Pierre MagistrettiPierre J. Magistretti is an internationally-recognized neuroscientist who has made significant contributions in the field of brain energy metabolism. His group has discovered some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the coupling between neuronal activity and energy consumption by the brain.
This work has considerable ramifications for the understanding of the origin of the signals detected with the current functional brain imaging techniques used in neurological and psychiatric research (see for example Magistretti et al, Science, 283: 496 497, 1999). He is the author of over 100 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
He has given over 80 invited lectures at international meetings or at universities in Europe and North America, including the 2000 Talairach Lecture at the Functional Mapping of the Human Brain Conference. In November 2000 he has been a Mc Donnel Visiting Scholar at Washington University School of Medicine.
Pierre J. Magistretti is the President-Elect (2002 2004) of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) which has a membership of over 15000 European neuroscientists. He has been first president of the Swiss Society for Neuroscience (1997-1999) and the first Chairman of the Department of Neurosciences of the University of Lausanne (1996 1998).
Pierre J. Magistretti is Professor of Physiology (since 1988) at the University of Lausanne Medical School. He has been Vice-Dean of the University of Lausanne Medical School from 1996 to 2000. Pierre Magistretti, is Director of the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience of the University of Lausanne and CHUV. He is also Director of the NCCR SYNAPSY "the synaptic bases of mental diseases".
POSITIONS AND HONORS
MAIN POSITION HELD
1988-2004 Professor of Physiology, University of Lausanne Medical School
1996-2000 Vice-Dean for Preclinical Departments, University of Lausanne Medical School
2001-2004 Chairman, Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne Medical School
2004-present Professor and Director, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne Medical School and Hospitals (UNIL-CHUV) (Joint appointment with EPFL)
2005-2008 Professor and Co-Director, Brain Mind Institute, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne (Joint appointment with UNIL-CHUV)
2007-present Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Centre dImagerie Biomédicale (CIBM), an Imaging Consortium of the Universities, University Hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva and of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2008-present Professor and Director, Brain Mind Institute, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne Joint appointment with UNIL-CHUV)
2010-present Director, National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR)
The synaptic bases of mental diseases of the Swiss National Science Foundation
2010-present Secretary General, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
MAIN HONORS AND AWARDS
1997 Recipient of the Theodore-Ott Prize of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
2001 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
2001 Elected Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, ad personam
2002 Recipient of the Emil Kraepelin Guest Professorship, Max Planck Institute für Psychiatry, Münich
2006 Elected Professor at Collège de France, Paris, International Chair 2007-2008
2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship, Canadian Psychological Association
2011 Camillo Golgi Medal Award, Golgi Fondation
2011 Elected Member of the American College of NeuroPsychopharmacology (ACNP)
Simone AstoriEnseignement et PhD A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Silvia Monari, Alessandro Chioino, Loredana Cumpana
Olexiy KochubeyEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Nishant Jana A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Aiste Baleisyte, Denys Osypenko Cours Neural circuits of motivated behaviors BIO-499 Les comportements motivés répondent aux besoins physiologiques des animaux et assurent leur sécurité. Dans ce cours, vous découvrirez les circuits neuronaux qui perçoivent les états internes de l'animal, détectent les dangers potentiels, et organisent des réponses comportementales appropriées.
Kristina SchoonjansExpertise
Bile acid signalingNutrient sensingIntermediary metabolismMetabolic disorders
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Adrien Faure A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Pan Xu, Ece Yildiz, Nadia Bresciani, Yu Sun, Francesca Pontanari, Alejandro Alonso Calleja A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Mitsunori Nomura, Pan Xu, Katyayanee Neopane, Lucie Camille Chanvillard, Jakob Josef Langer, Bilge Sen Elçi Cours Biologie générale BIOENG-110 Le but du cours est de fournir un aperçu général de la b
Dominique BonvinDominique Bonvin is Professor and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory of EPFL. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zürich, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He worked in the field of process control for the Sandoz Corporation in Basel and with the Systems Engineering Group of ETH Zürich. He joined the EPFL in 1989, where his current research interests include modeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems. He served as Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory for the periods 1993-97, 2003-2007 and again since 2012, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1995-97 and Dean of Bachelor and Master Studies at EPFL for the period 2004-2011.
Johan AuwerxEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Wenyu Liu, Maria Boulougouri, Giacomo Vincenzo Giorgio Von Alvensleben A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Pénélope Andreux, Mitsunori Nomura, Evan Graehl Williams, Hongbo Zhang, Virginija Jovaisaite, Elena Katsyuba, Karim Laurent Gariani, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Hao Li, Peiling Luan, Alexis Bachmann, Mario Romani, Xiaoxu Li, Alessia De Masi, Amélia Lalou A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Serge Thanh Son Ducommun, Laura Lukjanenko, Joanna Ratajczak, Angélique Sato
Mackenzie MathisCenter for NeuroprostheticsEPFL ELLIS Unit Faculty MemberCenter for Intelligent Systems
Alexander MathisAlexander studied pure mathematics with a minor in logic and theory of science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. For his PhD also at LMU, he worked on optimal coding approaches to elucidate the properties of grid cells. As a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy at Harvard University and Prof. Matthias Bethge at Tuebingen AI, he decided to study olfactory behaviors such as odor-guided navigation, social behaviors and the cocktail party problem in mice. During this time, he increasingly got interested sensorimotor behaviors beyond olfaction and started working on proprioception, motor adaption, as well as computer vision tools for measuring animal behavior.
In his group, he is interested in elucidating how the brain gives rise to adaptive behavior. One of the major goals is to synthesize large datasets into computationally useful information. For those purposes, he develops algorithms and systems to analyze animal behavior (e.g. DeepLabCut), neural data, as well as creates experimentally testable computational models.
Friedhelm Christoph HummelExpertise
Stroke recoveryHealthy AgingMotor ControlMotor LearningCognitive ControlNeuroplasticityNon-invasive Brain StimulationStructural and functional NeuroimagingConnectivity
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Maria Ploumitsakou, Simona Losacco, Fabienne Windel, Andrea Protani, Stavroula Skarvelaki, Wei Chung Hsu, Rebecca Jane Jones, Beatrice Lugli, Thomas Paul, Paul de Fontenay, Michele Di Ponzio, Léa Kim-mi Ho Dac, Dong Jin Sung, Andrea Nuti, Greta Carnevali A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Rober
