Fosco BernasconiBio I am a neuroscientist, interested in consciousness. I obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience with Stéphanie Clarke & Lucas Spierer in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2012. I then worked with Franz X Vollenweider in Zurich (Switzerland), and Niko A Busch in Berlin (Germany). Since 2014, I am working with Olaf Blanke at the EPFL & école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Geneva. Currently, we investigate the role of altered (bodily) self-consciousness in aberrant perceptions, notably observed in psychiatric and n
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.
Silvestro MiceraEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Johannes Sebastiaan Nieuwenhuis, Mouhamed Zorkot, Angela Braccia, Jonathan Muheim, Xiangyu Xu A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Elvira Pirondini, Andrea Crema, Marco Bonizzato, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Edoardo D'Anna, Emanuele Formento, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Flavio Raschella, Nawal Kinany, Théo Lemaire, Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois, Tristan Jean Robin Barjavel, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Outman Akouissi, Giulia Dominijanni, Simone Romeni, Franklin Leong, Ele
Jamie PaikProf. Jamie Paik is founder and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and a core member of Swiss NCCR robotics group. The RRL leverages expertise in multi-material fabrication and smart material actuation for novel robot designs. She received her PhD in Seoul National University on designing humanoid arm and a hand while being sponsored by Samsung Electronics. This 7-DoF humanoid arm was the lightest in the literature at that time being 3.7kg including the 8-DoF hand. During her Postdoctoral positions in the Institut des Systems Intelligents et de Robotic in Universitat Pierre Marie Curie, Paris VI, she developed laparoscopic tools named JAiMY that are internationally patented and commercialized now by Endocontrol-medical.com. At Harvard University’s Microrobotics Laboratory, she started developing unconventional robots that push the physical limits of material and mechanisms. Her latest research effort is in soft robotics including self-morphing Robogami (robotic origami) that transforms its planar shape to 2D or 3D by folding in predefined patterns and sequences, just like the paper art, origami.
Grégoire CourtineEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Alejandro Rodriguez Guajardo, Marc Khoury, Emma Farina, Icare Sakr, Camille Marie Mélodie Frayssinhes, Philippe José Emile René Forero, Ruijia Wang, Luca Robert Liebi, Achilleas Laskaratos, Chen Chen, Mark Adam Hinkle, Paula Sanchez Lopez, Martin Picek, Vi Anh Nguyen, Lou Colette Kohler Voinov, Jules Luo-Han Julien Orsat A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Nikolaus Wenger, Janine Beauparlant, Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler, Léonie Asboth, Mark Andrew Anderson, Galyna Pi
Werner Alfons Hilda Van GeitWerner is the Group Leader of the Cells team within the Simulation Neuroscience Division in Blue Brain.
The goal of his team is to build the single cell models which are the building blocks of the larger network models used in the Blue Brain Project. The first step when building these cell models consists of reconstructing, analysing and artificially recreating neuron morphologies. Next, a biophysically detailed electrical model for the different cell types is built. For the latter the team uses automated parameter optimisation tools like Blue Brain’s open source BluePyOpt tool, but they are also active in extending and developing other Blue Brain software packages related to single cells.
