Dr. Neunlist earned an Engineering Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg in 1990 and a PhD in electrophysiology in 1994 at University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. During his postdoctoral position in the laboratory headed by Michael Scheman in Hannover, Germany, he specialized in the field of neurogastroenterology. Since 2007, he has directed an Inserm laboratory devoted to the study of enteric nervous system in gut and brain diseases at Nantes University.