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Michel Thiebaut de Schotten work, which includes >100 peer review articles, spans the whole gamut from novel neuroimaging methodologies to experimental work to theory. Critically, he dedicates significant effort toward the clinical translation of his work through an open model approach that makes his tools freely accessible to the community. His PhD in Paris, la Salpêtrière, published in Science (2005) showed the first demonstration in humans that hemispatial neglect could be reversibly produced by disconnecting the white matter. Today, operating rooms worldwide use his assessment to prevent spatial attention deficits after surgery. During his postdoc at King's College London, he mapped white matter anatomy in the healthy human living brain through a series of influential studies, which led to the publication of the Atlas of the Human Brain Connections. As a tenured researcher at the Paris Brain Institute, he developed the BCBtoolkit software suite, a set of programs for computing disconnections made freely available to the scientific and clinical communities. Recently, in Bordeaux as the head of the neuroimaging department, he has explored the role of white matter connections in defining functional areas. Most recently, he published his first Atlas of the function of white matter as well as a new software the "functionnectome" that unravels the contribution of white matter circuits to function. His latest theoretical point of view on the functioning of the brain is extensively illustrated in his review published in Science last year and entitled "the emergent properties of the connected brain".