Principal investigators

Romain Goutagny

CNRS research scientist 🇫🇷
Rodent electrophysiology and behavior, hippocampus, oscillations, memory…

Demian Battaglia

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

Postdoc and PhD students

Samy Castro

Postdoctoral fellow 🇨🇱 (with Demian Battaglia and Romain Goutagny) Computational modelling (mean-field whole-brain models, laminar structure, large-scale oscillatory dynamics, exceptional connectomes and exceptional dynamics, higher-order interactions and synergy…)

We have a postdoc opening!

This could be you ! 🌐
Contact us by email if you are interested!

goutagny AT unistra.fr
dbattaglia AT unistra.fr

Sophie Benitez-Stulz

PhD student 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 (with Demian Battaglia) Computational modelling (brain stimulation, distributed effects of local stimulation, dependency on collective dynamical state, effective connectome change through compensation by dynamics…)

Matthieu Aguilera

PhD student 🇫🇷 (with Romain Goutagny and Demian Battaglia) Electrophysiological recordings and behavioral experiments in mice, dynamics-aware data analysis (microstate and avalanches in EEG, large-scale dynamics alterations in Alzheimer’s disease…)

Vinicius Lima

PhD student 🇧🇷 (with Demian Battaglia and Andrea Brovelli, Marseille) Spectral and dynamic network analysis of non-human primate large-scale electrophysiological recordings (working memory), information theory, time-series analysis, computational modelling, open software…

Laura Lopez Galdo

PhD student 🇪🇸 (with Demian Battaglia and Bjorg Kilavik, Marseille) Spectral and machine-learning analysis of non-human primate laminar electrophysiological recordings (motor planning), neuroimaging pipelines (MRI & DTI), …

Coline Portet

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

Jungyoung Kim 김정영

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

Alumni and previous guests (all teams, thus including “pre-FunSy” times)

Vincent Douchamps

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

Jyotika Bahuguna

Former postdoc 🇮🇳 (with Demian Battaglia and Nicole Malfait, Marseille) Machine-learning, graph theory, motor adaptation, basal ganglia, computational modelling,…

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 guest PhD student 🇺🇸 (with Demian Battaglia, directed by 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 guest 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) Alzheimer’s disease, behavior, pharmacology…

About us

How to find us

We are located within the building of the Faculty of Psychology, at the ground floor (LNCA wing, to the right, end of the corridor, entering from Rue Goethe side).

LNCA – 12 rue Goethe, F-67000 STRASBOURG

Tramway lines C/E/F – stop “Université” – Bus line 2 (~15 min from central station) – Strasbourg Entzheim airport at ~40 min, high speed train to Paris CDG and Frankfurt / Main international hubs.