Simon Faghel-Soubeyrand

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Memory & Sleep Lab, led by Professor Bernhard Staresina. My work was initially funded by a Newton International Fellowship from the Royal Society, and I am now supported by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship from NSERC.

My research focuses on how the specific content of perception and experience is represented in the brain and used to guide behaviour, with a particular emphasis on episodic memory. I am interested in how the brain codes information about objects, faces, scenes, and events; how individual differences in memory ability shape these representations; and how newly formed memories are transformed over time, especially during sleep.

To address these questions, I combine behavioural experiments with multiple neuroimaging and neurophysiological methods, including electroencephalography, functional MRI, and intracranial EEG. I also use machine and deep learning approaches to characterise the representational structure of brain activity and behaviour across different individuals and cognitive states.

During my postdoctoral research, I am investigating the neural code of episodic memories and how these codes are reactivated, reorganised, and transformed through sleep-dependent consolidation.

I completed my M.Sc. and Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at the Université de Montréal in Canada, where I worked with Frédéric Gosselin and Ian Charest.