Rate My Professor Gwenaëlle Douaud

Gwenaëlle Douaud is Associate Professor at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. She leads the Translational Image Analysis Group at the Oxford FMRIB Centre within the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. After completing undergraduate studies in mathematics and fundamental physics in Paris, she specialised in neuroscience and genetics at the Institut Pasteur before earning her PhD from the University of Paris XI-Orsay in 2006. Her doctoral work focused on structural and diffusion imaging of Huntington’s disease. Since then, she has been based at the Oxford FMRIB Centre, where her research centres on translational neuroimaging methods applied to human neuroscience, including brain maturation, ageing, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and motor neuron disease.