After a PhD in Neurosciences at the University Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris VI, Catherine Liegeois Chauvel started as Charge de Recherches in the INSERM unit, U 97, led by Jean Bancaud at Ste Anne Hospital in Paris in 1985. She was, the first, to describe the anatomo-physiology organization of the auditory cortex in Man. The intracerebral electrodes implanted in patients undergoing presurgical investigations for intractable epilepsy provided an unique opportunity to record in vivo the cortical responses. A functional asymmetry of the right and left auditory cortices has been demonstrated and a physiological index of speech perception underlying the hemispheric lateralization for language comprehension has been evidenced from the left auditory cortex.

Then, she pursued her carrier as Director de Recherche in Marseille (INSERM unit , U 751 then U 1106, led by Pr P Chauvel). Her research was dedicated on the characterization of the language networks and the spatio-temporal dynamics of the ventral and dorsal streams.

Since 2013, she has a tight collaboration with the department of Epilepsy at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation where she has developed cognitive assessment in epileptic patients by the analyses of electrophysiological markers of the neuronal processes underlying language perception and production along with the verbal memory.

Director de Recherches Emeritus since September 2018, she is spending part of her research time at the Cleveland Clinic and the Language, Cognition and Brain Sciences Laboratory at the Queensland University of Technology lead by Pr G de Zubicaray, as Adjunct Professor.

Her current research is focused on the improvement of the functional language mappingin epilepsy surgery, applyingan innovative multi-modal method, combining state-of-the art imaging(7T fMRI) and electrophysiological techniques (Intracerebral recordings).

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During my Phd and my post-doc experiences I have been studying brain network dynamics computed on different neuroimaging data (MEG/EEG/ intraoperative ECoG). The leitmotif of my research focused on the application of functional connectivity and network theory on the healthy and pathological brain (e.g. epilepsy, alzheimer, diabetes, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). My experimental research lately has attempted to move beyond group level analysis towards individual level analysis, because only from such an approach it will be possible to improve clinical practise, and suggest pragmatic interventions that could be valuable in general.

In the dynamap lab I will be working on neuroimaging data (invasive and not invasive) with the attempt to localize the epileptogenic focus in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IU-0PcwAAAAJ&hl=en

Github: https://github.com/suforraxi/

Mail: suforraxi@gmail.com

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Email: maya.allouche@univ-amu.fr

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Email: an.sora@univ-amu.fr

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Sora An received the B.S. and Ph.D degrees in electronics engineering from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, in 2010 and 2017, respectively. Since 2017, she has joined Theoretical Neuroscience Group in INS (Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst). Her research interests include a personalized brain network modeling and stimulation therapies for neurological diseases.

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Email: anastasia.EGHIAIAN@univ-amu.fr

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In 2010 she obtained a PhD degree in Natural science in Goettingen University for the work: Molecular sizing using two-focus correlation spectroscopy. 2010-2012 postdoc in Medical center of Goettingen University to study neuroblastome: transformation mechanisms on cellular level using fluorescence lifetime imaging. 2013-2015 Immunology center in Marseille, Luminy. The project was to develop 2 photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy system to monitor t lymphocytes activation. 2015-2016 finished post graduated training in " Clinical research and Regulatory affairs"

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Email: ana-maria.FERNANDEZ-VICENTE@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 4 91 32 42 31

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I studied Psychology and a master in Neuroscience in the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). I completed my PhD in Neuroscience (2013) at the same university. My research focused on how basal ganglia process sensory and motor information in rhesus monkeys. During my PhD I did an internship in Angela Roberts’ laboratory (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), where I learned primates behavioural training. Since 2013 I am a postdoc at the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) under the supervision of Christophe Bernard.

I currently study the role of the nucleus reuniens in spatial navigation and its interactions with hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. I use silicon probes to record simultaneously dozens of neurons and local field potentials in freely-moving animals.

Together with the postdoc Andrea Slezia, I study the neuronal activity of the supra-mammilary nucleus and its interactions with the hippocampus. We combined local field recordings and single cell recordings with silicon probes and juxtacellular electrodes in anesthetized animals.

