clément françois

I am a CNRS researcher working in the [**Laboratoire Parole et Langage** ](http://www.lpl-aix.fr/en/welcome-to-lpl/)in Aix-Marseille University and the Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain. I did a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from 2007 to 2011 at Aix-Marseille University under the supervision of Dr. Schön. My Ph.D. work focused on the implicit statistical learning of musical and linguistic structures in musicians and non-musicians. I studied adults and children using behavioral and electrophysiological measures in both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. The results of this work gave rise to several publications in world-leading journals that became reference work in the music and neuroscience community. Importantly, my Ph.D. was part of a large research project supported by the French National Research Agency to Dr. Besson, which focused on music-induced brain plasticity and transfer of training from music to language. From 2013 to 2018, I did a post-doc in the University of Barcelona with Dr. Rodriguez-Fornells (Cognition and Brain plasticity group, Bellvitge Hospital) and Dr. Bosch (Attention, Perception and Acquisition of Language Lab, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital). I dedicated my postdoctoral period to the longitudinal study of speech segmentation based on statistical learning in full-term and preterm neonates. This was done thanks to a 2-year post-doctoral grant from the FYSSEN foundation followed by a Juan de la Cierva-incorporación 2015 with a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. I also coordinated a parallel project funded by the BIAL foundation to perform a multimodal neuroimaging study in children with perinatal stroke. **Project coordination** - **2020.** ANRJCJC BabyLang. From speech perception to vocabulary acquisition in infancy (PI: C. François: 260 k€). - **2020.** 80PRIME LangDev. De la perception de la parole chez le bébé à l’acquisition du vocabulaire chez l’enfant, un projet interdisciplinaire. (PI : C. François & L. Prévot; 44 k€). - **2016.** PERIS program.Reorganización estructural y funcional después de un infarto isquémico perinatal en niños de 3 años. (PI: C. François, 75 k€). - **2016.** MINECO, Spanish Government. Electrophysiological dynamics of speech segmentation in full-term and moderate preterm infants. (PI: C. François; 33.5 k€). - **2013.** FYSSEN foundation. Developmental dynamics of speech and song segmentation in full-term and pre-term neonates: an electrophysiological longitudinal project. (PI: C. François; 50 k€). **Project participation** - **2019.** ANR2019, From lip- to script-reading: An integrative view of audio-visual associations in language processing. (PI: C. Pattamadilok, 342 k€). - **2018.** Sociedad Española de Neuroradiologia. Using fMRI and DTI to predict the success of cochlear implantation in children. (PI: M. Rebollo, 15 k€). - **2016.** La Marato-TV3-2016. Playing and Singing for the Recovering Brain: Efficacy of Enriched Social-Motivational Musical Interventions in Stroke Rehabilitation (PIs: Rodriguez-Fornells, T. Särkämö, J.L. Arcos; 399 k€). - **2007.** ANR-NEURO, 2007, MUSAPDYS (PI: M. Besson, 375 k€). **Evaluation Activities** - Expert ANR (French National Research Agency) for "Young Researchers" calls. - Expert MINECO (Spanish National Research Agency) - Expert ERC 2018 for Starting grants - Reviewer for journals: Science in Translational Medicine, Imaging Neuroscience, Developmental Science, PlosOne, Cerebral Cortex, NeuroImage, NeuroImage Clinical, journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Scientific Reports, Infant Behavior and Development, Neuropsychologia, Brain Research, Biological Psychology, Ear and Hearing, Music Perception, Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience, Hearing Research, Language Learning etc... **Ph.D. Supervision** - Neus Ramos-Escobar \[2016-2021\]. Neural signatures of word learning and speech segmentation mechanisms in adults and children, an ERP and oscillatory approach. (co-supervised with Dr. Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells) - Estelle Hervé \[2020-\]. De la perception de la parole chez le bébé à l’acquisition du vocabulaire chez l’enfant, un projet interdisciplinaire. (co-supervised with Prof. Laurent Prévot, 80PRIME CNRS grant) - Giulia Danielou \[2022-\]. Impact of preterm birth on early language development. (co-supervised with Dr. Chotiga Pattamadilok, ANR Babylang) **Other Supervision** - Nagore Navarrete-Herrero \[2016\]. Master 2 Neuroscience, University of Barcelona - Enara Garcia \[2014\]. Master 2 Neuroscience, University of Barcelona - Thibault Beretti [2022]. Master 2 Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University - Lise Tonnellotto [2022]. Master 2 Neurophysiologie et Neurosciences cliniques, Université Toulouse 2 - William Rosalen [2023]. Master 2 Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University - Eulalie Pequay [2023]. Master 1 Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University - Lucie Delefosse-Touni [2024]. Master 2 Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University