Julia SLIWA

Julia Sliwa was recruited as Research Officer of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2019 and started her research program at Paris Brain Institute the same year. Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Kavli Program and the Human Frontier Science Program at Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Prof. Winrich Freiwald. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Lyon after training at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, under the direction of Dr. Sylvia Wirth and Dr. Jean-René Duhamel. Dr. Sliwa is a recipient of the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Prize in Neuroscience Research, the Bettencourt Prize for Young Researchers, and the Association de Femmes Françaises Diplômées d’Université/Dorothy Leet Award. His research has been featured in Scientific American magazine and other international media.

How do the brains of a social being give meaning to society? They study neural and neural mechanisms that allow social perceptions to be transformed into social concepts. For example, they are studying how our neural representations of social concepts are constructed from multi-sensory perceptions, how social networks are represented in the brain, and how gestures are perceived during social learning. They use a combination of neuroimaging, neurophysiology, behavioural testing and physiological recordings in animal models, healthy subjects and people with neurological disorders to answer these questions.