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Email: priya.ghumatkar@univ-amu.fr

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Email: patrick.marquis@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 04 91 38 46 33

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Patrick Marquis studies Human Neurophysiology at University Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris. He was graduated by Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at University Paris-Sorbonne in 1992.

He work at INSERM since 1983 and is actually Study Ingeneer in the team Dynamics of Cognitive Processes at INS, Institut of Neurosciences des Systèmes, in Marseille.

He is in charge of electrophysiological recording in human neurophysiology, with surface (EEG) and depth electrodes (SEEG).

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Email: alexi.fasola@univ-amu.fr

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Email: lorenzo_ferri@rocketmail.com

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Email: francesca.melozzi@univ-amu.fr

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Email: aurelie.ponz@univ-amu.fr

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Email: romanos.poulkouras@univ-amu.fr

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Email: irene.yujnovsky@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 4 91 32 42 39

I majored in Biochemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and after, I pursued a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the IGBMC in Strasbourg, France in the group of Dr. Paolo Sassone-Corsi where my research focused on the transcriptional control of circadian rhythms.
Since 2006, I have been working in the setup and coordination of scientific collaborations and project management at the national, european and international level. These include grant proposal writing and reporting, supervising the scientific workplan and managing all administrative and financial aspects of the consortium, communication, staff recruitment and daily interaction with funding institutions. Since 2015, I am the project manager of the Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire (FHU) EPINEXT. Epinext is a multi-disciplinary structure centered in Marseille which focuses on epilepsy diagnosis, research and treatment. Since 2017, I act as liaison officer between our clinical, research and industry partners, patients associations, institutional administrators and funding agencies both at the national, european and international level. I also organize workshop and dissemination events and work closely with the communication departments to ensure the dissemination of scientific results to the public. Moreover, I follow up technology transfer projects and the patenting/licensing activities in liaison with the tech transfer office.

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Email: W.J.E.Zweiphenning@umcutrecht.nl

Willemiek Zweiphenning is a visiting MD/PhD student from the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the use of high frequency oscillations and functional network analysis for localization of the epileptogenic tissue in epilepsy surgery. She will spend 6 months in our research laboratory to learn about the advanced HFO and functional connectivity algorithms developed here, and apply them to ECoG data from Utrecht.

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Email: kenza.houssaini@univ-amu.fr

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Email: thomas.doublet@univ-amu.fr

Phone: +33 4 91 32 42 55

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Thomas Doublet is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) since 2019. His research focus on a combination of memory, epilepsy, and neuro-engineering.

Thomas received his M.Sc. degree in neuroscience from Aix-Marseille University where his research was focused on electrophysiological biomarkers present in brain reorganizations from epileptogenesis to seizures in epileptic rats with Christophe Bernard. In 2013, he received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the university of Aix-Marseille where his research was focused in new approaches to record electrical and metabolic brain activities supervised by G.Malliaras (department of Bioelectronics, EMSE) and C.Bernard (INS). From 2014 to 2018, Thomas worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli institute for systems neuroscience (NTNU, Norway) with C.Kentros, where his worked was focused on acquisition and perturbation of spatial memory in rats and transgenic mice.

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Email: mohammad.arbabyazd@univ-amu.fr

J‘ai consacré 10 ans d‘études supérieures à la science dont 5 ans à la neuroscience informatique à travers l‘analyse des données, network neuroscience, et les simulations dédiées à la maladie d‘Alzheimer dans le cadre de projets de recherche européens, dont AETIONOMY et The Virtual Brain Cloud. Au sein de l‘Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, j‘ai l‘opportunité de faire évoluer mes compétences professionnelles, en collaboration avec d‘autres chercheurs je dévéloppe mon sens d‘écoute, de résponsabilité et ma capacité de management de projet. Mon ambition et mon aspiration de progrès me poussent à m‘améliorer constamment.

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E-mail: acerbog@msn.com

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Email: david.ALEXANDER@univ-amu.fr

david.murray.alexander@gmail.com

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Alexander7

David has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Macquarie University, Sydney. He has worked as a researcher in Australia, Japan and Belgium. His main research interest is large-scale dynamics in the cortex.

