Gilles Allali

Gilles Allali is a Full Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Faculty of Biology and Medicine, since August 1, 2021. He serves as Director of the Leenaards Memory Center at CHUV, where he leads research on the intersection of motor and cognitive functions in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

His research focuses on the relationships between motor functions and cognitive abilities, particularly gait control, and pathological aging. Through international collaborations, he has identified clinical and biological markers that improve early detection of dementia. Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), his work has advanced the diagnosis of reversible dementias, especially normal pressure hydrocephalus. During the pandemic, he investigated neurological complications of SARS-CoV-2, such as cerebrovascular damage and virus-related encephalopathy.

Gilles Allali has no listed scientific awards in the provided text.

He has supervised no publicly listed students. There is no mention of research grants beyond SNSF support or specific labs or teams, though he leads the Leenaards Memory Center. His career includes a fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York (2013–2015), and he became a private lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, in 2016.