Dr Flora Faure is a biomedical engineer and researcher specialising in neonatal brain imaging. She obtained her engineering degree from Mines Saint-Étienne (France) and completed her PhD in 2023 at the Institute Physics for Medicine Paris (PSL University, France), under the supervision of Dr Charlie Demené. Her doctoral research focused on advancing ultrafast ultrasound imaging techniques and analysis to monitor brain function in perinatal pathologies, in both preclinical and clinical studies. She then joined the DOT-HUB Lab at University College London (UCL) to work on diffuse optical imaging in neonates. Supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, she has now joined the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and is working in collaboration with Prof. Topun Austin's group at the Rosie Hospital (neoLAB).
Her current research interest is to develop a novel multimodal imaging device that combines functional ultrasound (fUS) and high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) to investigate brain functional connectivity in human neonates. By assessing whole brain function at the cot side, this new tool will help monitor neurodevelopmental trajectory in premature babies.