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Email: veronique.ayala@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 4 91 32 42 23

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Email: mikhael.azilinon@univ-amu.fr

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Email: abhirup.BANDYOPADHYAY@univ-amu.fr

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LuWoausAAAAJ&hl=en

I am a mathematician by training. I did my Ph.D. in mathematics from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur India. My specialization is in nonlinear dynamics, complex network and uncertainty analysis. Now I am working on modeling biophysical and phenomenological dynamics of neural systems. My research interests revolve around nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics and network dynamics applied mainly in neural networks and addressing different problems like diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders, the emergence of criticality and complex brain functioning, etc. through mathematical modeling.

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Email: swati.BANERJEE@univ-amu.fr

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Swati started her computational neuroscience journey at INS-TNG with Prof. Viktor Jirsa, in 2020 and is working on the exciting arena of modelling epileptic activity. She has been always intrigued by the use of computational techniques to unveil meaningful information in translational research. During her Master’s in computer science, she was introduced to Human Centric Computing which lead to the development of fractal based image processing algorithms. During her Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering, she studied the pathophysiological condition of Human cardiovascular system during diseased and stressed condition, hence, developing signal processing and Machine Learning based Frameworks to reveal distinct biomarker like patterns from ECG, PPG and respiratory Signals. She defended her Ph.D thesis at University of Calcutta, India in 2015. She acquired knowledge and experience of five years working on various European projects. The latest one she worked on was to asses the muscular health using HD-sEMG signals at Sorbonne University. She has also worked on development of BCI paradigm for realising the correspondence between auditory and visual pathways in human. After joining INS she shifted her research focus completely to understanding the region based epileptic activity and thus scaling it up to the personalised whole brain network based model.

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Email: wesley.p.clawson@gmail.com

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Obtained his undergraduate (Bachelor's) in Physics and Electrical Engineering with honors at the University of Arkansas and obtained his Master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. His research during this time was focused on criticality in neural networks as apart of a collaborative project with Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He worked as a cloud architect for Windstream for a brief time before pursing his PhD at Aix-Marseille University as apart of the INS institute.

His research interest is in circuit level neuroscience in memory processes through the lense of complex systems and computation theory. He is funded by the EU ITN program, M-GATE which funds multiple PhD students across Europe to study memory with tools from genetics to computational neuroscience.

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Email: daniele.daini@univ-amu.fr

I have a Master degree in Physics from the University of Pisa

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Email: emmanuel.dauce@univ-amu.fr

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During my Phd and my post-doc experiences I have been studying brain network dynamics computed on different neuroimaging data (MEG/EEG/ intraoperative ECoG). The leitmotif of my research focused on the application of functional connectivity and network theory on the healthy and pathological brain (e.g. epilepsy, alzheimer, diabetes, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). My experimental research lately has attempted to move beyond group level analysis towards individual level analysis, because only from such an approach it will be possible to improve clinical practise, and suggest pragmatic interventions that could be valuable in general.

In the dynamap lab I will be working on neuroimaging data (invasive and not invasive) with the attempt to localize the epileptogenic focus in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IU-0PcwAAAAJ&hl=en

Github: https://github.com/suforraxi/

Mail: suforraxi@gmail.com

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Email: christian.gestreau@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 4 91 69 87 86

As a member of INS since 2018, besides his teaching duties he has been recently elected as co-director of the Master of Neurosciences. He received his PhD degree in Neurosciences in 1997 and the Habilitation for Directing Research (HDR) in 2012. His research is focused on dynamic reconfiguration of brainstem networks, such as mechanisms of swallow-breathing coordination and/or production of the cough reflex. His results led to the identification and functional characterization of premotor hypoglossal and laryngeal neurons within the pons and medulla. He also investigated the role of erythropoietin (Epo) and TASK2 channels in central respiratory chemoreception and in audition. He used various animal models and methods, including ventilatory measurements through barometric plethysmography in conscious rodents, electrophysiology in vivo, and extracellular spike train recording in the in situ arterially-perfused preparation. He also uses computer assisted data entry and analysis and computer simulations of neural networks inferred from in vivo data. An important part of this work is done in collaboration with the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Florida (UF). Dr. Gestreau has participated as PI or work-package leader in a number of regional, French or international projects. His is currently an adjunct faculty member at USF and a consultant on a NIH grant (PIs: D. Bolser, UF, USA) focused on airway defensive behaviors (cough and swallow) and breathing. Since it's recent integration in PhysioNet, he is leader of a workpackge in a TECSAN ANR grant (AdaptVNS; Coordinator: Alfredo Hernandez, LTSI, Rennes) entitled "Adaptive, subject-specific Vagus Nerve Stimulation" whose objective is the prevention of Sudden and Unexpected Death in Epileptic Patients (SUDEP) through VNS neuromodulation using organic electrodes.

