François Ansermet

Professor François Ansermet is Professor Emeritus of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Geneva and at the University of Lausanne; Former Director of the De-partment of psychiatry, University of Geneva; Former Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of Geneva, after having first held the posts of full Professor of child dabs adolescent psychiatry at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at UNIL, and Head of the University Depart-ment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV).

Psychoanalyst, member of the Word Association of Psychoanalysis. From 2013- to 2021, member of the French National Ethics Committee (CCNE) in Paris.

Research activities in the field of perinatal clinical practice, in particular prenatal and perinatal trauma; consequences of new advances in biotechnologies in the area of medically assisted re-production, pre-conception and perinatal predictive medicine; variations of sex development (intersexuality) and gender incongruence; collaboration with the Fondation Children Action, Geneva, particularly programs focusing on suicide, and teenage pregnancy; trans-lational research with neurobiology and links between the neurosciences and psychoanal-ysis; as well as links between the arts, sciences and psychoanalysis, within the Agalma Foundation in Geneva ( www.agalma.ch )