Q: What is Nicolas P. Rougier's primary area of scientific research?

A: He specializes in computational and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on how the structures of the nervous system process information to facilitate brain function.

Q: What open-source software projects is he associated with?

A: He is the creator of mu4e-dashboard for Emacs and serves as the maintainer for the mail notification tool GNUbiff.

Q: Which institutions has he been affiliated with?

A: He has held positions at the INRIA Bordeaux–Sud-Ouest research centre and the Neurodegeneratives Diseases Institute, and he was educated at Henri Poincaré University and the École supérieure d'informatique et applications de Lorraine.

Nicolas P. Rougier

researcher in computational and cognitive neuroscience supporting free software and open science

Person human Q56876105

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Instance of: human
Sex or gender: male^[12]
Date of birth: 1972
Country of citizenship: France^[5]
Occupation: neuroscientist, researcher, programmer
Employer: Neurodegeneratives Diseases Institute, INRIA Bordeaux–Sud-Ouest research centre (2013–present)^[9]^[10]
Field of work: computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience^[6]^[7]
Position held: GNUbiff maintainer^[8]
Educated at: École supérieure d'informatique et applications de Lorraine (1993–1996), Henri Poincaré University (1997–2000)
Official website: www.labri.fr
Website: www.labri.fr
Birth date: 1972
Citizenship: France
Doctoral advisor: Frédéric Alexandre^[11]
Languages spoken, written or signed: French, English
Family name: Rougier^[15]
Github username: rougier
Given name: Nicolas^[16]
Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
Movement: free software movement, open science movement^[13]^[14]
Social media followers: 776 (754–776, n=3)
Viaf id: 218502815

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🔖 Identifiers · 17

ISNI: 0000000359688543
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6972-589X
VIAF cluster ID: 218502815
Library of Congress authority ID: no95019283
DBLP author ID: 34/5686
GitHub account: rougier
Goodreads author ID: 16318102
HAL author ID: nicolas-p-rougier
IdRef ID: 135648459
LinkedIn personal profile ID: nicolas-rougier-80018658
Loop ID: 2410
MR Author ID: 781516

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Mastodon address: rougier@toot.aquilenet.fr (2022–present)
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 182930
Open Library ID: OL12118558A
Scopus author ID: 12344787800
ZbMATH author ID: rougier.nicolas-p

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Occupation 4

programmer, researcher, software engineer, neuroscientist

← Maintained by 4

emacs-svg-lib, GNUbiff, minibuffer-header, mu4e-dashboard

Field of work 2

cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience

Languages spoken, written or signed 2

English, French

← Copyright holder 2

GNUbiff, mu4e-dashboard

← Creator 2

GNUbiff, mu4e-dashboard

Country of citizenship 1

France

Employer 1

INRIA Bordeaux–Sud-Ouest research centre

Given name 1

Nicolas

Instance of 1

human

Maintained by WikiProject 1

WikiProject Mathematics

Movement 1

free software movement

Sex or gender 1

male

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Summary

Nicolas P. Rougier was born in 1972^[1]. He worked as a neuroscientist^[2], researcher^[3], and programmer^[4].

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Career and Affiliations

Employers include Neurodegeneratives Diseases Institute^[9], a French UMR^[17], in France^[18], founded in 2011^[19] and INRIA Bordeaux–Sud-Ouest research centre^[10], a government agency^[20], in France^[21], founded in 2008^[22].

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What did Nicolas P. Rougier do for work?

Nicolas P. Rougier worked as neuroscientist^[2], researcher^[3], and programmer^[4].

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[12] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — sex or gender (P21): male. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — country of citizenship (P27): France. SUDOC. Retrieved 2022-01-06. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — position held (P39): GNUbiff maintainer. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — field of work (P101): computational neuroscience. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — field of work (P101): cognitive neuroscience. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — occupation (P106): neuroscientist. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — occupation (P106): researcher. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — occupation (P106): programmer. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — employer (P108): Neurodegeneratives Diseases Institute. ORCID Public Data File 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-10. pub.orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — employer (P108): INRIA Bordeaux–Sud-Ouest research centre. ORCID Public Data File 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-10. pub.orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — movement (P135): free software movement. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — movement (P135): open science movement. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — doctoral advisor (P184): Frédéric Alexandre. Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — date of birth (P569): 1972. IdRef. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — family name (P734): Rougier. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Nicolas P. Rougier — given name (P735): Nicolas. wikidata.org.

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