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Email: jeremy.giroud@univ-amu.fr

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Email: hussein.hamdi@univ-amu.fr

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Email: mario.LAVANGA@univ-amu.fr

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Born in Italy and raised by a medical doctor and a housewife, since his childhood, Mario developed an early interest in human physiology and biology. Doubtful to seek a clinical career, he went on to study Biomedical engineering at Polytechnic university of Milan, where he delved into the intertwined realities of physics and biology. During his studies, he had the opportunity to build a strong background in the field of biomedical signal processing. The skills he acquired have been useful in his working experience, which is characterized by frequent interactions with clinical doctors. Immediately after graduating, he moved to KU Leuven, Belgium, where he started focusing on mental health and neurodevelopment as part of his PhD studies, under the supervision of Prof. Sabine Van Huffel and Prof. Gunnar Naulears. In January 2017, he received a strategic basic research grant from the Flemish scientific research fund (FWO). The goal of his research was to quantify stress in premature babies by means of EEG and ECG signal processing and to understand its impact on the infants’ development. After his graduation, he moved to Aix-Marseille University, France, for a postdoc position. His new research focuses on the mathematical modelling of the neurodevelopment and ageing based on the Virtual Brain technology by Prof. Viktor Jirsa. This project is part of the European effort of the Human Brian Project.

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Email: galyna.malieieva@univ-amu.fr

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Email: florianmissey@hotmail.fr

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Email: michaelyoshi23@gmail.com

Dr. Nakatani graduated Nippon Medical School University in 2009. After that, he worked as a Jr resident at Kanto Rosai Hospital from 2009-11. He then began to work as a Neurologist specialist at Juntendo University Hospital in 2011. During this residency, he worked as a chief-resident and was dedicated to treat patients with general neurological diseases. From 2014, he moved to Kyoto University Hospital in order to study Clinical neurophysiology and Epilepsy in the guidance of Professor Akio Ikeda (Vice President of Japan Epilepsy Society). Here he did his clinical research on wide-band ECoG from infraslow activity (DC shift) to high frequency activities, which will be the clue to elucidate the epileptogenicity. He was awarded the Excellent presentation award at Kanto Rosai Hospital in 2009 and Suzanne Peter Berry International award in 2017 by American Epilepsy Society. He is also board certified member of Japanese Society of Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy.

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Email: christos.papageorgakis@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 6 52 56 69 08

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In 2013, after graduating from the Dept of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Central Greece, Christos joined the COATI project team of the INRIA Sophia - Méditerranée where he focused on implementing algorithms derived from graph theory games. Looking forward to gain knowledge in the field of Computational Biology, he successfully completed a Master 2 program in Computational Biology and Biomedicine of the University of Nice and then joined the ATHENA project team for a 6 month internship working on Dictionary Learning techniques for mutli-dimensional data such as the Electroencephalography (EEG).
In October 2014, he joins Athena and APICS project teams and under the co-supervision of BESA Gmb for his doctoral studies and In April 2018, he joined the DynaMap team to pursue additional skills in the field of neuroscience, working on Studying Cognitive Activity at several LEvels with Simultaneous depth and surface recordings (SCALES) project.

