Carl PetersenCarl Petersen studied physics as a bachelor student in Oxford (1989-1992). During his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir Michael Berridge in Cambridge (1992-1996), he investigated cellular and molecular mechanisms of calcium signalling. In his first postdoctoral period (1996-1998), he joined the laboratory of Prof. Roger Nicoll at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to investigate synaptic transmission and plasticity in the hippocampus. During a second postdoctoral period, in the laboratory of Prof. Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg (1999-2003), he began working on the primary somatosensory barrel cortex, investigating cortical circuits and sensory processing. Carl Petersen joined the Brain Mind Institute of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003, setting up the Laboratory of Sensory Processing to investigate the functional operation of neuronal circuits in awake mice during quantified behavior. In 2019, Carl Petersen became the Director of the EPFL Brain Mind Institute, with the goal to promote quantitative multidisciplinary research into neural structure, function, dysfunction, computation and therapy through technological advances.
Felix SchürmannFelix Schürmann is co-director of the Blue Brain Project and involved in several research challenges of the European Human Brain Project. He studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, supported by the German National Academic Foundation. Later, as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained his Master's degree (M.S.) in Physics from the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, under the supervision of Richard Gonsalves. During these studies, he became curious about the role of different computing substrates and dedicated his master thesis to the simulation of quantum computing. He studied for his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, under the supervision of Karlheinz Meier. For his thesis he co-designed an efficient implementation of a neural network in hardware.
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Ralf SchneggenburgerEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Nishant Jana, Runzhong Zhang, Jinyun Wu, Elena Mombelli A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Le Xiao, Yunyun Han, Özgür Genç, Elin Kronander, Enida Gjoni, Wei Tang, Ayah Khubieh, Aiste Baleisyte, Shriya Palchaudhuri, Denys Osypenko, Bei-Xuan Lin 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
Gabriele GrenninglohSince 2017:Deputy Director, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL-SV2010 - 2014: Co-Manager, NCCR Synapsy, EPFL2005 - 2017:Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Neuroenergetics and Cellular Dynamics, EPFL-SV-LNDC and Deputy Director, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL-SV1997 - 2005:Group Leader, then Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne1992 - 1997Senior Scientist, Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, Plan-les-Ouates, CH1989 - 1991Postdoc, then Research Geneticist, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Alessandra GriffaCurrent work
In recent years developments in graph theoretical analysis have been more and more applied to the study and characterization of both functional and structural brain networks. The human connectome has been characterized as a small-world, modular, hierarchical network, with few central nodes acting as connectors between local communities, and highly interconnected between them. This brain characterization is common to both structural and functional connectivity. Nevertheless the correlation betwe
