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Curriculum Vitae

Positions
2008 - present	Assistant Professor for Computational Neuroscience Queen's University, Kingston, Ontarion, Canada
2007	Associate Scientist Supervisor: Philippe Lefèvre Centre for Systems Engineering & Applied Mechanics, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2004 - 2006	Postdoctoral Fellow Supervisor: J. Douglas Crawford Centre for Vision Research York University, Toronto, Canada

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Education

1999 - 2004	PhD Candidate and research assistant Supervisor: Philippe Lefèvre Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Thesis title: The use of extraretinal information to compensate for self-movement
1998 - 1999	Diploma theses (Physics and Engineering studies) Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany Thesis title: Ion scattering with monolayers - depth resolution
1996 - 1999	Engineering studies Ecole Centrale Paris, France Participation in the TIME program
1994 - 1999	Physics studies University of Stuttgart, Germany
1982 - 1994	Bacchalaureate European School of Luxembourg, Grand Duche of Luxembourg

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Funding & Awards

2010-2015	CFI Infrastructure Opterating Fund Canada Project title: Dynamics of Sensorimotor Computations for Perception and Action: Modeling and Experiments
2010-2014	ORF Early Researcher Award Ontario, Canada Project title: Internal representation of space for perception and action
2010	Queen's University Travel Award Canada
2009-2015	ORF Research Excellence Program Ontario, Canada Project title: Quantifying sensorimotor function and dysfunction
2009-2015	NSERC CREATE Training Grant Canada Project title: Computational Approaches to Sensorimotor Transformations for the Control of Action
2009	Elaine and Michael Davies Endowment Fund Canada Project title: Investigating the neural substrates of sensory-motor processes with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
2008-2013	ORF Research Infrastructure Program Ontario, Canada Project title: Dynamics of sensorimotor computations for perception and action: modeling and experiments
2008-2013	CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund Canada Project title: Dynamics of Sensorimotor Computations for Perception and Action: Modeling and Experiments
2008	Queen's University Travel Award Canada
2008-2013	NSERC Discovery Grant Canada Project title: Visuomotor velocity transformations for eye movements
2008	Botterell Fund Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences, Kingston, Canada Project title: 3D visuomotor velocity transformations for eye movements
2007 - 2010	FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique) postdoctoral fellowship (honorific / declined) Belgium Project title: The visuo-motor transformation of velocity signals for ocular and manual tracking
2005 - 2007	Marie Curie International postdoctoral fellowship European Union Project title: Eye-hand coordination and control: Neural network identification and experimental characterization of the brain’s visuo-motor reference frame transformation
2004 - 2006	Canadian Institutes for Health Research fellowship support Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Canada Project title: Spatial transformations for eye-hand coordination in the human
2005	FSR (Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche) postdoctoral fellowship Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Project title: Neural control of eye-hand coordination
2003 - 2004	Leverhulme trust, research funding United Kingdom Project title: The use of cues to guide the eye in the predictive pursuit of moving objects
2001 - 2004	FSR (Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche) doctoral scholarship Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Project title: Evaluation of the role of internal models in the localization of visual stimul"
2000 - 2004	European Space Agency research funding European Space Agency Project title: Dynamics of prehension in microgravity and its application to robotics and prosthetics
1999 - 2001	IAP (Interuniversity Attraction Pole) doctoral scholarship Belgium Scholarship category: Dynamic systems and control: computation, identification and modeling, subgroup: modeling in biomedical systems – modeling in Neuroscience.
1996 - 1998	Top industrial managers for Europe undergraduate scholarship European Union Funding for double-degree studies at the University of Stuttgart and the Ecole Centrale Paris