Claire Wardak

Mail

claire.wardak@univ-tours.fr

Projets en cours

Sircus: Social Information pRocessing in Children: an ocUlo-pupillometric tool for Standard evaluation

Financement: ANR-DGOS (ANR-21-CE17-0045) 2021-2026; PI Nadia Aguillon-Hernandez, co-PI Claire Wardak
Partenaires: iBrain (N. Aguillon-Hernandez, C. Wardak, Y. Mofid), LIFAT (G. Venturini, F. Rayar, P. Makris), CHRU de Tours (F. Bonnet-Brilhault, J. Malvy, D. Defresne)
Etudiante en thèse: Camille Ricou (co-direction C. Wardak, N. Aguillon-Hernandez), thèse soutenue en 2025
 

Beyond: Biomarkers, EYe-tracking and NeuroDevelopmental disorders

Financement: 2022-2026 Fondation de France Berthe Fouassier, FEANS, Exac-t; PI Claire Wardak
Etudiant en thèse: Vivien Rabadan (co-direction C. Wardak, N. Aguillon-Hernandez), soutenance prévue en 2026
 

SensAUry: Individual neurophysiological SENSoRY profiles in AUtism

Financement: ANR (ANR-22-CE28-0015) 2022-2026; Fondation individualisée pour la recherche John Bost 2025-2027; PI Claire Wardak
Partenaires: iBrain (C. Wardak, M. Latinus, N. Aguillon-Hernandez, M. Gomot, L. Tuller, P. Prevost, S. Ferre, C. dos Santos, R. Zebib), CHRU de Tours (F. Bonnet-Brilhault, E. Houy-Druand, S. Morel-Kohlmeyer), LaPsyDE (T. Iuculano)
Etudiant en thèse: Mohammad Riaz (co-direction C. Wardak, M. Latinus)
 

Sélection de publications récentes

Rabadan V, Ricou C, Mofid Y, Aguillon-Hernandez N, Wardak C (2026). Pupil behaviour across contexts: from resting oscillations to social reactivity. Int J Psychophysiol. 226:113422. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2026.113422.
Rabadan V, Bufo MR, Ricou C, Aguillon-Hernandez N, Mofid Y, Wardak C (2026). From low-level to high-level factors' influence on pupil hippus. J Neurophysiol. 135(1):51-64. doi: 10.1152/jn.00458.2025.
Ziane C, Wardak C*, Ben Hamed S* (2026). Mind wandering and its relationship with sustained attention and executive functions in preschoolers. J Exp Child Psychol. 262:106372. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106372.
Ricou C, Mofid Y, Roché L, Bufo MR, Houy-Durand E, Malvy J, Lemaire M, Elian JC, Martineau J, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Aguillon-Hernandez N*, Wardak C* (2025). Invariant response to faces in ASD: Unexpected trajectory of oculo-pupillometric biomarkers from childhood to adulthood. Brain Res. 1871:150070. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2025.150070.
Ricou C, Aguillon-Hernandez N, Wardak C (2025). Motion Processing in ASD: From Low-Level Information to Higher-Level Social Information. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 16(4):e70010. doi: 10.1002/wcs.70010.
Bufo MR, Guidotti M, Lemaire M, Malvy J, Houy-Durand E, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Briend F, Aguillon-Hernandez N*, Wardak C* (2025). Autonomic Disequilibrium at Rest in Autistic Children and Adults. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 50(3):465-480. doi: 10.1007/s10484-025-09696-z.
Wardak C, Aguillon-Hernandez N (2025). Pupil Reactivity. In: Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Second Edition), Grafman JH (ed), pp.566-581. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-820480-1.00166-2.
 

Parcours

2017-……: Chargée de Recherche, U1253 iBrain, Inserm – Université de Tours.

2015-2017: Chargée de Recherche, U930 Imagerie et Cerveau, Inserm – Université François-Rabelais Tours. Adjointe à la Rédaction, Médecine/Sciences

2015 : HDR, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1.

2011-2015: Chargée de Recherche,Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive UMR 5229 CNRS-UCBL.

2007-2011: Post-doctorat, Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive UMR 5229 CNRS-UCBL. (S. Ben Hamed)

2004-2007: Post-doctorat, Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. (G. Orban et W. Vanduffel)

2000-2003: Thèse de Neuroscience. Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1. Institut des Sciences Cognitives UMR 5015 CNRS-UCBL. (J-R Duhamel)