Team Members

Roman Hossein Khonsari

Team leader

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.

Maxime Taverne

Post-doctoral fellow

Maxime works on the growth of the cranio-cervical junction and builds anatomical models of this anatomical region. He received his PhD at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris where he worked on the biomechanics of the skull and lower jaw. Maxime's work will considerably improve the management of children with syndromic craniosynostoses. Maxime is funded by the Mairie de Paris - dispositif Emergence(s).

Giovanna Paternoster

Clinical associate

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.

Quentin Hennocq

PhD student

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.

Maya Geoffroy

PhD student

Maya is a mechanical engineer from EPF. She is currently a PhD student co-supervised by Mr Khonsari and Pr. Sébastien Laporte, head of the Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak at Arts et Métiers ParisTech. 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, and develops AI-based approaches for bone segmentation on MRI images. 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.

Anne Morice

PhD student

Anne is a 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.

Marine Cheval

MSc student

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.

Alexandre Amiot

MSc student

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.

Matthieu Bizière

MSc student

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.

Lorine Rodrigues

MSc student

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.

Thomas Dai Pra

MSc student

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.

Thomas Bongibault

MSc student

Thomas is an AI engineer from ESME Sudria. His MSc is co-supervised by Mr Khonsari and PhD student Quentin Hennocq. Thomas works on AI-based methods for the detection and automatic classification of ears malformations within our large clinical 2D-photography database. 

Céleste de la Fouchardière

MSc student

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.

Meryem Abbad Andaloussi

MSc student

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.

Kevin Bloch

Former MSc student

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.

Samy Collet
Matthieu Gros
Laëtitia Hoang

Former BSc students

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 Balck Bone MRI images in order to augment our database and prepare AI-based segmentation approaches.

Jeanne L'Helgouach

Former intern

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.