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Team: Our Team
Team Members
Craniofacial
Growth and Form
Hôpital Universitaire
Necker - Enfants Malades
Team leader
Roman Hossein Khonsari
Roman is a consultant maxillofacial surgeon at Necker - Enfants Malades Hospital in the departmet of Pr. Arnaud Picard, and professor of surgery at the Medical School of University of Paris. He is an alumni of the Ecole normale supérieure (E/S 98), graduated from Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and was trained as a surgeon in Nantes in the former department of Pr. Jean Delaire. He obtained a PhD in craniofacial development from King's College London under the supervision of Pr. Paul Sharpe. He is specialized in the surgical management of craniofacial malformations and works with Dr Eric Arnaud, one of the pioneers of this field. Roman is also medical director of the Health Data Hub, the central French medical database, and visiting professor in mechanical engineering at University College London, where he works with Pr. Mehran Moazen on craniofacial growth modeling.
Clinical associate
Giovanna Paternoster
Giovanna is a consultant pediatric neurosurgeon at Necker - Enfants Malades Hospital. She was trained in Rome in the prestigious department of Pr. Concezio di Rocco. Giovanna is specialized in the management of children with craniosynostosis and has special interests in hydrocephalus and cranio-cervical joint anomalies.
Clinical associate
Sandro Benichi
Sandro is a consultant pediatric neurosurgeon at Necker - Enfants Malades Hospital.
Maxime received his PhD in evolutionary biology and biomechanics at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris where he worked on the functional morphology of the skull and lower jaw. His PhD thesis was awarded with the prestigious Prix Solennel de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. He is now working in the lab as a postdoctoral researcher, and focuses on the dysmorphic cranio-cervical junction in syndromic craniosynostoses. His work encompasses very diverse approaches including 3D quantitative investigation of shape variation, kinematics, engineering, additive manufacturing and biomechanical computational modelling. Maxime's work will considerably improve the management of children with syndromic craniosynostoses. His fellowship is funded by the Mairie de Paris - dispositif Emergence(s).
Data Scientist Engineer
Thomas Bongibault
Thomas is an AI engineer from ESME Sudria. During his internship and still today, he works on the AIDY project under the supervision of PhD student Quentin Hennocq, Pr. Khonsari and Nicolas Garcelon, head data manager at Imagine Institute. Thomas works on
AI-based methods for the detection and automatic classification of craniofacial malformations (especially on external ears) within our large clinical 2D-photography database.
Biomechanical Engineer
Francois-Gael Djate
François is an engineering student from ESME Sudria, who joined the lab for his end-of-studies internship. His mission is to contribute to some aspects of AIDY project, under the supervision of PhD student Quentin Hennocq, Nicolas Garcelon head data manager at Imagine institute and Pr. Khonsari. He is working on texture based visual descriptors for classification and detection of facial dysmorphisms from 2D photographs representing patients’ face, profiles, and ears.
Thomas is an AI engineer from ESME Sudria. During his internship and still today, he works on the AIDY project under the supervision of PhD student Quentin Hennocq, Pr. Khonsari and Nicolas Garcelon, head data manager at Imagine Institute. Thomas works on
AI-based methods for the detection and automatic classification of craniofacial malformations (especially on external ears) within our large clinical 2D-photography database.
Thomas is an AI engineer from ESME Sudria. During his internship and still today, he works on the AIDY project under the supervision of PhD student Quentin Hennocq, Pr. Khonsari and Nicolas Garcelon, head data manager at Imagine Institute. Thomas works on
AI-based methods for the detection and automatic classification of craniofacial malformations (especially on external ears) within our large clinical 2D-photography database.
Biomechanical Engineer
Ombline Delassus
Ombline is a biomechanical engineer from the EPF Ecole d'Ingénieurs. She is currently doing a PhD under the supervision of Mr Khonsari, Mr Mangin, director of the UMR BAOBAB at Neurospin, and Mr Germanaud, member of the InDEV team at Neurospin. Ombline is working on the study of brain structure in syndromic craniofacial malformations using classical morphometric tools and specialised tools developed at Neurospin and applied to the clinical and imaging cohort of the Reference Center for Craniostenosis and Craniofacial Malformations. Her thesis is funded by the Imagine Institute.
PhD student
Quentin Hennocq
Quentin is a maxillofacial surgeon currently involved in a 3-year PhD program under the supervision of Mr Khonsari and Nicolas Garcelon, head data manager at Imagine Institute. Quentin works on AI-based methods to assess craniofacial malformations on 2D pictures from the very large clinical photography database of Necker - Enfants Malades Hospital. He works in close collaboration with the AIDY project (Dr Marlène Rio, Department of Medical Genetics). Quentin is funded by the CRI - Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires.