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Email: nicola.pedreschi@univ.amu.fr

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Email : noemie.TE-RIETMOLEN@univ-amu.fr

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Email: marc.rey@univ-amu.fr

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Email: christophe.rodo@univ-amu.fr

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Email: nicolas.roehri@etu.univ-amu.fr

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I graduated from INP Grenoble - Ecole Nationale Supérieur de Physique, Electronique, Matériaux (Phelma) in 2014. I did an exchange at Imperial College London for the final year of my Master's. While at Phelma, I forged a background in signal processing, biology, electronics and biomedical imaging. In London, I followed lectures from the Neurotechnology Master. I obtained my PhD degree at the INS in the DynaMap Team under the supervision of Dr. Christian Bénar and Prof. Fabrice Bartolomei. My project aimed at evaluating the clinical relevancy of the High-Frequency Oscillation (HFOs) - a biomarkers of epileptogenicity - in the delineation of the Epileptogenic Zone (EZ) during presurgical evaluation. This thesis resulted in 3 publications and 1 pending international patent on our innovative detector: Delphos. I am currently a Postdoc acquiring electrophysiological data from several French epilepsy centers to validate the Epileptogenicity Index (Bartolomei et al. 2008) as a predictive measure of the EZ.

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Email: evgeniia.rusina@univ-amu.fr

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Email: sawssan.safieddine@univ-amu.fr

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Email: aileen.mcgonigal@univ-amu.fr

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Dr Aileen McGonigal is a neurologist specialized in epilepsy and is registered as a specialist practitioner in both the UK and France. Her medical degree (1994) and PhD (2015) were awarded by the University of Glasgow. She has been a member of the INS since 2012 (Dynamap team) and was a member of the previous INSERM U751 lab from 2006-2012. Her main research themes are seizure semiology, frontal lobe epilepsy and psychiatric aspects of epilepsy, approached within a framework of epileptogenic networks, including use of stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) data. Current projects include: multi-center study on the role of BDNF in the interactions between epilepsy and depression (PI); study of electrodermal activity as a measure of sympathetic autonomic system and its correlates with limbic system cerebral activity (PI); supervision of joint PhD project with INRIA, France on the use of automated video analysis of seizure semiology.

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Email: sonia.timourian@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 4 91 32 42 21

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Email: vineet.tiruvadi@univ-amu.fr

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Email: anirudh-nihalani.vattikonda@univ-amu.fr

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I completed my bachelor's degree in Information Sciences in 2010 from Koneru Lakshmaiah University. From 2010-12 I worked as a programmer/analyst at HCL Technologies, until I joined the research programme at IIIT Hyderbad in 2014 for my Masters. I did my Master's thesis in computational neuroscience with Dr. Dipanjan Roy and Dr. Bapi Raju Surampudi on understanding role of excitation-inhibition balance in recovery from focal structural lesions using mean field models, graph theory and numerical methods. I graduated my MA in computer science in 2016, then worked as a research assistant with Dr. Arpan Banerjee at National Brain Research Center from 2016 to 2017, where I worked on developing a multi-scale dynamic mean field model for understanding role of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in maintaining criticality. In 2018, I joined TNG at INS as a PhD student with Dr. Viktor Jirsa, here I am working on identifying epileptogenic zone in drug resistant epileptic patients, using Bayesian Inference and sampling methods.

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Emali: bahar.YALCINKAYA@univ-amu.fr

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After I got my major degree in Genetics and Bioengineering and a minor degree in Food Engineering Department. During my Ph.D. study, I focused on bioelectricity, bioenergetics, and energy-related aging of muscle and neurons of invertebrate and vertebrate models. Meanwhile, I had been also working as a teaching assistant at the Food Engineering Department for General Microbiology, Food Microbiology, and Food Analysis courses. I realized that my long-standing interest has been in neuroscience and the use of high-throughput approaches to study. I have developed a great appreciation for the extraordinary power of experimental and computational neuroscience studies as a research tool for the brain, its states, and neurodegenerative disorders. More generally, my research interests primarily lie in the areas of brain network and understand qualitatively and quantitatively local and global interactions under different states in different processes that the brain encounters and in neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, at INS my research focuses on linking theoretical models at different levels of description, healthy aging, and Alzheimer’s disease, building a bridge between actual brain scans and theoretical models by considering inter-subject variability of the human brain.

