Nicolas Villain

Nicolas Villain is a tenured Associate Professor of Neurology at Sorbonne University, Paris, France, and a cognitive and behavioral neurologist at the Institute of Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease, Department of Neurology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris.

He trained as an MD and a clinical fellow in Paris in Prof. Bruno Dubois’ group and did his PhD with Dr. Gaël Chételat in Caen, France, where he worked on multimodal neuroimaging and disconnection mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease.

He was awarded the 2022 Early Career Investigator Joël Ménard Prize from the French Alzheimer Foundation. He currently leads projects on brain network vulnerability using multimodal neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in Prof. Kaj Blennow’s new group at the Paris Brain Institute.