EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Université de Montréal, Psychiatry and Addictology Department
Supervisor: Michelle Carr, PhD, Dream Engineering Research Lab
PhD in neuroscience – neuropsychology, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Dream and Nightmare Lab, Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Montreal Sacré-Cœur Hospital, CIUSSS-NÎM
Supervisor: Tore Nielsen, PhD (Psychiatry, Université de Montréal)
Project : Targeted memory reactivation and dreams - investigating memory reactivations during sleep of a VR flying task
MSc in Neuroscience, Université de Montréal *fast track to PhD
Supervisor : Tore Nielsen, PhD (Psychiatry, Université de Montréal)
Project: Sleep spindles in idiopathic nightmare sufferers
BSc in Neuroscience, Université de Montréal
GRANTS
2022 Dream Science Foundation/International Association for the Study of Dreams Grant Award
Project funded : “A closer look at flying dreams: building a dataset and scoring criteria for furthering flying dream research”; Co-applicant with Tore Nielsen and Tobi Matzek (Université de Montréal)
2019 Dream Science Foundation/International Association for the Study of Dreams Grant award. Project funded: “Overnight serial awakenings to investigate the temporal and stage-specific aspects of memory sources in dreams”; Primary applicant. Co-applicants: Karen Konkoly (Northwestern University), Michelle Carr and Wilfred Pigeon (University of Rochester).
2019 Dream Science Foundation/International Association for the Study of Dreams Grant award. Project funded: “Structuring the variety of sleep phenomenology with text mining”; Co-applicant with Remington Mallet (Primary applicant, The University of Texas at Austin), Tore Nielsen (Université de Montréal) and Manuela Kirberg (Monash University).
SCOLARSHIPS
2023 European Sleep Research Society
Two-Week Training Grant, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
2023-2025 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Postdoctoral Fellowships
2021 JA DeSève doctoral scholarship
CIUSSS-NÎM
2021 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS)
2018-2021 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (CGS D) award
2017-2018 Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Santé
Master's Research Training
2016-2017 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s (CGS M)
2015 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Undergraduate Student Research Awards ACN-CREATE
2015 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
2014 Central Nervous System Research Group (GRSNC)
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2021 Faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies, Université de Montréal
J.A DeSève Award / Bourse d’excellence J.A DeSève
2021 Trainee Outstanding Achievement Award
Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
2021 Ernest Hartmann Award for Student Research
International Association for the Study of Dreams
2019 Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network Travel Award
2017 Faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies, Université de Montréal
J.A DeSève Award / Bourse d’excellence J.A DeSève
2016 Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Dean's Honours list (BSc in Neuroscience)
2016 Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Jean-Pierre Cordeau Award / Prix Jean-Pierre Cordeau pour l’excellence académique
TEACHING
Sessional lecturer
S 2023 Dreams, psychopathology and sleep / Rêves, psychopathologie et sommeil (PSY2118)
Psychology Department, U Laval
F 2021 Psychology of Dreaming / La psychologie du rêve (PSY3106)
Psychology Department, UdeM
Invited lectures
2022 Investigating the phenomenology of memory reactivation in sleep
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
2021 Dreaming about the lab: implications for dream engineering
MIT Dream x Engineering Seminar, online
2019 Targeted memory reactivation and dreams
Pre-Conference Workshop for Young Sleep Scientists - Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology - University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Moderation
2021 Sleep Salons from the Sociability of Sleep Project. Controlling dreams.
Speakers: Elizaveta Solomonova & Antonio Zadra
Individual lectures
2022 Nightmares / Cauchemars
Sleep, Chronobiology and Dreams / Le sommeil, la chronobiologie et les rêves (PST-6200); biomedical sciences department, UdeM
2019, 2020 Targeted memory reactivation
Sleep Mechanisms and Behaviour (PSYC 444); Psychology Department, McGill
2021, 2022 Sleep and Vigilance / Sommeil et vigilance
Fonctions du système nerveux (PSL1984); Neuroscience Department, UdeM
2021 Dreaming: Functions and Theories / Le rêve : fonctions et théories
Chronobiologie et sommeil (SBM3200); Biomedical Science Department, UdeM
2021 The cognitive functions of sleep / Les fonctions cognitives du sommeil
Chronobiologie et sommeil (SBM3200); Biomedical Science Department, UdeM
2020 Lucid dreaming / Rêves lucides
La psychologie du rêve (PSY3106); Psychology Department, UdeM
2019, 2020 Sleep and Vigilance / Sommeil et vigilance
Les bases du système nerveux (PSL1982); Neuroscience Department, UdeM
Auxiliary teaching
Fall 2021 Physiological Psychology / Psychologie Physiologique (PSY1035)
Psychology Department, UdeM
Winter 2021 Chronobiology and sleep / Chronobiologie et sommeil (SBM3200)
Biomedical Science Department, UdeM
Fall 2020 Psychology of dreaming / La psychologie du rêve (PSY3106)
Psychology Department, UdeM
Fall 2020 Development of the nervous system / Développement du système nerveux (PBC3040)
Neuroscience Department, UdeM
2019, 2020, 2021 Neuroscience Lab / Neurosciences Travaux Pratiques (NSC2004)
Neuroscience Department, UdeM
RESEARCH INTERNSHIP / ASSISTANT
2021 Sleep & Neurophysiology Research Lab - University of Rochester Medical Center
Project : Overnight serial awakenings to investigate the temporal and stage-specific aspects of memory sources in dreams; Wilfred Pigeon, PhD; Michelle Carr, PhD
2021 Translation of research questionnaires - Psychology Department, Université de Sherbrooke
Project : Covid-19 and anxiety in children; Valérie Simard, PhD
2015-2016 Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, CARSM, Montreal Sacré-Cœur Hospital
Project : Dreaming during Shamatha mediation retreat; Elizaveta Solomonova, PhD
2015 BRAMS International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research
Isabelle Peretz, PhD, Psychology Department, Université de Montréal
Project : Perceiving the musical performance of child prodigies
2014 Laboratory for synaptic plasticity research
Jean-Claude Lacaille, PhD, Neuroscience Department, UdeM
Project : Hippocampal synaptic plasticity in TSC1+/- mice; Electrophysiology, Behavior