Nathalie Rouach is a neurobiologist developing research on the role of glial cells in brain physiology and pathologies. She is a Research Director at Inserm. She received in 2002 her Ph.D. in Neuroscience, performed jointly at Paris 6 University and the Weizmann Institute, where she studied the contribution of astrocytic gap junctional communication to neuroglial network interactions. She then joined the laboratory of Roger Nicoll at the University of California San Francisco as a postdoc, where she worked on glutamate receptors trafficking and synaptic plasticity. She now runs the laboratory « Neuroglial Interactions in Cerebral Physiopathology and Pathologies » at Collège de France. Her research aims at determining whether and how astrocytes play a direct role in information processing. In particular, her team explores the molecular modalities and functional consequences of neuroglial interactions in various physiological and pathological contexts, such as memory, social interactions, epilepsy, or intellectual disability, with ex vivo and in vivo studies of neuronal excitability, synaptic transmission, and plasticity and synchronization of neuronal networks and cognitive functions in mouse models or human tissues. She is a member of several scientific councils and has received several awards including the Human Frontier Career Development award, Silver Medal of the City of Paris, and ERC Consolidator grant. She is the author of 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals.