Following a bike accident in 2013 that left him tetraplegic, Vance Bergeron re-established his research to focus on a translational approach with the ultimate goal to go cycling again. He participated as an athlete in 2016 in the the first Cybathlon, sort of World Championship of Bionic Sports. He created the non-profit ANTS (Advanced Neuro-rehabilitation Therapies and Sport) to improve the autonomy of disabled people as well as their physical condition and well-being. Gathering regional and international experts, ANTS provide patients with state-of-the-art rehabilitation tools and organize recreational therapies.
Filmed at TEDxClermont, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France, 20/10/2018.
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Dr. Vance Bergeron is a CNRS Research Director in the Physics Department at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. He was born in Hampton, Virginia, USA and received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, followed by a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. Subsequently, in 1993 he was awarded a Chateaubriand fellowship to study in the Laboratoire de Physique at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and a Swedish Institute fellowship at the Royal Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He also worked as a senior research scientist at the chemical company Rhône Poulenc for 5 years. He was appointed to the French National Scientific Research Center (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) in the year 2000. Dr. Bergeron has authored over 50 patents and 150 scientific review papers in the fields of chemistry, physics, indoor air quality and neuro-rehabilitation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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