Postdoctoral researchers

Adam Gosztolai
PI, AI Institute, Medical University of Vienna
PhD, Mathematics, Imperial College London
HFSP Cross-Disciplinary Fellow
2019-2022

Murat Kaynak
Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Robotics, EPFL
Spring 2022

Daniel Morales
Associate Editor, Nature Communications
PhD, Neuroscience, McGill University
Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholar; Eurotech Fellowship
2018 – 2021
Doctoral researchers

Jonas Braun
Data & AI Consultant, Eraneos
PhD, Neuroscience (EDNE)
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellow
2020 – 2024

Victor Lobato Rios
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford (starting 2026)
PhD, Neuroscience (EDNE)
Conacyt Doctoral Fellow
2018 – 2024

Pembe Gizem Ăzdil
Kempner Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University
PhD, Robotics (EDRS), co-supervised with Auke IJSPEERT
Google PhD Fellow; Swiss Government Excellence PhD Fellow
2020 – 2025

Femke Hurtak
Doctoral researcher
MSc, Physics, ETH Zurich
Doctoral Program in Neuroscience (EDNE)
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellow
2021 – 2025

Florian Aymanns
Machine Learning Engineer, EPFL Center for Imaging
PhD, Neuroscience (EDNE)
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellow
2018 – 2022

Laura Hermans
Consultant, McKinsey & Company
PhD, Bioengineering (EDBB), joint with MICROBS
EPFL Innovators Doctoral Fellow
2018 – 2022

Chin-Lin Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNIL DNF
PhD, Neuroscience (EDNE)
2017-2022

Semih GĂŒnel
Machine Learning Engineer, Meta
PhD, Computer and Communication Sciences (EDIC), joint with CVLAB
EDIC Fellow
2018 – 2022

Israel Cayetano
Product Development Engineer, Nahui TecnologĂa y Desarrollo
Doctoral Program in Robotics (EDRS), joint with BioRob
Spring 2020
Internship researchers

Mahdi Nobar
MSc, Mechanical Engineering, minor Robotics, EPFL
Fall 2020

Lucas Moeller
MSc, Physics, Heidelberg University
Fall 2020

Elisabeth Heremans
MSc, Biomedical Engineering, KU Leuven
Fall 2019

Victor Matsuda
MS, Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Sao Paolo
Swiss Government Excellence Research Scholar
Fall 2018 & Spring 2019

Marco Abrate
MSc, EPFL, Data Science and Computational Neuroscience
Fall 2019
Masters project researchers

Chuanfang Ning
Spring 2023
EPFL Robotics
Co-supervised with Auke IJSPEERT
Leandre DUBEY
2024-25
U. Fribourg, Digital Neurosciences
Edoardo BARGIS
Spring 2025
Politecnico di Torino, Bioelectronics
Laly Robyr
Spring 2025
EPFL, Robotics

Nathan Muller
Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 (Research Engineer)
EPFL Robotics

Nicolas Talabot
Fall 2018 & Spring 2019 (Research Intern)
MS, Microengineering, EPFL

Joao Campagnolo
Fall 2018
University of Lisbon,
Biomedical and Biophysics Engineering

Halla Sigurthorsdottir
Fall 2018
EPFL Life Sciences and Technology,
Neuroscience and Neuroengineering

Julien Ruegg
Spring 2018
EPFL Computational Science and Engineering
Co-supervised with Pr. Michael Unser (Biomedical Imaging Group)
Masters semester project researchers
Theodore ALLEGRE
Spring 2025
EPFL, Robotics
Salim BOUSSOFARA
Spring 2025
EPFL, Robotics
Rafael GARCIA BUSTILLOS
Spring 2025
EPFL, Robotics
Camille Benard
Summer 2024
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering
Laly Robyr
Summer 2024
EPFL, Robotics
Melina CHERCHALI
Fall 2024
EPFL, NeuroX
Gian VELARDI
Fall 2024
EPFL, NeuroX
Davide MICHELETTI
Spring 2025
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering
Sam Jegou
Spring 2024
EPFL, Computational Engineering
Omar Shalby
Spring 2024
EPFL, Neuro-X
Marianne Ardevol
Spring 2024
EPFL, Medical Robotics
Alessandra Chappuis
Spring 2024
EPFL, Robotics
Alice Canuti
Spring 2024
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering
Sander Miesen
Fall 2023
EPFL, NeuroX
Jean Cordonnier
Fall 2023
EPFL, Robotics
Louis Gevers
Fall 2023
EPFL, Robotics
Florian Kolly
Fall 2023
EPFL, Communication Systems
Flore Munier-Jolain
Fall 2023
EPFL, NeuroX

Louise Genoud
Summer 2023
EPFL, Robotics

Clara Scherrer
Spring 2023
EPFL Life Science Engineering

Philippe Forero
Spring 2023
EPFL Robotics
Marina Rapellini
Fall 2023
EPFL, Data Science
Barbara de Groot
Fall 2023
EPFL, Robotics

