Christian-george Benar PhD

Christian-George Bénar graduated from Ecole Supérieur d'Electricité (Supélec) in 1994. He then spent one year as an engineer at the Hospital Saint-Anne in Toulon (with Franck Vidal), and two years as a programmer at Stellate Systems (Montréal). He did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Jean Gotman at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI). Back in France in 2004, his postdocs were in Marseille (fMRI Center, with Jean-Luc Anton) and in Sophia Antipolis (Maureen Clerc and Theodore Papadopoulo). He was appointed researcher INSERM in 2006. Since January 2012, he is the leader of the "Dynamical Brain Mapping Group” here at INS. Since September 2014, he is the scientific head of the Marseille MEG platform. His research interest is signal processing applied to brain signals (fMRI, EEG, MEG), in order to characterize the Spatio-temporal dynamics of networks in cognition and disease.