She received the Irène Joliot-Curie "Young Female Scientist of the Year" award in 2021 for her work.
[1] She went on to do three post-docs, one at Inserm, then at University of North Carolina and finally at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
There she studied the SRGAP2C gene that appeared at the time when Australopithecus and Homo separated, around 2.4 million years ago.
Charrier's research demonstrated the crucial role that this gene played on the "development of characteristics specific to human synapses, a discovery that determined her subsequent career.
In 2021, the French Academy of Sciences gave her its Irène Joliot-Curie Young Female Scientist of the Year award for her work, citing:[2][4]"The overall theme of Charrier's research is to understand the fundamental mechanisms of synapse development and plasticity and to identify regulations that only exist in humans.