Institut Imagine — Necker - Enfants malades Hospital
Craniofacial Growth and Form
Forme et Croissance du Crâne is an associate laboratory of Institut Imagine. The lab focuses on the development of growth models in craniofacial malformations, using clinical data unique worldwide (CRMR MAFACE,CRMR CRANIOST,Filière Santé Maladies Rares TeteCou).
Our goal: to build predictive tools, from digital methods and medical data, to improve the management of craniofacial malformations.
Support our work
An associate laboratory of Institut Imagine, of the maxillofacial and plastic surgery department of Necker - Enfants malades Hospital (AP-HP), and of the Faculty of Medicine of Université Paris Cité — working with the CRMR MAFACE and CRANIOST reference centers, Filière Santé Maladies Rares TeteCou.
Who we are
Our team
Roman Hossein Khonsari
Head of the lab
Maxillofacial surgeon at Necker - Enfants malades Hospital, professor and hospital practitioner (PU-PH) at Université Paris Cité. Heads the Craniofacial Growth and Form lab at Institut Imagine.
Ludovic Bénichou
Head of maxillofacial surgery, Saint-Joseph Hospital
PhD student on the contribution of synthetic images to craniofacial dysmorphology, with Jean-Christophe Pesquet and Roman Hossein Khonsari, within the AIDY team.
Maxime Donzel
M2 student (5th year, health major), EPF
Works on the BounTI algorithm for AI-based automatic segmentation of skull bones, with Khosrow Rajabizadeh, Maxime Taverne, and Moé Moisson. Holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Université Paris-Saclay.
Victoria Franchetti-Romero
PhD candidate (2026-2029)
PhD thesis "(Meta-)Modeling of the functional growth of the skull: towards an integrative digital twin for decision-making assistance" (Institut Imagine / University of Rennes): formalizes current skull growth theories using ontologies and machine learning. Supervised by John Baxter and Roman Hossein Khonsari, with the guidance of Pierre Jannin and Maxime Taverne.
Emma Jourdain
PhD student (2026-2029)
Works on an atlas of synchondrosis maturation in achondroplasia, supervised by Nicolas Kogane.
Nicolas Kogane
PhD student (2023-2027)
PhD candidate working on the role of the synchondroses of the skull base in craniofacial growth, supervised by Maxime Taverne, Sébastien Laporte, and Emilie Dambroise.
Hanna Lif
Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University Hospital
Works on normal and pathological growth of the sphenoid bone.
Moé Moisson
M2 student, ESME Sudria
Development of the Bounti algorithm for AI-based automatic segmentation of skull bones, supervised by Khosrow Rajabizadeh.
Giovanna Paternoster
Pediatric neurosurgeon at Necker - Enfants malades Hospital, head of CRMR CRANIOST, clinical collaborator
Arnaud Picard
Head of maxillofacial and plastic surgery at Necker - Enfants malades Hospital, head of CRMR MAFACE, clinical collaborator
Khosrow Rajabizadeh
Senior researcher
Analysis of MRI tractography data in collaboration with IMAG2 (Imagine-associated lab), and AI-based automatic segmentation of skull bones (BounTI).
Adèle Rohée-Traoré
Maxillofacial surgeon, CHU Angers
PhD thesis at the lab, co-supervised by Roman Hossein Khonsari and Laurent Gajny, on a growth model of the prenatal facial envelope using fetal MRI data, in collaboration with the Fondation Lumière.
Maxime Taverne
Senior researcher
Works at the interface between geometric morphometrics, statistical shape modelling, biomechanics, and developmental biology to study craniofacial growth.
Collaborations
Our partners
AP-HP, Université Paris Cité, Arts et Métiers, Inria, CEA, UCL, Uppsala University, Erasmus MC, and others.
Find us
The lab
Necker - Enfants malades University Hospital — Bâtiment Lavoisier
149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France