Christophe Destrieux MD, PhD

Christophe Destrieux (MD, Ph.D., HDR) is a Full Professor of Anatomy at Tours University and neurosurgeon. He is a member of the iBrain Lab, INSERM U1253 - Université de Tours, Team 3, Vector-Valued Image Processing Group

He has been serving as a staff Neurosurgeon in the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours since 1998 when he obtained his MD from the University of Tours. His clinical activities mainly focus on stereotactic procedures and low-grade gliomas awake surgery. He spent one year (1997) in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Center for Advanced Medical Technologies, where he developed an inflated atlas of the human cortex using the FreeSurfer package (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/) under the supervision of Pr Eric Halgren. This automated segmentation tool was included in the FreeSurfer package and is one of the most cited papers in the field. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2009 on the same subject from Université François-Rabelais de Tours, where he served as an assistant professor until 2011 when he became Professor of Anatomy.

After cortical and surgical anatomy, his research now mainly focuses on brain white matter anatomy. He leads the Fibratlas project (ANR 2014), which aims to validate MRI tractography by quantitatively comparing its result to dissection. In the framework of this project, he developed strong collaborations with two leader laboratories in the field of brain imaging: the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging, (Pr B Fischl, Charlestown, MA, USA) and Neurospin (Cyril Poupon, Saclay, France). He has been invited 3 times a year since 2002 to teach anatomy during the training courses organized by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. He joined the anatomical committee of the world federation of Neurosurgical Societies in January 2014.