Jerome Lecoq.

Jérôme Lecoq

Associate investigator
The Allen Institute

Jérôme Lecoq is an associate investigator at the Allen Institute. His research focuses on building platforms such as OpenScope, which provides open-access, real-time recordings of brain activity to deepen our understanding of cortical computation.

He previously conducted postdoctoral research in Mark Schnitzer’s lab at Stanford University, developing advanced imaging techniques to observe large neuronal populations in the visual cortex of behaving mice. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Pierre and Marie Curie University and an M.S. in physics from ESPCI ParisTech.

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