Charlotte Cordonnier is a neurologist specialised in stroke medicine with a PhD thesis in Neurosciences. Appointed as Professor of Neurology at the Lille University (France) in 2012, she chairs the department of Neurology of the Lille University Hospital.
Her research interests are intracerebral haemorrhages (including microbleeds) both in the setting of stroke and dementia, acute management of stroke, and stroke specificities in women. She is the director of the Lille Haemorrhagic Stroke research program inside the INSERM U1171.
She was the vice-president of the European Stroke Organisation (2016-2020).
She currently serves as associate editor of the Stroke journal.