Stéphanie LacourStéphanie P. Lacour holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology in the School of Engineering at EPFL and leads the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from INSA de Lyon, France, and completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge. She is the recipient of the 2006 MIT TR35, a University Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, European Research Council ERC Starting and POC Grants, and a SNSF-ERC Consolidator Grant. She was elected a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Andrzej KulikExpertise
Experimental Biophysics,nanomechanics,nanomanipulation in 2D and 3D,nanotribology,Atomic Force Microscopy,Optical Tweezers,Photonic Force Microscopy,nano Infrared Spectroscopy (nanoIR),Acoustics,Ultrasound,
Expertise
Experimental Biophysics,nanomechanics,nanomanipulation in 2D and 3D,nanotribology,Atomic Force Microscopy,Optical Tweezers,Photonic Force Microscopy,nano Infrared Spectroscopy (nanoIR),Acoustics,Ultrasound,
Alexandre SchmidEnseignement et PhD A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Mahsa Shoaran, Wen-Yang Hsu, Reza Ranjandish, Keyvan Farhang Razi, Mohammad Javad Karimi A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Milos Stanisavljevic, Neil Joye, Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar, Hossein Afshari, Nikola Katic, Abdulkadir Akin Cours Analog circuits for biochip EE-518 Introduction à la conception analogique CMOS pour des biocapteurs à distance sur puce. Compréhension et la conception de systèmes de biocapteurs actifs et alimentés à distance. Compré
Bernard SchneiderEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Yesica Gloria, Christian Schellhaas A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Vanessa Laversenne, Sameer Mohammad Khaleel Nazeeruddin, Emma Charlotta Källstig A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Philippe Guillaume Coune, Emilda Pino, Elisabeth Anne Dirren, Aurélien Lathuilière, Wojciech Janusz Bobela, Lu Zheng, Cylia Cloé Rochat Cours Methods: from disease models to therapy BIOENG-518 Ce cours décrira les méthodes qui sont à la base des approches translationnelles
Gioele La MannoEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Albert Dominguez Mantes, Xinyi Huang, Laura Lapeña Gil, Alessandro Valente, Luca Fusar Bassini, Hao-An Hsiung, Alireza Gargoorimotlagh, Morgane Alice Storey, Rosan Martine Hans, María Cristina Loureiro Casalderrey, Lada Polyakova A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Alex Russell Lederer, Irina Khven A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Alexandre Coudray, Alex Russell Lederer, Halima Hannah Emilie Schede, Irina Khven Cours Biological data science I: statistical learning
Gaspard PardonDr. Gaspard Pardon graduated with a MSc in Microengineering from EPFL in 2008, with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His graduate research focussed on the engineering of novel micro- and nanofluidic devices for rapid Point-of-Care diagnostics of infectious diseases, including the detection of airborne pathogens.
In 2016, Gaspard moved to the Silicon Valley in California where he conducted a postdoc at Stanford University. There, he developed novel in vitro cardiac models, a.k.a. organ-on-chip, using cardiac cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells. He focussed his research and technological developments on the study of genetic cardiomyopathies, including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Since March 2021, Gaspard joined EPFL to become Head of the Bioengineering and Technology platform at the AGORA Translational Cancer Research Center. This platform aims to provide infrastructure and support in the use, development and translation of bioengineering technologies and to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations centered around bioengineering between the researchers from the partner institution: CHUV, HUG, UNIL, EPFL, Ludwig Cancer Research Center and ISREC, as well as with industrial partners in the biotech and pharma industry.
Arnaud BertschExpertise
MicrostereolithographiePhotopolymersMicrofabrication
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Tao Zhang, Pol Torres Vila, Nicolas Bruno Minazzo A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Joan Teixidor, Clémentine Sophie Sarah Lipp, Nicolas Grégoire Maïno, Jiande Zhou, Jongeon Park Cours Advanced microfabrication practicals MICRO-373 Ce TP permet une formation approfondie sur les méthodes avancées de micro et nanofabrication dans un environnement de salle blanche pour des applications séle
Graham KnottEnseignement et PhD Cours Methods: from disease models to therapy BIOENG-518 Ce cours décrira les méthodes qui sont à la base des approches translationnelles depuis la génération et la caractérisation des modèles des maladies jusqu'aux applications thérapeutiques. Les bases théoriques seront complétées par des rotations pratiques dans les plateformes technologiques.
Henry MarkramEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Davide Bella A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Tania Rinaldi, Jean-Vincent Le Bé, Michele Pignatelli, Thomas Berger, Luca Gambazzi, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Imad Riachi, Muhammad Asif Jan, Rajnish Ranjan, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Georges Khazen, Vincent Delattre, Mônica Favre, Shruti Muralidhar, Michael Reimann, Jean Pierre Ghobril, Renaud Luc Richardet, Marwan Abdellah, Willem Wybo, Csaba Erö, Lida Kanari, Giuseppe Chindemi, Berat Denizdurduran, Max Nolte, Taylor Howard N
Auke IjspeertAuke Ijspeert is a full professor at the EPFL, and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). He has a B.Sc./M.Sc. in physics from the EPFL (1995), and a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (1999). He carried out postdocs at IDSIA and EPFL, and at the University of Southern California (USC). He then became a research assistant professor at USC, and an external collaborator at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research institute) in Japan. In 2002, he came back to the EPFL as an SNF assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in October 2009 and to full professor in April 2016. His primary affiliation is with the Institute of Bioengineering, and secondary affiliation with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are at the intersection between robotics, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, and machine learning. He is interested in using numerical simulations and robots to get a better understanding of sensorimotor coordination in animals, and in using inspiration from biology to design novel types of robots and adaptive controllers. (see for instance Ijspeert et al Science 2007, Ijspeert Science 2014, and Nyakatura et al Nature 2019). He is also investigating how to assist people with limited mobility using exoskeletons and assistive furniture. He is regularly invited to give talks on these topics (e.g. TED talk given at TED Global Geneva, Dec 8 2015). With his colleagues, he has received paper awards at ICRA2002, CLAWAR2005, IEEE Humanoids 2007, IEEE ROMAN 2014, CLAWAR 2015, SAB2018, and CLAWAR 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow, member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and for Soft Robotics (2018-2021). He was a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 7 international conferences (BioADIT2004, SAB2004, AMAM2005, BioADIT2006, LATSIS2006, SSRR2016, AMAM2019), and a program committee member of over 50 conferences.
Giuseppe SchiavoneEnseignement et PhD Cours Neural interfaces NX-422 Les interfaces neurales sont des systèmes bioélectroniques qui interfacent le système nerveux avec les technologies numériques. Ce cours présente leurs principaux éléments (transducteurs, instrumentation et communication) et passe en revue les matériaux et solutions technologiques actuels et futurs. Soft Microsystems Processing and Devices MICRO-618
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)