Camille Pescatore
Fall 2022
EPFL Life Science Engineering

Matteo Righi
Fall 2022
EPFL Robotics

Sara Djambazovska
Spring 2022
EPFL Computer Science

Melissa Fagella
Fall 2021
EPFL Life Science Engineering

Nizar Ghandri
Fall 2021
EPFL Data Science

Adrian Sager La Ganga
Fall 2021
EPFL Computational Science and Engineering

Sander de Haan
Spring 2021
EPFL Computer Science

Lauren Wright
Spring 2021
EPFL Robotics

Cedric Portmann
Spring 2021
EPFL Robotics

Andre Langmeier
Spring 2021
EPFL Computational Science and Engineering

Gabriel Feuerwerker
Spring 2021
EPFL Medical Robotics

Aliaa Diab
Spring 2021
EPFL Robotics

Maximo Cravero
Spring 2021
EPFL Computational Science and Engineering

Neil Scheidwasser-Clow
Fall 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Victor Stimpfling
Fall 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Balz Marty
Fall 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Chuanfang Ning
Fall 2020
EPFL Robotics

Jasmine Nguyen-Duc
Fall 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Raphaël Mariétan
Fall 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Elizaveta Kozlova
Fall 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Alexandre Luster
Summer 2020
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Lisa Salamin
Fall 2020
EPFL Robotics

Sacha Haidinger
Fall 2019
EPFL Bioengineering

Julien Harbulot
Fall 2019
EPFL Data Science

Nikolina Tomic
Fall 2019
EPFL Robotics

Marco Abrate
Summer 2019
EPFL Data Science and Computational Neuroscience

Milena Filipovic
Spring 2019
EPFL Computer Science & Computational Neuroscience

Huajian Qiu
Spring 2019
EPFL Computational Science and Engineering

Salar Rahimi
Spring 2019
EPFL Mechanical Engineering,
Co-supervised with Pr. Jaime Paik (RRL)

Samuel Elder von Baussnern
Spring 2019
EPFL Computer Science & Neuroprosthetics

Quentin Vingerhoets
Fall 2018
EPFL Microengineering

Loic Tiberghien
Fall 2018
EPFL Automation and Mechatronics

Sven Pfeiffer
Spring 2018
EPFL Mechanical Engineering
Co-supervised with Pr. Selman Sakar (MICROBS)

Lucas Massemin
Spring 2018
EPFL Computer Science
Co-supervised with Pr. Auke Ijspeert (BIOROB)
Bachelor researchers
Samara Santarelli
Spring 2024
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering
Sarah Bianchi
Summer 2024
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering
Lea NICOLAS
Spring 2025
EPFL, Communication Systems
Alexandre Flusin
Summer 2025
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering

Salim Boussofara
Summer 2023
EPFL, Microengineering
EPFL Summer in the Lab (SIL) Program

Julianne Attai
Spring 2023
U. Toronto, Robotics
EPFL Excellence Research Internship Program (ERIP)
Ghita Amrani
Summer 2023
EPFL, Microengineering
EPFL Laidlaw Program
Lucien Zimmermann
Summer 2023
EPFL, Life Science Engineering
Loic Deslarzes
Spring 2024
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering

Léa Goffinet
Spring 2023
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Nicolas Francio
Spring 2023
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Richard Chiu
Spring 2023
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Camille Dauvin
Spring 2023
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Laetitia Schwitter
Spring 2023
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Maxime Hilbig
Fall 2022
EPFL Communication Systems

Bryan Gotti
Fall 2022
EPFL Computer Science

Timo Achard
Fall 2022
EPFL Computer Science

Malak Nasr
Summer 2022
University of Science and Technology, Egypt
EPFL Summer Research Program Fellow

Arianna Bizzi
2022-23
Imperial College London, Physics

Olivia Ruggaber
Spring 2022
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Chlea Schiff
Summer 2021
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering

Rongrong Liu
Summer 2019
UC San Diego, Cognitive Science
EPFL Summer Research Program

Adam Friedberg
Summer 2018
Brown University, Pre-Med,
EPFL Summer Research Program Fellow

Fanny Magaud
Summer 2018
EPFL Life Sciences & Technology

Lucas Gautier
Summer 2018
EPFL Life Sciences & Technology

Celine Magrini
Summer 2018
EPFL Life Science & Technology

Adrien Luthi
Summer 2018
EPFL Microengineering,
Co-supervised with Pr. Auke Ijspeert (BIOROB)

Julien Berger
Summer 2018
EPFL Life Sciences & Technology

Raphael Laporte
Summer 2018
EPFL Computer Science
Visiting researchers

Irene Sanchez Mirasierra
Nov 2022
U Bordeaux, PhD student
Soukop lab

Florent Le Moel
March 2022
University of Edinburgh, Postdoctoral fellow
Barbara Webb laboratory

Keita Mori
Sept-Oct 2018; Aug-Sept 2019
University of Tokyo, Biological Sciences,
EPFL â University of Tokyo Exchange Program

Clare Howard
Sept 2018
Columbia University, MD/PhD Neuroscience
Richard Mann laboratory

Sinzi Pop
Feb 2018
Kingâs College London, Doctoral student
Darren Williams laboratory
