Nathalie Giroud is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Zurich. She heads the NeuroComm lab where she and her team investigate the neurobiological foundations of language and communication, as well as their changes in mental disorders and neurological diseases.

Nathalie Giroud received her PhD in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Zurich in 2016. Afterwards, she held postdoctoral positions within the University of Zurich's Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging", within Team 17 of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging and at Concordia University in Montréal, followed by a short postdoc in the Speech Signal Processing group at the University of Zurich. In 2020 she obtained a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship studying the impact of hearing impairment on language, cognition, and the brain. Nathalie Giroud's team develops methods to diagnose age-related pathology early and create interventions against hearing and language pathology using state-of-the-art technology and neuroscience.

Nathalie Giroud is currently the director of the competence center Language & Medicine at the University of Zurich. She is also a faculty member of the international Max Planck Research School on “The Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics” as well as the Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ). She has won the Vontobel Award for Research on Age(ing) in 2017 and in 2025. For the term 2021, she held a Global Future Council Fellowship in the Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity of the World Economic Forum (WEF).