Raphaël Candelier

For Raphael, it all began during an internship in Japan in behavioral neuroscience, more precisely psycho-acoustics. After obtaining a master's degree in cognitive science, Raphael flew off to Italy to study the collective dynamics of starlings, whose flight has been fascinating passers-by at Rome's railway station for many years.

He then returned to France to do a PhD in statistical physics. But after defending his thesis Raphael comes back to his first love, neuroscience, to investigate the mechano-sensorial issue of fingerprints. He is currently working as a researcher in the Jean Perrin laboratory where he studies flows of information in the brain of the transparent zebrafish.

Raphaël attaches great importance to graphic representation in his results. He is always looking for the most visual, the most relevant, the most harmonious." I only understand when I see, [...] I'm sure of nothing until I've seen it", he confesses.