Virginie van Wassenhove

Virginie van Wassenhove received her PhD in Neurosciences and Cognitive Sciences (NACS 2004) at the University of Maryland, College Park under the supervision of Prof David Poeppel and Dr Ken Grant. During her graduate training, she focused on the perception (psychophysics) and cortical bases (EEG, MEG, fMRI) of audiovisual speech. Her PhD work proposed a predictive coding framework for multisensory integration. In 2005, she worked with Prof Sri Nagarajan (UCSF) on learning and plasticity in audition and in multisensory perception combining psychophysics with MEG. From 2006 to 2008, she was implicated in various projects at UCLA (Prof Ladan Shams, Prof Dean Buonomano) and at Caltech (Prof Shinsuke Shimojo) which included implicit multisensory statistical learning, time perception, gesture communication, and interpersonal interactions. Late 2008, she was hired as the director of the newly build NeuroSpin MEG center and joined the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit directed by Prof Stanislas Dehaene. In 2012, she was appointed an INSERM team leader position and created the Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab. In 2013, she obtained her HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches; highest degree achievable in France). In 2019, she was granted a CEA International Director of Research (DR) position. Since 2025, she is an associated member of LNC2 Subjectivity, Brain, and Viscera. In 2020, she joined the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience as an Academic Editor. In 2022, she was nominated member of the CNRS section 26 (informal website). She co-directs C-BRAINS since 2021.