Jean-Baptiste Perot

Jean-Baptiste Perot

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Radiology, CHUV/UNIL
Email: jean-baptiste.perot@chuv.ch
Mailing address: Centre de Recherche en Radiologie PET3, CHUV
Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Office: PET3-02-200, Rue Pépinet 3, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland

My first experience with biomedical research was an internship during my Bachelor of Physics Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. After this internship, I chose to specialize in the field and followed a Masters 2 in bioengineering at University of Technology in Compiègne, France. Then I had the chance to work for 3 years at MIRCen (CEA Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) as a PhD candidate on the subject of novel MRI biomarkers in rodent models of polyglutamine diseases. I defended in 2021 and started a post-doc at Paris Brain Institute (Paris, France) where I worked on quantitative imaging of neuromelanin in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease. I am passionated with understanding and imaging the brain to combat neurodegenerative diseases. I believe we are still at the beginning of unveiling all the potential of MRI for this purpose. I joined MicMac lab in 2024 to work on the preclinical development of the FIREPATH project that aims at imaging direct activation of neurons using a novel sequence of diffusion-weighted fMRI. This approach would enable imaging neuronal activation in the white matter, which would have important impact on many research applications from neurophysiology to pathologies.