PhD student
Maya Geoffroy
Maya is a mechanical engineer from EPF Ecole d’ingénieur-e-s. She is currently a PhD student co-supervised by Pr. Khonsari and Pr. Sébastien Laporte, head of the Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak at Arts et Métiers Sciences et technologies. Maya's PhD is funded by the Parisian start-up BONE 3D, where she works with mechanical engineer Pierre-Marc François. Maya develops various skull growth models of single-suture craniosynostoses. The work of Maya will ultimately lead to the development of automated methods of surgical planning in craniofacial surgery, and more precisely in forehead remodeling.
PhD student
Anne Morice
Anne is an assistant professor in the maxillofacial surgery unit of Necker - Enfants Malades Hospital where she focuses on cleft repair. She is currently a PhD student under the co-supervision of Mr Khonsari and Laurence Legeai-Mallet, PI at Imagine Institute. Anne works on bone regeneration in mouse models with FGFR mutations and uses geometric morphometric tools to assess mandibular shape. The first results of her PhD have recently been published in Bone.
MSc student
Adèle Rohée - Traoré
Adèle Rohée-Traoré, an intern in maxillofacial surgery, is doing a research year for a master's degree in the cranial shape and growth laboratory. She is working on the development of a 3D cranio-maxillofacial phenotyping methodology, in particular via the study of Job, Stickler and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.
MSc student
Ezgi Cetin
Ezgi is a master's student in Medicine from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. She joined the lab in October 2022 to work on a project as a part of her master's research for six months. Her project consists of further developing a biomechanical model of the mastication muscles in children upon 24 months of age. The aim is to analyse the masticatory muscles and their relationship to the shape of the skull in children during growth, to better understand the interplay between muscles and bones of the skull.
MSc student
Feline Steup
Feline is a masters student in Medicine from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, focusing her master research internship of six months on the subject of syndromic craniosynostosis. In particular her research concerns the relationship between the shape of the internal skull surface and anatomical anomalies of the brain in these patients. Her internship is under supervision of and in collaboration with PhD student Ombline Delassus and Pr. Roman Khonsari.
Medical Illustrator student
Emma Blanc-Tailleur
Emma arrived at the laboratory in February 2022. She is a student at the Estienne school in Paris where she is specialised in scientific and medical illustration. Her expertise allows her to translate complex medical concepts in an efficient and attractive way. It is through didactic and pedagogical illustrations that she uses her skills in the laboratory.
Former MSc student
Kevin Bloch
Kevin is a maxillofacial surgeon who worked for a year from Nov. 2019 to Nov. 2020 in the lab as a MSc student. Kevin contributed to the design of a growth model for trigonocephaly. His work was co-supervised by Mr Khonsari and Sébastien Laporte, and has supported the PhD project of Maya Geoffroy.
Former MSc student
Alexandre Amiot
Alexandre is an engineer from ISEP. He is currently involved in an MSc program (Ingénierie de la Santé, parcours Bio-Imaging) at University of Paris. Alexandre is co-supervised by Mr Khonsari and Pierre-Marc François from BONE 3D. Alexandre works on AI-based segmentation methods for Black Bone MRI images. His work wil contribute to the PhD of Maya Geoffroy.
Former MSc student
Marine Cheval
Marine is a maxillofacial surgeon from Toulouse University Hospital. She is currently involved in an MSc project exploring the morphogenesis of the external ear cartilage using mouse synchrotron microtomography and transparentized human embryos. She works with Alain Chédotal at Institut de la Vision in Paris and Abigail Tucker from King's College London. Marine is funded by a joint grant Université de Paris / King's College London.
Former MSc student
Meryem Abbad Andaloussi
Meryem is an engineer from ENSEIRB-MATMECA. She is currently involved in an MSc program (Biomécanique) at Arts et Métiers ParisTech under the supervision of Pr. Sébastien Laporte. She works with PhD student Maya Geoffroy for the conception of FEA models of skull growth in single-suture craniosynostoses.
Former MSc Student
Jeanne L'Helgouach
Jeanne is a mechanical engineering student at ENSTA. She worked for 4 months in the lab in 2020 and used Deformetrica to assess skull vault anomalies in intentional deformations.
Former MSc Student
Inès Mehdaoui
Inès will start her internship in May 2022. She is a student engineer in biomedical and health engineering in her second year at EPISEN of the University of Paris Est Créteil. She is working on the multiple sclerosis project with Théodore Soulier at La Pitié Salpétrière (brain institute). Her mission is to create a database by analysing slides of patients suffering from concentric sclerosis of Balo by image processing in order to use these data with a mathematical model allowing the prediction of the growth of multiple sclerosis.
