Grégoire Borst

Grégoire Borst is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Université Paris Cité and Director of the Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'Éducation de l'enfant (CNRS). He obtained his PhD in 2005 from the Université Paris Sud and joined LaPsyDÉ in 2010 after 4 years of post-doctoral work at Harvard University. His research focuses on the role of high-level cognitive functions (metacognition, resistance to automatisms, emotional regulation) in cognitive and socio-emotional development and in academic learning in children, adolescents and young adults, using a combination of behavioural approaches and neuroimaging (EEG, NIRS, MRI). The author of over 100 scientific articles, he is also the author of a number of educational books (Le cerveau et les apprentissages, for example) and books for the general public (Mon cerveau - Questions/Réponses, C'est pas moi c'est mon cerveau). Grégoire Borst is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), a member of the International Science Council (ISC), a member of ARCOM's committee of experts for young people, and heads the CNRS's Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire ‘Recherche autour des questions d'éducation’ and the PPR ‘Sciences pour l'Education’. In 2021, he was awarded the Prix Dagnan-Bouveret by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Institut de France) for his research programme on contemporary cognitive and educational psychology.