Diane PICARD-DUBOIS, speech-language therapist, PhD, has been a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Health of Sorbonne University since September 2025.
A clinical speech-language therapist since 2015, alongside her teaching and research activities she also maintains a clinical practice in ENT (ear, nose, and throat), working with patients presenting neurosensory disorders.
Her research focuses on emotional contagion, particularly on facial feedback mechanisms in cases of peripheral neurosensory impairment. Within an embodied approach to social cognition, she is more broadly interested in the perception and production of emotions, in both children and adults. Her PhD thesis, defended at Sorbonne University in 2020, explored the application of the neurocognitive model of emotional contagion to peripheral facial paralysis.
