Olivier Bertrand is a research director (DRCE) at INSERM.
After training as an engineer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, he obtained a thesis in Biological and Medical Engineering in Lyon and turned to research in human cognitive neurophysiology using and developing new neuroimaging techniques, in particular electro- and magneto-encephalography, as well as intracerebral EEG.
He is interested in the cortical organization of auditory information processing, and more generally in the oscillatory dynamics of interactions between brain areas underlying sensory and cognitive processes.
Director of the INSERM Research Unit Brain Dynamics and Cognition (DYCOG) in 2007, then founder of the CRNL in 2011, he has been directing the DYCOG team until 2020, and the CRNL until December 2023.
He is co-coordinating the iEEG platform of the CRNL.
Since 2021, he is also Scientific Referent for INSERM at Lyon - St Etienne.
