Sylvie Lorthois

Sylvie Lorthois is a CNRS Research Director in the Porous and Biological Media group of the Fluid Mechanics Institute of Toulouse. After an engineering degree and a master's degree in fluid mechanics obtained at Sup'aéro in 1995, she diversified her training in 1996 with a master's degree in vascular biology from the Medical School of Paris Sud University. Her PhD, defended in 1999 at the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, focused on occlusive pathologies of the cerebral macro-circulation. During her post-doctoral stay at the University of California at Berkeley, she then studied how the complex flow structures induced by carotid stenoses translate into imaging artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Angiography. She joined the CNRS in 2001. She has since been interested in all aspects of brain microcirculation (morphogenesis and architecture, blood flow and transport, regulation and application to functional brain imaging, involvement in brain pathologies, ...), which she approaches not only from a theoretical and numerical modeling perspective, but also based on microfluidic experiments in model systems. Among other distinctions, she has been a laureate of the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator BrainMicroFlow 2014-2019 and ERC POC VITAE 2019-2021).