Gregoire Borst is a full Professor of developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience of education at the University Paris Cité. He is the director of the Child Development and Education Lab (CNRS) at La Sorbonne and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His work focuses on the role of cognitive control on the cognitive and socio-emotional development of children and adolescents and on learning at school.
He has published more than 90 articles and 9 books. He works is a visiting scientist at MGIEP – UNESCO. He is the co-director of an interdisciplinary research network on Education and learning of 100 labs and 700 researchers in France. He is also the co-director of the 10-year research program on the Sciences for Education in France.
In 2021, he received the Daignan-Bouveret Prize from the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his research on the science of learning.