Dr Cyril Pernet
Associate Professor Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Denmark Department of Health Technology, Danish Technical University, Denmark
I am an associate professor in translational neuroimaging working at the intersection of brain imaging, statistics, open science and clinical applications. My work focuses on developing robust, reproducible analysis methods for MRI, PET and EEG data, and applying them to patient populations. I contribute to community-wide standards such as BIDS, and created PublicnEUro.eu.
Current Position
2021 – present – Senior Research Software Developer Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Research software engineering for neuroimaging pipelines; leading open-science projects including OpenNeuroPET (international PET imaging collaboration) and PublicnEUro (EU platform for neuroimaging data sharing).
Employment
2015 – 2020 – Senior Academic Fellow & Functional Imaging Scientific Leader Edinburgh Imaging, University of Edinburgh, UK Dual role: scientific management (~40%) covering data management, study protocols, and hardware/software oversight across three MRI scanners; research and teaching in brain imaging for health and disease.
2010 – 2020 – Academic Fellow & fMRI Scientific Leader Brain Research Imaging Centre (BRIC), University of Edinburgh, UK
2007 – 2010 – fMRI Lead for SINAPSE & MRI Manager Brain Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE).
2006 – 2007 – Post-doctoral Research Assistant Department of Psychology (Prof. Pascal Belin), University of Glasgow, UK
2005 – 2006 – Post-doctoral Visiting Fellow Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory (Prof. Riitta Salmelin), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Education
2017 – Software Sustainability Fellow Software Sustainability Institute, UK
2004 – PhD in Neuropsychology (with Honours) Universite Toulouse II – Le Mirail, France
2001 – Professional Certificate in Neuropsychology France (decret n 90.255)
2001 – M.Res. in Neuropsychology Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III), France
2000 – M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology Universite Toulouse II – Le Mirail, France
1999 – B.Sc. in Experimental Psychology Universite Lille III, France
Selected Leadership & Standards Roles
2020 – – Co-lead – Open Brain Consent (GDPR) GDPR-compliant consent templates for open neuroimaging data sharing.
2019 – 2020 – Co-chair – OHBM COBIDAS MEEG Organisation for Human Brain Mapping committee on best practices for M/EEG. Guidelines published in Nature Neuroscience (2020).
2018 – – Co-lead – Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) International standard for organising neuroimaging data. Led the Genetics extension (GigaScience, 2020).
2015 – – Data Science Advisor BRAINS (Brain Images of Normal Subjects) and ENBIT (European Network for Brain Imaging of Tumours).
Key Expertise
| Area | Details |
|---|---|
| Programming | Expert in MATLAB; working knowledge of Python and R |
| Neuroimaging analysis | MRI / fMRI, M/EEG, PET; pipelines with SPM, EEGLAB, FreeSurfer; BIDS curation |
| Statistics & Signal Processing | Robust estimation, hierarchical linear modelling, time-series analysis (Fourier, Hilbert, Laplace), machine learning (SVM, LASSO, random forest) |
| Data management | GDPR, pseudo-anonymisation, DataLad / git-annex, OSF, Zenodo, mySQL, EDC design |
| Open science | BIDS standard, Open Brain Consent, reproducible pipelines, preregistration |
| Tools & environment | Git, GitHub / GitLab, Markdown, HTML/CSS, MS Office, Google Workspace, Inkscape |