Nathan obtained his Ph.D. at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with Sid Kouider.

He worked as a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena with Christof Koch, and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Geneva with Olaf Blanke.

After two years at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne in Paris, he is now a CNRS scientist at the Laboratoire de Psychologie & Neurocognition in Grenoble.

Most of his current research is dedicated to metAction, an ERC-funded project which aims to document the contribution of sensorimotor signals to metacognition, and develop new remediation procedures.