Dr. Paolo Bartolomeo is a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist with experience in cognitive and neuroimaging research on brain-damaged patients. He leads the PICNIC Lab at the Paris Brain Institute, where he has coordinated several EU and French projects, supervised 19 PhD theses and 8 post-doctoral researchers, and published more than 190 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Bartolomeo is the author of several books, including "Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage" (Springer, 2014) and two books written for the French-speaking public, "Penser droit" (Flammarion, 2020) and "Dernières nouvelles du cerveau" (Flammarion, 2023). His team at the PICNIC Lab has made significant contributions to the field, including the discovery of connectional biomarkers of recovery from stroke-induced attentional disorders and the discovery of a functional region in the left temporal lobe important for visual mental imagery.