I am a biologist fascinated in engineering new in vitro models of physiological and pathological processes.

After a double master in bioengineering and neuroscience, I obtained a PhD in these two domains in 2019.

I studied for four years the progression of protein aggregation in neural networks. For that, I characterized the selective vulnerability to alpha-synuclein aggregation of various neuronal populations (Courte et al 2020), and developed a new system for building neural networks in vitro (Courte et al 2018). I used this new model to study the modalities of neuron to neuron propagation of alpha-synuclein aggregation (Courte et al, in preparation).

I am currently working on expanding microfluidic chips production methods from low throughput, PDMS based systems to high throughput, COC based systems.

I am going to start a new postdoctoral research project in Leonardo Morsut laboratory (USC) in early 2021, to help develop what I think is the new generation of in vitro tissue models : self-organized morphologies.

I have an insatiable thirst for scientific beauty, and I also love the visual esthetics that cells and molecules generate at the micron scale.