Dr. Alain Chédotal is currently Research Director (DRCE) at INSERM, and group leader at the Vision institute in Paris. He was an undergraduate at the ENS and Lyon University and received his PhD degree from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris for graduate work with Constantino Sotelo on cerebellum development. He moved to UC Berkeley and completed his postdoctoral research with Corey Goodman where he worked on axon guidance and semaphorins. He was recruited at INSERM in 1997 and started his own laboratory at the Salpêtriere Hospital in Paris. He moved to the Institut de la Vision in 2008. Dr. Chédotal was elected at the Academia Europaea, the French Academy of Sciences and is a member of EMBO and of the European Dana alliance for Brain Initiatives (EDAB). His lab studies axon guidance, neuronal migration and angiogenesis and has pioneered the use of tissue-clearing methods and light sheet microscopy to study embryogenesis. He also studies optic nerve regeneration and cornea innervation.

Terms of Appointment: Dec 2019 – Nov 2021; Dec 2021 – Nov 2023