Dr. Laurent Groc is Research Director (1st class) for the CNRS in the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neurosciences (Bordeaux, France). After receiving his B.S. degree from the University of Toulouse (France), he earned his PhD degree in neurobiology at Wayne State University (MI, USA) and University of Lyon (France), working in the Gossett laboratory of Robert Levine. L. Groc took a postdoctoral training from Bengt Gustafsson and Eric Hanse at the Department of Physiology in the University of Goteborg (Sweden). During this stay, he studied the maturation of glutamatergic synapses, unveiling its high lability. In 2004, he was recruited by the CNRS to pursue his research by combining electrophysiological and single molecule imaging approaches. In 2009, he was promoted Research Director and is currently heading a research group. His laboratory is interested in how developing synapses are formed in health and psychotic diseases. He uses a variety of methods (classical and single molecule imaging, electrophysiological, biochemical, molecular, and behavioral) to investigate the molecular pathways regulating the dynamic organization of synaptic proteins in physiopathological conditions. In ligth of his research achievement, he received several awards, including 2016 Human Frontier Science Program Award, 2015 Dassault Prize, 2015 Foulon Prize (French Academy of Sciences), 2009 Young Investigator (French Academy of Sciences), and 2009 CNRS Bronze Medal.