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Emeritus Director of Research

Email: yuri.zilberter@univ-amu.fr

Dr Zilberter started scientific career in Moscow (1978-1991) where he developed the loose-patch-clamp method and using it made the first description of Na currents in cardiomyocytes, then investigated biophysical properties of single K+ channels and plasticity in glutamate receptors in neurons. In 1991, he was invited as an assistant professor at Duke University (USA) where he continued to study myocardial biophysics but left for Germany (Heidelberg) in 1996 being invited as visiting scientist by Prof. Bert Sakmann. The main achievement during these 3 years was a discovery of retrograde signalling in single synapses between pyramidal cells and interneurons in neocortex. In 1999, he received an associate professor position in Karolinska Institute (Stockholm) where he studied multiple aspects of synaptic transmission in unitary connections between neurons in neocortex. He moved to France in 2006 and at present his major scientific interest is directed to a search of efficient approaches for treating neurodegenerative diseases.

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Email : matthias.DIPPER-WAWRA@univ-amu.fr

Mattias comes from Berlin, where he was working in Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as a neurologist and research associate in the Experimental Epileptology.

In April 2021, he joined the group of Christophe Bernard in PhysioNet as a Postdoc. At the INS, his goal is to extend his methodological knowledge to electrophysiological recordings in vivo (so far mainly ex vivo) and will further investigate the pathophysiological role of interictal epileptiform activity.

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Email: jayant.Jha@univ-amu.fr

Email: carmela.calabrese@univ-amu.fr

I received my Bachelor and Master degrees in Control Engineering from the University of Naples- Federico II in 2014 and 2017, respectively. My master thesis focused on the development and analysis of a nonlinear mathematical model for intra- and inter-brains synchronisation emerging during human coordination. In March 2021, I got my joint Ph.D. degree both in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, and in Human Movement Science, as the result of a cotutelle program between the University of Naples and the University of Montpellier, funded by the "Vinci Programme 2017" scholarship. During my research, I was under the supervision of prof.s Mario di Bernardo and Benoit Bardy. My doctoral work dealt with the application of nonlinear control theory, focusing on the analysis and modelling of human movement coordination and leadership emergence during cooperative tasks, useful for exergames’ development for impaired people, e.g. autistic children. I decided to move to my greatest research interest that is the neuroscience field so, in September 2021, I joined INS. My research goals are the development of models that take into account brain plasticity dynamics and the study of new stimulation protocols for therapeutic treatments of epilepsy.

Email: gian-marco.DUMA@univ-amu.fr

I graduated in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the University of Padova, where I also obtained my PhD in Psychological Sciences. During the PhD I became passionate about electrophysiological data analyses, specially about EEG and functional connectivity. During the PhD I mainly focused on the investigation of neural dynamics underpinning cognitive functions as short term memory and attention. During my first postdoc I applied the knowledge acquired during the PhD, in the investigation of dynamic connectivity in epilepsy, and its relation with cognition. My research interests are related to the application of computational models to simulate whole brain dynamics to identify biomarkers to predict neurological and cognitive outcome.

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Email: celine.hidalgo@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 491 384 634

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I have been working as a speech therapist for 10 years.

Along my clinical practice, I have specifically been interested in deafness (i.e. children wearing hearing aids and/or cochlear implants and educated in an auditory environment). More precisely, I seek to understand to what extent this sensory deficit can alter high-level auditory perception and cognitive processing, such as those required in language development.

I am currently undergoing a PhD in Linguistics and Neurosciences which allows me to:
- analyze the temporal processing and predictive skills of children with deafness during verbal interactions

- measure to what extent an active music rhythmic training can improve the temporal predictive skills needed in conversation

My work is inspired by the dynamic attending theory, temporal predictive coding and active sensing (i.e. role of the motor system in auditory perception). We seek to capitalize on the neuronal entrainment phenomenon to improve predictive skills of children with deafness and enhance their communicative skills and social participation. As music practice improves temporal predictions and auditory perceptive capacities, we use an active musical rhythmic training to optimize the neuronal entrainment capacities on children with deafness.

To find out more, visit my website.

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Email: daniela.de-andrade-morange@univ-amu-fr

I am a neurologist, my research is on neurophysiological markers of cortical functionality from iEEG analysis using MTL-P300, AMTL-N400 and power disrtibution of different frequence spectra in epileptic patients.

