Dr. Thibaut is a physical therapist (2010) who specialized in neuroscience (2011) and obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences in 2015. She is a research associate FRS-FNRS (tenured since 2021), associate professor at the ULiège (Belgium), and leads the NeuroRecovery Lab, GIGA-Neuroscience, ULiège together with Prof Nicolas Lejeune.
Her research focuses on neuromodulation techniques to enhance neural activity in brain-injured patients, combining neuroimaging and electrophysiology to objectify brain plasticity. She has conducted 10 clinical trials, including international multicenter studies. Following her PhD, she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Harvard Medical School (Prof. Fregni), deepening her expertise in non-invasive brain stimulation.
She has published over 190 papers in PubMed-indexed journals, including The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, and Nature Reviews Neurology, has an H-index of 54, and has given numerous invited talks at international conferences.
Beyond research, Dr. Thibaut is an associate professor at ULiège, invited lecturer at ULB, and since 2026, co-chair of the IBIA DOC-SIG with Dr. Schnakers. Clinically, she contributed to the elaboration of the Concussion Care Pathway at the University Hospital of Liège in 2020, which she coordinated until 2024, and continues to be actively involved in the clinical assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness.