Thomas Bessaih
Associate Professor
Research Team
Behavior and Neuroimaging in Visual Aging Specialty areas
Visual processingScientific biography
Dr. Thomas Bessaih studied biology at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). He then received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from University Pierre & Marie Curie, where he focused on the cellular mechanisms underlying normal and pathological thalamic activities in Dr. Nathalie Leresche’s laboratory.
He continued his scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow with Pr. Diego Contreras at the University of Pennsylvania, where he examined information processing in cortical networks.
He has been hired as a senior lecturer at University Pierre & Marie Curie since September 2012.
Since, there he developed ontogenetic tools, combined with electrophysiology in-vivo and ex-vivo at Sorbonne University in order to try to understand Thalamo-cortical functioning.
Since September 2026, he has been hired at the Vision in order to work with Dr. Denis Sheynikhovich. The main focus is related to shed light on how neural networks adapt to ageing with a particular focus on visual perception.
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