.
Apr 2014 Doctoral school ED3C (Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) Annual Meeting. Oral presentation -------------------« Values and information in human decision-making », Station biologique de Roscoff, France.
May 2013 Rouault M., Drugowitsch J. and Koechlin E. Integration of values and information in decision- ----------------making. Poster presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Biology of Decision-making, -------------.Paris, France.
2012
Barbalat G., Rouault M., Bazargani N., Shergill S. and Blakemore S.-J. The influence of prior ----------------- expectations on facial expression discrimination in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine 12:1-11
-------------.doi:10.1017/S0033291712000384
TEACHING
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2012-2015 Teaching Assistant for Master’s degree students (French « Monitorat »): Refresher course in ----------------mathematics for cognitive science, brain development course, and tutorial in the form of a journal
-------------- .club within the “Action, Decision and Volition” course (Cogmaster ENS Paris, EHESS and ------------Paris V, ~64 hours per year)
2003-2012 Private Teacher for high-school students in difficulty (maths, physics, chemistry, biology, ----------------------French and English)
SUPERVISION .
May 2013-Jul 2013 .Alice Viterbo, Medical School student, Paris VI
Jan 2012-Mar 2012 Flora Bouchachourt, M.Sc. student, Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris
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Multidisciplinary scientific culture: cognitive neuroscience, biology, mathematics
Softwares: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; MATLAB and Psychtoolbox (advanced knowledge); SPSS and
STATISTICA; SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping for fMRI data analysis); UNIX (basic skills for
use of computing server); Python (beginner); Adobe Illustrator; LaTeX
Optimization techniques for fitting model’s parameters to behavioral data (Markov Chain Monte
Carlo sampling methods, gradient descent)
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Neuroimaging acquisition (functional, anatomical, diffusion) and analysis
Practise of standard neuropsychological and IQ tests with healthy adults and adolescents and with
patients (anxiety, schizophrenia)
Practise of classic techniques in cellular and molecular biology
LANGUAGES .
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French (native language) ; English and Spanish (fluent)
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Reviewer for the NGO Libraries Without Borders project of translating in French the web platform
codecademy which allows anyone to learn for free different programming languages
(http://www.codecademy.com/)
Swimming, Lindy Hop dancing; First-Aid certificate (AFPS); Driving license.