Thomas Boraud is an electrophysiologist. After a Medical thesis in 1999 and a PhD in Neurosciences in 2000 in Bordeaux, France, he completed a postdoc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He went back in Bordeaux in late 2001 to take a full position of CNRS Researcher (permanent research position). He dedicates his work to the study of the physiology and the physiopathology of the motor control brain functions. He was the first one to develop a multi-channel setup for deep brain structure recordings in awake primates in France with the methods he borrowed from his post doc. He has published more 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals.