LN Alumni
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Since the first thesis defense in May 2005, 100 PhD students have graduated from the LN Doctoral School.
The public defense of our 100th graduate, Yves Gouriou, took place in May 8th 2013. Under the supervision of Nicolas Demaurex (Unige) and Philippe Bijlenga (HUG), Yves studied the role of t-type calcium channels in a cellular model of stroke.
In the picture, from left to right, Philippe Bijlenga (thesis co-director), Yves Gouriou (LN graduate), Anita Lüthi (expert), Nicolas Demaurex (thesis director), Philippe Lory and Laurent Bernheim (experts).
LN Graduates
| PhD Candidate | Director(s) | Date | |
| 1 | Marie-Louise Montandon - Unige | A. de Ribaupierre & D. Rüfenacht | May 2005 |
| 2 | Brigitte Angenieux - Unil | Daniel Schorderet | November 2005 |
| 3 | Marija Vukicevic - Unil | Stephan Kellenberger | January 2006 |
| 4 | Angelica Perez-Fornos - Unige | M.Pelizzone | April 2006 |
| 5 | Anouk Déruaz - Unige | Avinoam Safran | May 2006 |
| 6 | Yann Bernardinelli - Unil | Jean-Yves Chatton & Pierre Magistretti | June 2006 |
| 7 | Olivier Poirot – Unil | Stephan Kellenberger & Laurent Schild | July 2006 |
| 8 | Patrice Quintana | Dominique Muller | September 2006 |
| 9 | Julie Chenal - Unil | Luc Pellerin, Pierre Magistretti | May 2007 |
| 10 | Suzie Lavoie – Unil | Kim Do | May 2007 |
| 11 | Luca Cocchi – Unil | Françoise Schenk, Pascal Vianin | June 2007 |
| 12 | Laura de Santis – Unil | Micah Murray & Stephanie Clarke | September 2007 |
| 13 | Céline Guerin – Unil | Luca Regli | January 2008 |
| 14 | Lucas Spierer – Unil | Stephanie Clarke | March 2008 |
| 15 | Shahar Arzy - Unige | Olaf Blanke | December 2007 |
| 16 | Jeremy Grivel - Unige | Michel Mühlethaler | February 2008 |
| 17 | Clara James - Unige | Claude-Alain Hauert | March 2008 |
| 18 | Fabien Pichon - Unil | Egbert Welker | February 2008 |
| 19 | Adam Kundzewicz - Unil | Daniel Schorderet | March 2008 |
| 20 | Marie Schaer - Unige | Stephan Eliez | September 2008 |
| 21 | Gwen Labouebe - Unige | Christian Lüscher | March 2008 |
| 22 | Marta LOMAZZI - Unige | Christian Lüscher | March 2008 |
| 23 | Temugin BERTA - Unil | Isabelle Décosterd | June 2008 |
| 24 | Anne-Sophie DE PREUX - Unil | Jacques Beckmann & Roman Chrast | June 2008 |
| 25 | Carolyn SACCO - Unil | Stephanie Clarke | July 2008 |
| 26 | Pierre Mégevand - Unige | Christoph Michel | August 2008 |
| 27 | Nadia Lucas - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier | September 2008 |
| 28 | Tonia Rihs - Unige | Christoph Michel | September 2008 |
| 29 | Annick Salzmann - Unige | Alain Malafosse | October 2008 |
| 30 | Aurelie Ponz - Unige | Sophie Schwartz | December 2008 |
| 31 | Anne Vaslin - Unil | Peter Clarke | February 2009 |
| 32 | Paul Klauser - Unige | Dominique Muller | December 2008 |
| 33 | Emanuela Baccaglioni - Unil | Andrea Volterra | 2009 |
| 34 | Manuel Mameli - Unige | Christian Lüscher | 2009 |
| 35 | Angèle Brunellière - Unige | Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder | May 2009 |
| 36 | Delphine Preissmann - Unil | Françoise Schenk | June 2009 |
| 37 | Agustina Maria Lascano - Unige | Christoph Michel | August 2009 |
| 38 | Mélanie Genetti - Unige | Christoph Michel | September 2009 |
| 39 | Romilda Chalard - Unil | Françoise Schenk | 2009 |
| 40 | Fabio Longordo - Unil | Anita Lüthi | September 2009 |
| 41 | Lorenzo Poglia - Unige | Dominique Muller | September 2009 |
| 42 | Khaleel Bhaukaurally - Unil | Andrea Volterra | October 2009 |
| 43 | Pascal Vrticka - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier | December 2009 |
| 44 | Roland Vocat - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier | December 2009 |
| 45 | Anouchka Pickenhagen - Unil | Ron Stoop | December 2009 |
| 46 | Karsten Rauss - Unige | Sophie Schwartz | January 2010 |
| 47 | Julie Marchaland - Unil | Paola Bezzi & Romano Regazzi | 15 January 2010 |
| 48 | Daniele Viviani - Unil | Ron Stoop | December 2009 |
| 49 | Hélène Tzieropoulos - Unige | Sara Gonzalez | 2010 |
| 50 | Stephanie Duhoux - Unige | Sophie Schwartz | 2010 |
| 51 | Vanessa Ginet - Unil | Peter Clarke | 2010 |
| 52 | Nathalie Johnson-Wenger - Unil | Egbert Welker | 2010 |
| 53 | Antoinette Defaux - Unil | Paul Honegger | 2010 |
| 54 | Guillaume Azarias - Unil | Jean-Yves Chatton | July 2010 |
| 55 | Benoîte Bargeton - Unil | Stephan Kellenberger | 2010 |