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Email: arnaud.zalta@univ-amu.fr

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Email: demian.battaglia@univ-amu.fr

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Demian Battaglia carries out an interdisciplinary research at the crossroad between Systems Neuroscience, Computation and Information Science and Physics of Complex Systems. After obtaining his PhD in 2005 at SISSA (Trieste, Italy), he was postdoctoral fellow in Paris (with David Hansel and Nicolas Brunel) and then project leader within the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Göttingen from 2010 to 2015. He was Bernstein Fellow and Marie-Curie Fellow. Since 2015, he is a CNRS Research scientist (section 26, "Brain and Cognition") and faculty member at the Institute for Systems Neuroscience of Aix-Marseille University. He is an expert in the theoretical and computational analysis of multi-scale brain circuit dynamics, with an emphasis on its role in flexible information routing and computing. The used techniques range from modelling and simulation to information theory, non-linear time-series analyses and unsupervised approaches.

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Email: sophie.BENITEZ-STULZ@univ-amu.fr

I obtained my Bachelor in Psychology and my Master in Cognitive Neuroscience from Maastricht University. I became interested in the field of Computational Neuroscience during my internship in the lab of Dr. Gustavo Deco where I was working on machine learning applications in fMRI data. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in INS on stimulation in empirical and simulated data with Dr. Demian Battaglia and Dr. Agnes Trebuchon, funded under the ERMUNDY project.

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Email: jan.fousek@univ-amu.fr

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I was always fascinated by the interdisciplinary synergy which constitutes the computational science. During my master studies, I have focused on the computer scientific aspects, namely performance engineering of scientific computing, and automated code optimization for High Performance Computing architectures. Later, during my PhD (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), I have narrowed down my interest to developing efficient and scalable algorithms for implementation of the Brain Network Models. Concurrently, I have engaged in several research projects centered around my second field of interest, namely complex network analysis and modeling---mainly in relation to the brain functional connectivity. Currently, at INS I have shifted my focus fully to the field of neuroscience, and I'm working on the parameter inference for Brain Network Models in the context of direct brain stimulation.

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Email: lionel.kusch@univ-amu.fr

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Email: giovanni.rabuffo@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 4 91 32 42 31

I am a Theoretical Physicist working as a Postdoctoral researcher at INS.

After obtaining my Master degree with honors in Theoretical Physics in 2015 at the University of Pisa, I was a PhD graduate student at University of Hamburg. In 2018 I obtained my PhD degree (magna cum laude) with a thesis focused on the mathematical study of gravity at the quantum scale. Following a long-standing curiosity towards the study of the human brain, I finally decided to dedicate myself full-time to Neuroscience. My current research interest at INS is the theoretical and computational study of large-scale brain dynamics, with a special focus on the understanding of how stimulation propagates and influences the global rhythms of the brain.

The ultimate goal of our research is to understand how to stimulate the brain to cause a predictable and beneficial effect by comparing in vivo experiments with in silico results.

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Email: viktor.sip@univ-amu.fr

Viktor is a member of INS since January 2017. Before starting here, Viktor worked in the field of computational fluid dynamics. He obtained the Master's degree in 2011 from Charles University in Prague, where he worked on parallelization of Discontinuous Galerking method for compressible flows. He followed with doctoral studies at Czech Technical University in Prague, focusing on the problems of computational modeling of microscale atmospheric flows and pollution dispersion.
At INS Viktor works on the computational modeling of epilepsy. In the most recent work he focuses on the computational modeling of seizure propagation across the patient’s cortex in order to better understand how are epileptic seizures initiated and how they spread across the human brain.

