Dr. Charlotte Boccara

Dr. Charlotte Boccara is a Group leader at the Norwegian Centre for Molecular Bioscience and Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. After completing her undergrads in Paris-Sorbonne (Pitié-Salpêtrière), she undertook her PhD under the supervision of Edvard and May-Britt Moser at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. This was followed by a postdoctoral Fellowship in Jozsef Csicsvari group at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria (ISTA) and an Associate Research Position at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology led at King’s College London by Oscar Marin. Since 2022, she has led the EMBL partnership group  “systems neuroscience and sleep” at the University of Oslo and in 2024 she was awarded an ERC starting grant to study the role of sleep in cognitive development. Her research is built at the junction of Systems Neuroscience and Developmental Biology. Her group aims to uncover some of the mechanisms occurring while we sleep that are crucial to healthy development.