Bruno Herbelin

Expertise Virtual Reality and cognitive neuroscience Since 10/09 - Scientist Laboratory of cognitive neuroscience Brain & Mind Institute, école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. 06/12 - 10/19 Deputy Director Center for Neuroprosthetics école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. 11/05 - 09/09 Assistant Professor Aalborg University Esbjerg Institute of Technology & Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Denmark. 07/01 - 09/05 Research assistant – PhD student Virtual Reality Laboratory School of Computer and Communications, école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.Developments ExpyVR - Framework for designing and conducting Experiments in Virtual-Reality. http://lnco.epfl.ch/expyvr vimix - Graphic Live Video Mixing software for visual art performance.https://brunoherbelin.github.io/vimix/ Education Dr.Sc. (Ph.D.) | Computer graphics and virtual reality 2005 – 2005 EPFL, CS department, VRLab, Lausanne, CH. Directed by D.Thallmann DEA (M.Sc.) | Computer sciences and artificial intelligence. 2000 – 2000 Louis Pasteur University, LSIIT, Strasbourg, FR. Engineer (M.Sc.) | Computer science, software and knowledge engineering 1997 – 1997 UTBM, CS department, Belfort-Montbeliard, FR. Short Bio Bruno Herbelin is senior researcher in virtual reality and cognitive neuroscience in the laboratory of Prof. O. Blanke at the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2009 (EPFL, Switzerland). From 2012 to 2019, he was deputy director of the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. From 2005 to 2009, he was Assistant Professor at Medialogy Department of Aalborg University, Denmark. He obtained his PhD from EPFL School of Computer and Communications in 2005 for his research work on virtual reality exposure therapy under the supervision of Prof. D. Thallmann (Virtual Reality Laboratory). ResearchResearch topics In the recent years, my research focused on the study of the neural mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness and of the experience of embodiment and presence in virtual reality (VR). My research is at the crossroad of fundamental cognitive neuroscience and engineering, where the development of state of the art VR technologies brings unpreceded opportunities for experimental cognitive neuroscience research, and where the understanding of cognitive mechanisms of perception and consciousness stimulates innovation for the engineering of new VR immersion and interaction paradigms. Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Henrique Galvan Debarba, Thibault Porssut, Mathias Guy Delahaye, Boban Loën