Fanny is a principal investigator at CNRS, based in Marseille (France) at the Timone Neuroscience Institute (INT). After earning a degree in engineering in Paris, she joined in 2010 the lab of Antonio Convit at New York University as a research assistant. She continued on to get her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she investigated how the brain of barn owls deals with sensory uncertainty, under the supervision of Jose L. Pena. Fanny moved to Champalimaud Foundation in 2016 for her postdoc in the lab of Zach Mainen. During this time, she also became a member of the International Brain Laboratory.

Carole is a research assistant. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Cellular Biology and Physiology of Organisms in 2019 and a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2021, both from the University of Strasbourg, France. After graduating, she joined the "Sleep, Clock, Light, and Neuropsychiatry" research team at the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI) in Strasbourg. Her research focused on the role of the circadian molecular clock in the neurobiology and treatment of major depressive disorder using a mouse model of chronic despair. This work led to the publication of an article in Nature Communications in 2024. She then joined the "Neuronal Signaling and Genetic Regulation" team at the Institute of Biology Paris-Seine (IBPS) in Paris, where she conducted pre-incubation assays to investigate the antidepressant effects of a peptide targeting the MAPK-ERK pathway in a mouse model of chronic social defeat stress. Carole aspires to pursue a PhD to further her expertise in neuroscience.

Antoine is a research assistant. Originally from Orange in the South of France, Antoine earned his baccalaureate in 2019. He then pursued a general engineering degree at the École Polytechnique Féminine (EPF) in Montpellier, specializing in Data Engineering during his final two years. His specialization focused on data science, data analysis, and machine learning. Antoine gained international experience through a five-month internship in Germany, followed by a six-month internship at Urbasolar, focusing on renewable energy. He is strongly motivated to contribute to impactful fields such as healthcare, clean energy, and neuroscience. 

Lucie is a research assistant from the Paris area with a BSc in Health Biology (Paris-Saclay University, 2021) and an MSc in Integrative Biology and Physiology (Aix-Marseille University, 2023). Her research experience includes studying rodent decision-making (NeuroPSI, Alexis Faure), investigating odor valences in autism models using behavioral and histological methods (IBDM, Laurence Had), and exploring cortico-striatal motor learning (INMED, Élodie Fino). At INMED, she used behavioral, chemogenetic, electrophysiological, and optogenetic techniques to study parvalbumin interneurons' role in striatal plasticity. Lucie is keen to further develop her skills in using integrative approaches to study behavior and its neural underpinnings.

Shaurya is an intern interested in the neural computations underlying flexible behavior. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Cognitive Science at École Normale Supérieure (ENS–PSL) in Paris, specializing in computational neuroscience and machine learning. At ENS, he has worked on biologically plausible learning rules in recurrent neural networks. Prior to this, he was a research assistant at IST Austria, where he worked on hippocampal replay and prefrontal coding during contextual learning. Outside the lab, he enjoys hiking, beach volleyball, bouldering, board games, and reading.