Dr. Yannick Becker
Postdoc representative (internal)
Main Focus
I study the evolution of language and tool-use, by conjointly analysing non-invasively the brain and behaviour of the same primate subjects.
Principal interest: comparative -, evolutionary-, developmental- neuroscience; lateralisation; gestural communication; primates; neuroanatomy.
Curriculum Vitae
2022 – Present: Postdoctoral researcher
Fyssen Fellowship project: “The evolution of brain connectivity for language: Insights from lateralization, communicative gestures, vocalizations and tool-use in chimpanzee” & "Evolution of Brain Connectivity" project (Together with the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Education:
2018-2022 PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (supervisors: A. Meguerditchian & O. Coulon)
CNRS & Aix-Marseille University (FR), collaboration: E.Hecht, Harvard University (US)
2016-2018 MRes in Neuroscience
Aix-Marseille University (FR)
2016-2017 2nd Year BA Psychology
Jean Jaures University Toulouse (FR)
2013-2016 BSc « Sciences and Humanities »
Aix-Marseille University (FR) & Imperial College London (UK)
Grants:
2022 Fyssen Foundation Personal Postdoctoral Fellowhip (two years funding)
2021 NeuroSchool 2021/2022 (six-month PhD extension)
2020 « Académie d’Excellence » France, Travel grant (Harvard University)
2013 « Académie
d’Excellence » France, Personal grant for 1. year Bachelor's
2016 Erasmus+ (Imperial College and King’s College, London, UK)
Prizes:
2023 PhD Prize of Aix-Marseille University
2022 James R. Hurford Award (Evolution of Language society)
2021 PhD Prize of the French Society for Primatology ("Prix Doctorant de la SFDP")