19 Oct 2026
Job Information
- Organisation/Company: ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE
- Department: DEPARTEMENT D'ETUDES COGNITIVES
- Research Field: Psychological sciences » Cognitive science; Language sciences » Linguistics
Offer Description
Main Responsabilities:
Leading and conducting scientific research activities on language and communication with neurological adult patients:
Development of assessment and rehabilitation tools for pragmatic disorders in patients following brain injury or atrophy (stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative diseases, sickle cell disease)
Administration of tools and evaluation of their relevance for patient care
Liaison with the company responsible for digitising tools developed in paper/pencil format
Activities carried out within the Interventional Neuropsychology Laboratory (NPI), a joint research unit (INSERM, UPEC, ENS) in Charlotte Jacquemot's team. The NPI laboratory is located on two sites:
- the Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (UPEC Faculty of Medicine, Créteil)
- The Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
The distinctive feature of Charlotte Jacquemot's team lies in combining clinical research to improve the care of patients with cognitive disorders with fundamental research in cognition
Activities may be distributed between the Henri Mondor Hospital (neurology department), the IMRB (UPEC) and the NPI (École Normale Supérieure).
Main activities:
Leading and conducting scientific research activities on language and communication with neurological adult patients:
- Scientific monitoring of pragmatic disorders and tools for their speech-language management
- Development of new tests for the assessment of pragmatic disorders
- Development of new exercises for the rehabilitation of pragmatic disorders
- Administration of tests and exercises with neurological patients: vascular in the acute and/or post-acute phase (post-vascular consultation…), neurodegenerative, traumatic and patients with sickle cell disease
- Data collection and analysis
- Writing scientific articles
- Improvement and evaluation of developed tools (assessment tests and rehabilitation exercises)
- Liaison with Dynseo, the company responsible for the digital development of cognitive tools
Where to apply
E-mail: nathalie.marcinek@ens.psl.eu
Requirements
- Research Field: Psychological sciences » Cognitive science; Education Level: PhD or equivalent
- Research Field: Language sciences » Languages; Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
Required qualifications and experience:
PhD in cognitive sciences with expertise in speech-language pathology, to lead a project on the rehabilitation of pragmatic disorders in adult patients with neurological conditions.
Required experience in the management, assessment and rehabilitation of language and communication disorders in adult patients
Knowledge:
Knowledge of speech-language pathology and the symptomatology of language and communication disorders in neurological diseases and sickle cell disease
Experience in managing patients with language and communication disorders, particularly pragmatic disorders
Skills:
- Project management
- Communicating with the work team
- Expressing and structuring ideas
- Identifying needs and prioritising them
- Writing reports and documents in English and French
- Planning and meeting deadlines
- Identifier et restituer de l'information
- Collecting, processing and analysing experimental data
- Conducting literature reviews on scientific questions related to language and communication management
Personal qualities:
- Responsiveness
- Scientific rigour and organisational skills
- Languages: ENGLISH; Level: Excellent
- Languages: FRENCH; Level: Excellent
- Research Field: Medical sciences » Other
- Years of Research Experience: 4 - 10
Work Location(s)
Number of offers available: 1
- Company/Institute: ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE / DEPARTEMENT D'ETUDES COGNITIVES
- Country: France
- State/Province: ILE DE FRANCE
- City: PARIS
- Postal Code: 75005
- Street: 29 RUE D'ULM
Number of offers available: 1
- Company/Institute: HOPITAL HENRI MONDOR
- Country: France
- State/Province: ILE DE FRANCE
- City: CRETEIL
- Postal Code: 94000
- Street: 1 RUE GUSTAVE EIFFEL
Contact
- State/Province: ILE DE FRANCE
- City: PARIS
- Website: https://www.ens.psl.eu
- Street: 29 rue d'ULM
- Postal Code: 75005