Team members

Romain Goutagny

CNRS research director (DR) 🇫🇷
Rodent electrophysiology and behavior, hippocampus, oscillations, memory…

Demian Battaglia

CNRS research scientist (CR) 🇮🇹
Computational modelling, oscillations, network and information theory…

Jyotika Bahuguna

UniStra tenure track professor (CPJ) 🇮🇳
Computational and statistical modeling, basal ganglia, decision making, oscillations…

Yaroslav Sych

CNRS tenure track professor (CPJ) 🇺🇦
Calcium imaging, neuromodulation, distributed neural circuits, fiber sensors…

Karin Herbeaux

UniStra Engineer (IE) 🇫🇷
Animal experimentation technical assistant, animal welfare, biochemical analyses,…

Coline Portet

Postdoctoral fellow 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny)
Electrophysiological recordings and behavioral experiments in mice, optogenetic stimulation, claustrum, neuromodulation, spectral analysis, …

Laura Lopez Galdo

Postdoctoral fellow 🇪🇸 (with Demian Battaglia and Bjorg Kilavik, Marseille) Spectral and machine-learning analysis of non-human primate laminar electrophysiological recordings (motor planning), oscillatory burst analyses, computational modelling…

Anagh Pathak

Postdoctoral fellow 🇮🇳 (with Demian Battaglia)
Large-scale connectome-based models, modelling and analysis of oscillatory dynamics, healthy and pathological aging and development, agent-based modelling…

Simachew Mengiste

Postdoctoral fellow 🇪🇹 (with Demian Battaglia)
Graph theory and network analyses, dynamic functional connectivity, applications to neurodegenerative diseases, spiking network modelling…

Ludovic Spaeth

Postdoctoral fellow 🇫🇷 (with Yaroslav Sych)
Neurophysiology, cerebellum, motor function, fiber photometry and neuromodulation, temporal processing, neurodevelopment of retina, synaptic connectivity maps…

Flora Thellier

PhD student 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny)
Electrophysiological recordings and behavioral experiments in mice, optogenetic stimulation, claustrum, neuromodulation, spectral analysis, …

Thomas Blondel

PhD student 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny and Demian Battaglia)
Electrophysiological recordings and behavioral experiments in mice, working memory, aging and sensory stimulation, network and machine learning analyses, …

Chen-Hwa Chen

PhD student 🇹🇼 (with Yaroslav Sych)
Calcium imaging, neuromodulation, distributed neural circuits, fiber sensors, learning,…

Swarag Thaikkandi

PhD student 🇮🇳 (with Jyotika Bahuguna)
Decision making models, cognitive biases and learning, analysis of behavioral data, statistical physics, reinforcement learning, …

Zoé Weiblé

Assistant engineer 🇫🇷 (with Jyotika Bahuguna)
Computational modelling of decision making, statistical model fitting constrained by behavior…

Vandana Prasad

Guest PhD student 🇮🇳 (with Demian Battaglia and Ghislaine Dehaene, Neurospin, Paris Saclay)
Analyses of EEG dynamics variability in early infancy in relation with complex cognitive processing…

Jungyoung Kim 김정영

Guest PhD student 🇰🇷 (with Demian Battaglia and Jee Hyun Choi, KIST, Seoul) Computational spiking models of multi-frequency oscillations, information theory, analysis of electrophysiological data, …

Caroline Mursch

Technical engineer 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny) Animal experimentation technical assistant, animal welfare, behavioral analyses,…

Samy Castro

Former postdoctoral fellow 🇨🇱 (with Demian Battaglia) Multiscale computational modelling, exceptional connectomes, dynamic Functional Connectivity…

Matthieu Aguilera

Former PhD student 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny and Demian Battaglia) Electrophysiology and behavior in mice, dynamics-aware data analysis (EEG fluidity alterations in AD…)

Vinicius Lima

Former PhD student 🇧🇷 (with Demian Battaglia and Andrea Brovelli, Marseille) Analysis of non-human primate recordings, information theory, computational modelling…

Vincent Douchamps

Former postdoc 🇧🇪 (with Romain Goutagny, Strasbourg) Electrophysiological recordings and behavioral experiments in mice, spectral analysis, …

Sophie Benitez-Stulz

Former PhD student 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 (with Demian Battaglia, Marseille) Computational modelling (brain stimulation, distributed effects of local stimulation, compensation by dynamics…)

Nicole Voges

Former postdoc 🇩🇪 (with Demian Battaglia and Andrea Brovelli, Marseille) Computational modelling of functional circuits, time-series analysis, information dynamics,…

Nicola Pedreschi

Former PhD student 🇮🇹 (with Demian Battaglia and Alain Barrat, Marseille) Analyses of temporal networks (hippocampal recordings, human sEEG…)

Lucas Arbabyazd

Former PhD student 🇮🇷 🇫🇷 (with Demian Battaglia and Viktor Jirsa, Marseille) Large-scale whole-brain modelling, dynamic functional connectivity, Alzheimer’s disease…

Shruti Naik

Former PhD student 🇮🇳 (with Demian Battaglia and Ghislaine Dehaene, Saclay) Analyses of EEG, metrics of dynamic flows, machine learning,…

Diego Lombardo

Former PhD student 🇺🇾 (with Demian Battaglia and Mira Didic, Marseille) Alzheimer’s disease, sleep deprivation, dynamic functional connectivity, …

Wesley Clawson

Former PhD student 🇺🇸 (with Demian Battaglia and Christophe Bernard, Marseille) Machine-learning and information theory analyses of electrophysiological data, …

Agostina Palmigiano

Former PhD student 🇦🇷 (with Demian Battaglia and Theo Geisel, Göttingen) Oscillatory dynamics and routing, theory and modelling

Markus Helmer

Former PhD student 🇩🇪 (with Demian Battaglia and Theo Geisel, Göttingen) Complex data analysis, modelling of meso-scale circuits

Christoph Kirst

Former PhD student 🇩🇪 (with Demian Battaglia, directed by Marc Timme, Göttingen) Analysis and theory of coupled oscillator networks, information theory,…

Olav Stetter

Former PhD student 🇩🇪 (with Demian Battaglia and Theo Geisel, Göttingen) Connectivity reconstruction with Transfer Entropy, computational modelling

Jean-Bastien Bott

Former PhD student 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny and Chantal Mathis, Strasbourg) Alzheimer’s disease, hippocampal oscillations, theta-gamma coupling…

Valentine Hamm

Former PhD student 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny, Strasbourg) Alzheimer’s disease, behavior, pharmacology…