Former MSc Student
Laura Laliève
Laura is an engineering student at ESME-Sudria. She worked for 4 months in the lab in 2020 and contributed to the settlement of the 3D printing facility. She also worked hard for the large 3D printing project launched by AP-HP during the first wave of the pandemic. She returned in 2022 to work on the craniocervical hinge.
Former MSc Student
Claire Ginoux
Claire is a student engineer in biomechanics and medical robotics at ESME Sudria. She joined the laboratory in April 2022 for his end-of-studies internship. Her project consists in the realization of a biomechanical model of the masticatory muscles in children from 0 to 2 years old and to study the relations between these muscles and the shape of the skull.
Former MSc Student
Brenda Dufaud-Virginie
Brenda is a student engineer in
Bac +4 at ESME Sudria specialized in Biotech & Digital. She will join the laboratory for a 3-month internship in June 2022 and her mission will be to geometrically model the temporomandibular joint between 0 and 2 years of life from scanner images.
Former MSc Student
Angèle Ganet
Angèle is an engineering student at Sup'Biotech and ESME Sudria. She joined the laboratory in March 2022. Her work consists in modelling the growth and biomechanics of the craniovertebral junction (CVJ) in children aged 0 to 18.
Former MSc Student
Victor Akpaloo
Laura is an engineering student at ESME-Sudria. She worked for 4 months in the lab in 2020 and contributed to the settlement of the 3D printing facility. She also worked hard for the large 3D printing project launched by AP-HP during the first wave of the pandemic. She returned in 2022 to work on the craniocervical hinge.
Laura is an engineering student at ESME-Sudria. She worked for 4 months in the lab in 2020 and contributed to the settlement of the 3D printing facility. She also worked hard for the large 3D printing project launched by AP-HP during the first wave of the pandemic. She returned in 2022 to work on the craniocervical hinge.
Victor is a masters student of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Paris. He received his Bachelor's degree also in Biomedical Engineeging from KNUST, Ghana. His general interest is in the field of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics. He joined the lab in April of 2022 and works on a project that seeks to study the ontogenic characteristics of temporal muscles to give informed interpretations to cranofacial malformations.
Former MSc Student
Thomas McClymont
Tom is a master's student at Université Paris Cité (formerly Université de Paris) studying Biomedical Engineering. In April, he arrived at the lab and is working on developing a mobile diagnostic application for cranial deformities, specifically Positional Plagiocephaly. The application will communicate between parents and clinicians, using the collected data to build a database for future AI-based diagnostic tools.
Former BSc student
Céleste de la Fouchardière
Céleste is an MSc student (Biology - Health) engaged in an MD-PhD program at the University of Poitiers. Céleste is part of the craniofacial malformations and AI-based methods research team, with PhD student Quentin Hennocq.
Former BSc student
Thomas Dai Pra
Thomas is an MSc student (Biology - Health) engaged in an MD-PhD program at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris Ouest). Thomas is part of the craniofacial malformations and AI-based methods research team, with PhD student Quentin Hennocq.
Former BSc student
Matthieu Bizière
Matthieu is an engineer from EPF. His MSc is co-supervised by Mr Khonsari and PhD student Quentin Hennocq. Matthieu works on the automatic classification of profile picture within our large clinical photography database and on the detection of external ear malformations.
Former BSc student
Lorine Rodrigues
Lorine is an MSc student (Biologie - Santé) involved in an MD-PhD program at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris Ouest). Lorine works on AI-based methods for the diagnosis of ear malformations, with PhD student Quentin Hennocq.
Former BSc students
Paul Fourdrinoy - Eva Martin Nathanaël Lahary
Paul Fourdrinoy is an engineer from EPF. He participated at the segmentation of the MRI Black Bone on craniostenosis to update the current database which is used by Maya Geoffroy and Alexandre Amiot.
Former BSc Student
Janany Kamalanadhan
Former BSc students
Samy Collet - Matthieu Gros
Laëtitia Hoang
Samy and Matthieu are engineering students at Arts et Métiers ParisTech and Laëtitia is an engineering student at EPF. They spent three months in the lab during the summer 2020 segmenting Black Bone MRI images in order to augment our database and prepare AI-based segmentation approaches.
Former BSc Students
Ségolène Semilinko - Linda Ek Fliesberg - Gemma Carulla Tous
Former intern
Gaelle Guillon
Gaelle is an engineer from ISIFC. She worked for 4 months in the lab in 2019 and investigated the reglementary issues related to medical 3D printing when we first started using the printers.
Former Post-doctoral fellow
Hugo Dutel
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