Alain Berthoz

Alain Berthoz (born 18 February 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French engineer and neurophysiologist.

He graduated from the elite engineering École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy (N60), (or Nancy School of Mines), and has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2003, and the Academy of Technology since 2010. He is an honorary professor at the Collège de France.

Biography

As a neurophysiologist, Berthoz is one of the leading specialists in integrative physiology. His research has focused on multisensory control of gaze, balance, locomotion and spatial memory.

Diplomas and career paths

•    Civil Engineer of the Mines of Nancy (1963)
•    Doctor of Natural Sciences (1973) (Paris)
•    Director of the Neurosensory Physiology Laboratory of the CNRS.
•    Professor at the Collège de France (1993-2009)

Bibliography (not exhaustive)

•    Notice A. Berthoz[archive] on the BnF website
•    Le Sens du mouvement, Éd. Odile Jacob, 1997
•    The Decision, Ed. Odile Jacob, 2003
•    L'Empathie, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2004, (), under the direction of Alain Berthoz and Gérard Jorland
•    Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action, Alain Berthoz, Jean-Luc Petit, Odile Jacob, 2006
•    La simplexité, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2009
•    La Vicariance, le cerveau créateur de monde, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2013
•    Complexity-Simplexity, Alain Berthoz (dir.) and Jean-Luc Petit (dir.), Collège de France (Conférences), 2014, DOI:10.4000/books.cdf.3339 - "volume "companion" of La simplexité

Contributions

•    Preface to Ombre à n dimensions by Stéphane Sangral, Éd. Galilée, 2014
•    Regards sur le sport, collective, directed by Benjamin Pichery and François L'Yvonnet, Le Pommier/INSEP 2010, 256 p. ()

Honours and awards

Distinctions

•    Elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics (1994)
•    Elected member of the Academia Europaea (1994)
•    Correspondent member of the French Academy of sciences (Paris, 1999) and member in 2003

Awards and medals

•    Silver medal of the National Centre for Space Studies (1985)
•    La Caze Prize of the French Academy of sciences (Paris, 1987)
•    General Prize of the Academy of Medicine (Paris, 1991)
•    Daw Award for Neuroscience (USA, 1996)
•    International Prize for Neurology of the University of Pavia (1998)
•    Grand Prix du CEA of the French Academy of sciences (Paris, 1998)

References