The people
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The Laboratory is characterized by a very international atmosphere as you noticed from our welcome message! Such a diversity is also reflected by the background of the participants to this group: biochemistry, mathematics, ethology, anatomy, computational neuroscience, neuroeconomics ... In fact we are still a young group, who started in 1993 and keep growing in maturity. The Neuroheuristic Research Group was established in 1995 by Prof. Alessandro E.P. Villa, who is Chair in neuroeconmics and computer science at the faculty of business and economics of the University of Lausanne, full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) , past President of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS) and who occupied for a decade a position of full professor in neuroscience and biophysics at the faculty of medicine of the University 'Joseph Fourier' of Grenoble. There are currently two co-directors of the laboratory, Prof. Villa as senior advisor assisted by Dr. Alessandra Lintas MPharm, PhD, trained in chemical pharmacy and electrophysiology, who studies the neurophysiological basis of addictive behavior in human and animal models, emotional responses to decision making, and the dynamics of cortical activity in patients with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Dr. Alessandra Lintas worked at Western University, Ontario (Canada) with Prof. Steven Laviolette and at the Unit of Anatomy of the Department of Medicine at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) with currently Emeritus Prof. Beat Schwaller. She holds a tenured position as research director associated with the LABEX of the faculty of business and economics of the University of Lausanne.
We are a transdisciplinary laboratory across the faculty of medicine, the faculty of businees and economics, and faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration. (By the way, do you know what does neuroheuristic mean ?) We all strongly believe that transdisciplinary is the necessary key to let emerge novel original ideas about how the brain is functioning. We hold a very strong collaboration with Prof. Yoshiyuki Asai, the Director of the AI Systems Medicine Research and Training Center (AISMEC) at the Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University and group leader of the Physiodesigner project at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He is an outstanding biomedical engineer making strong advances towards better signal acquisition and multivariate time series analysis. and is considered an active member of our laboratory, despite his main affiliation is now in Japan. We have also a long standing collaboration with Prof. Jérémie Cabessa, a mathematician associated with the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (France).
At the University of Lausanne we collaborate very closely with the other members of the Institute of Information Systems, Institute of Organizational Behavior and Department of Neuroscience. The development of a strong scientific community in the area of Lake Leman gives us an opportunity to establish links with the Brain and Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal School of Technology in Lausanne, the University Hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva and the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg. We have a fruitful and active collaboration with Dr. med. Stephen Perrig, at the Sleep Research Laboratory with the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital of Geneva and with Dr. med. Michel Bader who trained as neurologist and psychiatrist and who is an internationally renowned clinician specialized in clinical assessment and therapy of children and adolescents showing symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We collaborate also with Prof. Philippe Tobler at the Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics (ZNE) of the University of Zurich. The secretary load is carried out by Caroline Kleinheny and Daniela Serracca-Fraccalvieri.
We have an extended network of international collaborations with
several institutions and Laboratories.
Active collaborative projects are running with
several Spanish laboratories including
Prof. José Maria Delgado García
and Prof. Agnès Gruart i Massó
at the Department of Neuroscience of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla;
Prof. Angel Nunñez
at the Department of Neuroscience of the Universidad Autonoma Madrid;
Prof. Jordi García Ojalvo
at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona;
Prof. Antonio Pons Rivero
at the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Terrassa
and several Italian laboratories including
Prof. Alessio Micheli
at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa
and
Prof. Alessandro Sperduti
at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padova.
Other European collaborations include
Ing. Dr. Tatiana V. Guy
and
Ing. Dr. Miroslav Kárný
at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic),
Prof. Ausra Saudargiene
at the Neuroscience Institute of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas (Lithuania),
and Prof. Brigitte Quenet
at ESPCI ParisTech, Paris (France).
We are indebted to an outstanding staff of technicians who contributed throughout the years to the success of our work. They retired now but their memory is preserved in the laboratory and will last for a long time. They are Christian Haeberli, Ing. ETS the head of the electronic workshop with André Singy, who managed electrical and mechanical microdevices. At the mechanical workshop we acknowledge the work of André Audergon and Michel Jadé. We acknowledge the contribution of Mauricette Capt, the chief histology technician, who knew all state-of-the-art techniques for staining all classes of neurons and glial cells and whose contribution for anatomical reconstructions were essential.
We wish to all our former collaborators and students all the best for their life and future career.
The Alumni of the Neuroheuristic Research Group,
and the grade they received
while staying at our Laboratory.
Mark McCormick Ph.D., 2016-2022
Manon Jaquerod Ph.D., 2017-2021
Natalí Barros Zulaica, Ph.D., 2013-2017
Daniel Malagarrida Guasch, Ph.D., 2012-2016
Sarah Mesrobian, Ph.D., 2012-2015
Vladislav Shaposhnik, Ph.D., 2006-2011
Olga Chibirova, Ph.D., 2002-2006
Roberta Sirovich, Ph.D., 2002-2006
Javier Iglesias, Ph.D., 2000-2005
Jan Eriksson, Ph.D., 1995-2000
Sean Hill, Ph.D., 1994-1999
Ana Maria Acevedo Saenz, M.Law, 2018-2019
Kübra Pinar, M.Sc., 2017-2018
Lisa Sächfer, M.Law, 2016-2017
Aymeric Delore, M.Sc., 2016-2017
Mohamed Aymen Fayala, M.Law., 2016-2017
Manon Jaquerod, M.Sc., 2015-2016
Florian Schütz, M.Law, 2015-2016
Jason Wettstein, M.Law, 2014-2015
Sébastian Bianchi, M.Sc., 2013-2014
Sarah Mesrobian, M.Sc., 2011-2012
Sara Giordani, M.Sc., 2002-2003
Annaelle Devergnas, M.Sc., 2002-2003
Abdellatif Najem, M.Sc., 1998-2001
Luciana Carota, M.Sc., 1998-1999
Javier Iglesias, M.Sc., 1997-1998
Alexandre Kuhn, M.Sc., 1997-1998
Dr. Paolo Masulli, post-doc, 2016-2017
Dr. Lavinia Albéri, post-doc, 2011-2013
Dr. Jérémie Cabessa, post-doc, 2008-2012
Dr. Javier Iglesias, post-doc, 2005-2007
Dr. Yoshiyuki Asai, post-doc, 2004-2005
Dr. Tetyana Aksenova, faculty, 2001-2007
Dr. Maria Antonieta Farré Castany, post-doc, 1999-2001
Dr. Igor Tetko, post-doc, 1995-2000
Dr. Anne Hervé-Minvielle, post-doc, 1995-1996
Dr. Guido Vantini, post-doc, 1994-1996
Other graduate and postgraduate students
who spent an academic stage and collaborated with us at the Laboratory:
Qinyue Zheng (2019-2022),
Masashi Dotare (2019),
Alimohammed Miraghaie (2018-2019),
Si-Hao Liu (2017),
Rocío Caro Martin (2016),
Sarat Chandra Vysyaraju (2015),
Fioralba Ajazi (2014-2016),
Maria Duarte (2014),
Nicolas Gailly (2014),
Vincent Buntinx (2013),
Damiano Cereghetti (2011-2012),
Céline Tarditi (2011),
Mohammad Moayeri (2010),
Victor Contreras (2008-2009),
Steeve Larouche (2003),
Amina Ahmed (2002),
Tania Rinaldi (2001-2002),
Céline Mariéthoz (2000),
Daniel Huber (1999),
Alix Herrmann (1998),
Donatella Carretta (1997),
Uberto Pozzoli (1997),
Cecilia Locatelli (1996).
The Laboratory wishes also to thank the people of the
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