ATLANTA―Christophe Bernard, PhD, will be presented with the 2025 Basic Science Research Award during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES). The Research Recognition Awards are the Society's highest research awards to encourage and recognize active basic science and clinical investigators whose research contributes importantly to understanding and conquering epilepsy.
Dr. Bernard is Director of Research at the Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Inserm U1106, in Marseilles, France. He obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from Paris VI university, did his postdoc at Southampton university, and a sabbatical In Houston (Baylor). His main interest is to understand brain dynamics in health and disease, with a focus on epilepsy (Michael Prize). He participated in the development of organic technologies to record and control brain activity (Felix Innovation Prize) and in The Virtual Mouse Brain (a platform that allows the virtualization of individual mouse brain to study whole brain dynamics in silico). He is now focusing on the circadian and multidien rhythmicity of seizures using a holistic whole body approach.
He acts as a reviewing editor for Science Advances, and formerly for Science and Journal of Neuroscience. He created and is the editor in chief of eNeuro, the online open access journal of the Society for Neuroscience. eNeuro is designed to serve and educate the community, promoting reproducibility, publishing negative results, and sensitizing scientists to open science and better data interpretation with a focus on statistics and experimental bias.