Emilie ZHU

Responsabilités

• 2024-present: PhD student in movement science and neuroscience

Thèmes de recherche

Emilie is conducting doctoral research “Does interactive coordination foster synchronisation skills?” within the project INTERACT funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-23-CE28-0018-01), under the supervision of PhD Valentin Bégel (I3SP). She collaborates with I3SP colleagues (PhD Pauline Maillot, PhD Gwenaelle Ceyte, Prof Gilles Dietrich, PhD Sylvain Hanneton) and international researchers (Prof Sonja Kotz, Maastricht University; PhD Liam Cross and PhD Gray Atherton, University of Plymouth).

The main goal of this project is to boost children’s synchronisation skills with interactive coordination. We will pursue three specific aims: (1) test the social context effect in rhythmic tasks on children’s sensorimotor capacity; (2) test the social context effect in rhythmic tasks on the subsequent linguistic performance; (3) determine the electrophysiological correlates of synchronisation with and without social context.

Key words: rhythm, synchronisation, development, speech, virtual reality, EEG

More at the INTERACT website: https://interact-begel.com/

Parcours

Education

• 2023: Hackathon programme “Hacking Cognition” by PhD Laura Dugué (Université Paris Cité, INCC UMR 8002, CNRS) – Université Paris Cité, Université de Bordeaux, Université Paul Sabatier
• 2021-2023: Master’s degree in Health Biology, Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience specialisation – Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
• 2018-2021: Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences – Université Paris Cité
• 2016-2018: First-Year Common Curriculum in Health (PACES) – Université Paris Cité
• 2016: Scientific General Baccalaureate – Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris

Work experience

• 2023-2024: Research assistant (full-time) – Université Paris Cité, LaPsyDÉ (Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l’Éducation de l’enfant) UMR 8240, CNRS. Collaborations: PhD Irene Altarelli, PhD student Elora Taieb, PhD Angela Pasqualotto (Université de Genève), PhD Emilie Salvia, PhD Ania Aïte
• 2023: Final-year research internship “Serial dependence of social evaluations in brain and behaviour” – Université Paris Cité, INCC (Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center) UMR 8002, CNRS. Supervisors: Prof Thérèse Collins (INCC), Prof Patrick Rateau (EPSYLON lab, EA 4556, Université Montpellier III Paul Valéry)
• 2022: Internship-like research project “Passive stress alters spatial and recognition memory in mice” – Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier. Supervisors: Prof Pascal Roullet, PhD Cédrick Florian

Publications

Collins, T., Zhu, E. & Rateau, P. The neural representation of stereotype content. Sci Rep 14, 16324 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67111-9

Communications

Posters
– 2025: Emilie Zhu, Sonja A Kotz, Lea Hitti, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, et al. Learning rhythm in and out of social context. Congress of the Association des Chercheurs en Activités Physiques et Sportives, Oct 2025, Poitiers,
France, 2025. ⟨hal-05168283⟩
– 2025: Emilie Zhu, Sonja A Kotz, Lea Hitti, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, et al. Learning rhythm in and out of social context. 10th Joint-Action Meeting, Jul 2025, Turin, Italy, 2025. ⟨hal-05168283⟩
– 2020: Educational poster on a biochemistry & physics article (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44051-3) – Université Paris Cité

Oral presentations
– 2023: Best research presentation on INCC Young Researcher’s Day
– 2023: My Internship in 180 seconds – Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier

Autres activités

2024-present: Mentor (volunteering) “Mentorat Vers le Sup” – Article 1 association (helping high-school students in transition to higher education)