Ludovico Saint Amour di Chanaz Ph.D.
Ludovico Saint Amour di Chanaz, Ph.D., was born in Rome, Italy, in 1994 to a French mom and an Italian dad. Following a French education in Italy, then Greece, he moved to Paris to pursue a Bachelor's in Biology at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), followed by the Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences at UCL and the Ecole Normale Superiruere of Paris. During this time, he became interested in the field of memory formation, working with Prof Hugo Spiers on spatial memory, and then with Prof. Pascale Piolino on memory formation and gender identity.
Ludovico Saint Amour di Chazaz completed his Ph.D by working with Prof. Lluis Fuentemilla and Dr. Alexis Peréz-Bellido at the University of Barcelona focused on memory formation and retrieval in the hippocampus of epileptic patients. During this time, Ludovico invented a new method of analysis of neurophysiological data and published findings on core memory processes in Current Biology. He obtained his Ph.D with Magna Cum Laude.
In the last year of his thesis, he started working for the YouTube channel Sprouts Schools. He learned to simplify and explain complex scientific ideas in a way that was understandable to people of any age and background. Around the same time, he was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder and started his social media platforms to increase awareness about this condition.
Determined to make life easier for neurodivergent individuals, he became a thought leader in neurodivergent spaces and learned tools to help others deal with their brains. He obtained a Coaching Certification and then became a certified Process Communication Model Trainer—a model of communication based on Transactional Analysis and the works of Dr. Eric Berne and Dr. Taibi Kahler.
In early 2025, Ludovico released his first book about ADHD, The ADHD User's Manual, creating one of the best-referenced books on ADHD to date that is also easy to read and understand by non-academics.
A quote from Ludovico: "Something invaluable that I learned is that being neurodivergent and suffering from a neurodivergence are two very different things. The first is completely out of our control. Our brain develops that way—or doesn't. The second is, to some extent, a choice. And we can choose to claw our way out of the abyss."