Maxime Bertoux PhD

Maxime Bertoux is a neuropsychologist and translational neuroscientist. His main interest is the identification and exploration of the cultural, cognitive, and neural mechanisms at play in social cognition, in other words, the cognitive processes that allow us to navigate the social world and apprehend daily social life. Besides this basic goal, he is to develop new diagnostic and assessment tools for brain diseases, from a clinical perspective. In that context, he is especially interested in cognitive neurodegenerative diseases especially frontotemporal degeneration which has been the focus of his research from the start.

Currently, he has been working as a Research Associate Professor (“Chargé de Recherche Inserm”) at the Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Institute, University of Lille & National Institute of Health & Medical Research (Inserm) since October 2018. He also works as a neuropsychologist at the Lille Memory Clinic of the Lille Hospital, France. In Lille, he is working to understand the cognitive, neuroimaging, and behavioral characteristics of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal degeneration within the Inserm team "Cognitive Vascular and Degenerative Disorders" and the hospital's Lille Memory Clinic.

Besides, he is an honorary Senior Lecturer at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, and served as chairman, expert, or coordinator in several international expert consortia such as the International Network on Social Cognition Disorders, the SIGNATURE Initiative and the NIC-FTD (Neuropsychiatric International Consortium – Frontotemporal Dementia), which underlines the collaborative nature of his studies.