Come and gone

Former members and their first position after leaving the lab.

Davide Coda
2019 – 2025

Giulia Santoni
2023 – 2024
Giulia started as a scientist in the Fides Zenk Lab – NeuroNA Chair in Epigenomics of Neurodevelopmental disorders – EpiGN.

Bianca Ambrogina Silva
2015 – 2021
Bianca started her own lab as CNR principal investigator at the Istituto Di Neuroscienze, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milano, Italy.

Jose Sanchez-Mut
2014 – 2020
Jose started his own lab as principal investigator at the Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante, Spain.

Kwok Yui Reymond  (Tony) Yip 
2018 – 2024
PhD in Neurosciences, EPFL.

Giulia Santoni
2017 – 2022
PhD in Neurosciences, EPFL.
After graduating, Giulia started a Postdoc position in my lab.

Lucie Dixsaut
2016 – 2022
PhD in Neurosciences, EPFL.
After graduating, Lucie started as research scientist in neuroinflammation and drug discovery at Neuroimmune based in Zürich.

Allison Burns
2016 – 2021
PhD in Neurosciences, EPFL.
After graduating, Allie stayed on at EPFL, albeit in a different role: As senior bioinformatician at the Bioinformatics Competence Center (BICC).

Ossama Khalaf
2013 – 2017
After leaving the lab, Ossama worked as postdoctoral research associate in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Callum Gray
2025
MSc. in Neuroscience, University Of Aberdeen, UK

Lorenzo Baltimore
2025
MSc. in Neuroscience, Université de Montpellier, France.

Anaëlle Cossard
2024 – 2025
Msc. in Bioinformatics, Université of Paris-Saclay, France.

Ali Aghadoukht Mamaghani
2024
MSc. in Life Sciences and Health, program “Systems & Synthetic Biology”, University of Évry Paris-Saclay, France.

Myriam Schioppa
2023 – 2024
Msc. in Neuroscience, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Matteo Fiumara
2022 – 2023
MSc. in Biotechnology and Medical Biology, Università Vita-Salute, San Raffaele, Italy.

Irene Ferreres-Alvarez
2022 – 2023
MSc. in Neurosciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Johannes Brune
2021 – 2022
MSc. in Life Sciences and Technology, EPFL, Switzerland.

Cora Stahl
2021 – 2022
MSc. in Biotechnology, University Of Aberdeen, UK.

Thibault Sprenger
2020 – 2021
MSc. in Life Sciences and Technology, EPFL, Switzerland.
Thibault started a PhD in the laboratory of adult hippocampal neurogenesis of Prof. Nicolas Toni at the University of Lausanne. 

Lisa Watt
2020 – 2021
MSc. in Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
 
Ana Marques
2020 – 2021
MSc. in Neurosciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Hendrik Heiser
2018 – 2019
MSc. in Neurosciences, International Max Planck Research School, Göttingen, Germany.
Hendrik started a PhD in the Brain Research Institute (HiFo) in the group of Prof. Fritjof Helmchen at the University of Zurich.

Ivana Kalanoska
2018 – 2019
MSc. in Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 
Ivana started a PhD in the Laboratory on the Neurobiology of Eating and Addictive Disorders (PI Benjamin Boutrel) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Elisabetta Messina
2018
MSc. in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, EPFL, Switzerland.
Elisabetta started a PhD student in the Brain and Sound Lab (PI Tania Barkat) at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Victoire Gorden
2016 – 2017
MSc. in Life Sciences and Technology, EPFL, Switzerland.
After leaving the lab, Victoire worked as Product and Sales Specialist at Stöckli Medical AG, Switzerland.

Siegfried Resch
2014 – 2015
MSc. in Molecular Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Krems, Austria.
After leaving the lab, Siegfried worked as research technician.

Monserrat Trejo Valencia
2025
Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Ruam Salaroli
2023
Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil

Christiana Lowis
2023
i3L, Indonesia

Diego Camacho
2021
UNAM, Mexico

Fatimah Gunter-Rahman
2019
MIT, USA

Maya Gosztyla
2018
Ohio State University, USA

Alvaro de Vicente Bianco
2016
Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Nina Miljanovic
2015
University of Novi Sad, Serbia