Doctor David Belin, a renowned specialist in Behavioral Neuroscience, has left a significant mark in international research. In fact, already during his PhD, he revolutionized the field by developing the first preclinical model of Cocaine Addiction, based on human clinical criteria.

This prestigious scientist has dedicated a large part of his professional career to the field of scientific innovation, combining advanced techniques, from Experimental Psychology to precise brain manipulations and molecular studies. All this with the aim of unraveling the neural substrates of Impulsive/Compulsive Disorders, such as Drug Addiction and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Likewise, his career took a transcendental turn when he joined the laboratory of Professor Barry Everitt at the University of Cambridge. His pioneering research on the Corticostriatal Mechanisms of Cocaine Seeking, as well as the relationships between impulsivity and compulsive self-administration of the drug, broadened the global understanding of individual vulnerability to addiction.

Dr. Belin also obtained tenure at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) in France. There, he established a research team in Poitiers, which focused on the Neural and Cellular Mechanisms of Vulnerability to Compulsive Disorders. Although he has never stopped his research on the Neural and Psychological Mechanisms of Compulsive Disorders, he has never stopped his research on the Neural and Psychological Mechanisms of Compulsive Disorders. 

With more than 75 publications, he has been awarded the Mémain-Pelletier Prize of the French Académie des Sciences and the Young Investigator Award of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society. He was one of the first members of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, an international network of young scientists supporting neuroscience research.

• Researcher at the University of Cambridge
• Researcher at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM).
• Mémain-Pelletier Award of the Académie des Sciences
• Young Investigator Award of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society
• PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Bordeaux 2
• Graduate in Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology, University of Bordeaux
• Member of: 
  
  • Homerton College
  • FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence