Lab
Meet the team
Current lab staff.
Roman Hossein Khonsari
Head of the lab · PU-PH
Maxillofacial surgeon at Necker Hospital, professor and hospital practitioner (PU-PH) at Université Paris Cité. Heads the Craniofacial Growth and Form lab at Institut Imagine.
Arnaud Picard
Maxillofacial surgeon, Necker Hospital
Maxime Taverne
MNHN researcher, principal investigator
Works at the interface between geometric morphometrics, statistical shape modelling, biomechanics, and developmental biology to study craniofacial growth.
Hanna Lif
Plastic surgeon, Uppsala University Hospital · MD, PhD
Visiting postdoc fellow in the lab; works on plagiocephaly (cranial base, orbital region, ophthalmic impairments).
Nicolas Kogane
Chief maxillofacial resident · MD, doctorant (2023-2027)
PhD candidate working on the role of the synchondroses of the skull base in craniofacial growth.
Victoria Franchetti-Romero
PhD candidate (2026-2029) · MSc biomécanique
MSc in biomechanics, working on the formalization of current skull growth theories using ontologies and machine learning.
Margaux Ntirubuza
Maxillofacial resident (Geneva) · MSc
MD thesis on the long-term follow up of FGFR patients with non-invasive ventilation (OSAS).
Khosrow Rajabizadeh
Associate researcher · PhD
Researcher in biostatistics, omics, geospatial data analyses, data visualization, and machine learning (R, Python).
Ombline Delassus
PhD candidate
Developmental relationships between brain anatomy, skull morphology, and cognitive impairments in FGFR-related craniosynostoses.
Zijin Qin
PhD candidate
Hugo Dutel
Associate researcher
Sofia Benhamouche
M2 student, bioinformatics · Paris Cité
Works on a benchmark aiming at challenging existing shape modelling methods.
Emma Jourdain
M2 engineering student (EPF school)
Works on an atlas of synchondrosis maturation in achondroplasia.
Aurélie Loyer
Scientific illustrator · École Estienne
Works on illustrations of cranial and postcranial anatomy for the lab.
Honor Paine
MD candidate, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Works on the role of synchondroses in skull base growth.
Lucas Chollet
Data Analyst / Data Engineer · M2
Worked on MRI image processing to characterize brain growth in craniosynostoses, using Python and R.
Barbara Ndambidi Yungi
Pharmacy intern
Pharmacist by training, working on the brain project in FGFR-mutation-related craniosynostoses.
Lyza Ben Bouazza
M1 student, biomedical engineering (bio-imaging)
Works on the morphological description of skulls in patients with Crouzon syndrome.
Hind Aissaoui
Dentist, orthodontist (M2 MECENCLI)
Works on the design of a 3D-printable cleft lip and palate surgery simulator for surgical training.
Aloïs Roussel
M2 student
Network
Scientific and clinical collaborators
Sébastien Laporte
Professor, Deputy Director, Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak (ENSAM)
Mehran Moazen
Professor, biomechanics, University College London
David Germanaud
Neurospin — brain development
Laurence Legeai-Mallet
Inserm Research Director, Institut Imagine — FGFR3 and achondroplasia
Jean Feydy
Inria research fellow, HeKa team
Maks Ovsjanikov
Research Director, LIX, École Polytechnique
Antoine Balzeau
Research Director, Musée de l'Homme — paleoanthropology
Sonia Khirani
PhD, Sleep and Non-invasive Ventilation Unit, Necker
Daniel Nowinski
Professor, plastic surgery, Uppsala University
Pierre Jannin
Inserm Research Director, MediCIS, Université de Rennes