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Email: conchetta.taverna@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 4 91 32 42 51

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Email: adam.williamson@univ-amu.fr
Phone: +33 7 82 18 89 42

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Adam Williamson is a Principal Investigator at the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS), a part of Inserm at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), France, since April 2014. He is a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant 2016, using organic electronic based neuroprosthetics in the therapeutic treatment of epilepsy. Generally, his research in neuroengineering is focused on in vivo applications for numerous organic electronic devices in physiological and pathophysiological neuronal networks. Adam received his B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University, USA, where his work was focused on the fabrication and optimization of silicon transistors with Professor Richard Gale. In 2011 he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Technische Universität Ilmenau (TUI), Germany, where his work was focused on the integration of nano-structures into silicon photodiodes with Prof. Martin Hoffmann (the Department of Micromechanical Systems, TUI, Germany). From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a postdoc at TUI with Prof. Andreas Schober (the Department of Nano-Biosystem Technology, TUI, Germany), where his work was focused on nanostructure-enhanced electrophysiology and artificial synapse technology.

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I started my academic journey at the American University of Beirut where I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Biology. My theoretical curiosity and interdisciplinary interests led me to Cornell University where I pursued my PhD in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics with a Minor in Applied Mathematics. My doctoral work was an investigation of nonlinear oscillatory interactions in models of systems with vastly separate timescales, inspired from biology and mechanics. As an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Lebanese American University (2014-2018), my research focused on the study of nonlinear interactions in spinning top dynamics. My current work at in the TNG at INS is on the mathematical modelling of nonlinear neuronal interactions in the white matter of the brain. More generally, my research is primarily driven by two elements: an aesthetic appreciation for mathematics and a passion for understanding dynamics underlying complex nonlinear interactions.

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She leads the group “Structural and functional properties of epileptogenic neuronal networks” in the PHYSIONET team at the “Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS)” in Marseille since 2012. She started her research on the role of the GABAergic system in Focal Motor Epilepsy at the INSERM Epilepsy Research Unit, directed by Prs J. Bancaud and obtained her PhD in 1990 from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris. She further specialized in the study of GABAergic system and Temporal lobe Epilepsies (TLE) in the laboratory of Dr. Carolyn Houser, at the University of California Los Angeles in the US. In 1998, she got a permanent position as a first class research scientist at INSERM, where she pursued her research at the Institute led by Dr. Y. Ben-Ari, at Port Royal Hospital in Paris, then at INMED, in Marseille. In 2006, she joined the team of Pr. P. Chauvel to create the new INSERM research unit « Epilepsy and Cognition » at the Faculty of Medicine Timone, in Marseille, a unit dedicated to clinical and basic translational research on epilepsy, that will give rise to INS in 2012. She becomes research director at INSERM in 2016. She has published 60 peer-reviewed articles (8 Top 10), 4 book chapters, with about 5000 citations and gave more than 30 invited talks in international conferences. She is reviewing manuscripts for many scientific journals in the Neurosciences Fields, and Grants for the European Research Commission, Association France Alzheimer and Fondation Française Recherche contre Epilepsie. Since 1998, she supervised 6 PhD students in Neurosciences, 12 Master students; 2 MD students; 6 post-doctoral fellows. She is internationally recognized for her works on the structural, functional and developmental properties of GABAergic neuronal networks, in rodents and primates, as well as in physiological condition than in TLE. Today her current work focus on the role of non-canonical long distance GABAergic networks of the limbic system in TLE.

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Email: piotr.bregestovski@univ-amu.fr
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Piotr Bregestovski obtained his Ph.D in biophysics in 1974 and degree of Doctor of Sciences in physiology in 1991. During 1981-1991 he worked at the Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, where he established the team on the biophysical analysis of cells of the cardio-vascular and immune systems. During these years he introduced and developed pioneer techniques on recording and analysis of single ion channel activity in biological membranes; organized a number of symposia, constructed specific equipment, translated books in electrophysiology. In 1991 Dr. Bregestovski obtained the position of the Director of Research at INSERM. In 2002 he moved the laboratory to Marseille at the Institute on Neurosciences (INMED) and in 2010 he joined the INSERM Unit headed by Professor Patrick Chauvel at Hospital La Timone. Presently he is an Emeritus Director of Research at Institute of System Neurosciences, INSERM, Marseille, France, and serves on various Editorial and Scientific Advisory Boards, plus has published more than 120 scientific articles and book chapters with more than 6000 citations. Since 2017 Prof. P. Bregestovski is the Chairman of the International Scientific Council at Kazan State Medical University, Russia.