| 56 | Lionel Breuillaud - Unil | Jean-René Cardinaux | December 2010 |
| 57 | Jean-François Knebel - Unil | Micah Murray | January 2011 |
| 58 | Nadia Steiner - Unil | Benjamin Boutrel | January 2011 |
| 59 | Irina Constantinescu - Unige | Sophie Schwartz & Margitta Seek | March 2011 |
| 60 | Holger Sperdin - Unil | Micah Murray | 2011 |
| 61 | Julia Parafita - Unil | Pierre Magistretti | 2011 |
| 62 | Annalaura Lagioia - Unige | Stephan Eliez | July 2011 |
| 63 | Corinne Benakis - Unil | Lorenz Hirt & Richard Frackowiak | 2011 |
| 64 | Raffaella Guidi - Unil | Jean-René Cardinaux | 2011 |
| 65 | Mathieu Niquille - Unil | Cécile Lebrand | 2011 |
| 66 | Amal Achaibou - Unige | Sophie Schwartz, Patrik Vuilleumier & David Sander | May 2011 |
| 67 | Anita Kulak - Unil | Kim Do | 2011 |
| 68 | Michiko Kanemitsu - Unige | Joszef Kiss | July 2011 |
| 69 | Charles Finsterwald - Unil | Jean-Luc Martin | 2011 |
| 70 | Michael De Pretto - Unige | Claude-Alain Hauert | July 2011 |
| 71 | Gaël Potter - Unige | Joszef Kiss | July 2011 |
| 72 | Maite Cachafeiro - Unil | Yvan Arsenijevik | 2011 |
| 73 | Nathalie Bourquin - Unil | Stephanie Clarke | August 2011 |
| 74 | Camille Viviani - Unil | Luc Pellerin | October 2011 |
| 75 | Fosco Bernasconi - Unil | Lucas Spierer & Stephanie Clarke | October 2011 |
| 76 | Michaël Mouthon - Unige | Jean-Marie Annoni | 2011 |
| 77 | Maxime Blanchard - Unil | Stephan Kellenberger | January 2012 |
| 78 | Corrado Cali – Unil | Paola Bezzi | May 2012 |
| 79 | Elidie Beard – Unil | Olivier Braissant | June 2012 |
| 80 | Jennifer Zenker – Unil | Roman Chrast | May 2012 |
| 81 | Hamdi Eryilmaz - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier, Sophie Schwartz & Dimitri Van de Ville | April 2012 |
| 82 | Christina Bocklisch - Unige | Christian Lüscher | April 2012 |
| 83 | Delphine Valloton – Unil | Cécile Lebrand | May 2012 |
| 84 | Arnaud Lalive D’Epinay - Unige | Christian Lüscher | March 2012 |
| 85 | Sophie Jarlier - Unige | P.Vuilleumier, D.Grandjean & K.Scherer | 2012 |
| 86 | Olivier Gschwend - Unige | Alan Carleton | 2012 |
| 87 | Aurélien Boillat - Unil | Stephan Kellenberger | August 2012 |
| 88 | Aurélie Manuel – Unil | Lucas Spierer & Stephanie Clarke | August 2012 |
| 89 | Adrian Briner - Unige | Lazslo Vutskis | 2012 |
| 90 | Johanna Wiebke Trost - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier | 2012 |
| 91 | Leonie Koban - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier | 2012 |
| 92 | Eloisa Zgraggen - Unige | Jozsef Kiss | 2012 |
| 93 | Sylvain Steen - Unige | Dominique Muller | 2012 |
| 94 | Ralf Wimmer - Unil | Anita Lüthi | October 2012 |
| 95 | Athina Tzovara - Unil | Marzia de Lucia & Micah Murray | October 2012 |
| 96 | Claudia V. Lietti - Unil | Micah Murray | Nov 2012 |
| 97 | Camille Piguet - Unige | Patrik Vuilleumier | 2012 |
| 98 | Michael Kielar- Unil-CHUV | A. Croquelois & E. Welker | 2013 |
| 99 | Sonia Bolea | JP Hornung & A. Holtmaat | 2013 |
| 100 | Yves Gouriou - Unige | Nicolas Demaurex | 2013 |
| 101 | Ayse At - Unil-CHUV | Stephanie Clarke & Lucas Spierer | 2013 |
| 102 | Gabrielle Pouchelon - Unige | Denis Jabaudon | 2013 |
| 103 | Marie-Christine Ottet - Unige | Stefan Eliez | June 3, 2013 |
| 104 | Sviatlana Risz (Dubovik) - Unige | Armin Schnider | 2013 |
| 105 | Cédric Laedermann – Unil | Isabelle Décosterd | 2013 |
| 106 | Giovanni Batistella – CHUV | Philippe Maeder & Eleonara Fornari | July 3, 2013 |
| 107 | Aurelie Bouzerda-Wahlen - Unige | Armin Schnider | 21 June 2013 |
| 108 | Leonardo Ceravolo - Unige | Didier Grandjean | July 3, 2013 |
Join the LN Alumni
If you obtained your PhD at the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School and wish to become an LN Alumni, you can do so via the ALUMNIL platform.
We wish to create a network of scientists to exchange job experiences with each other and also with PhD students who are still working on their thesis.
Current positions of LN Alumni
These are some examples of what our graduates do after their PhD:
| Name | Position |
| Amal Achaibou | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of California |
| Brigitte Angenieux | Postdoc, Kornblum lab, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA |
| Shahar Arzy | Department of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem |
| Guillaume Azarias | Postdoc, Anita Aperia lab, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| Yann Bernardinelli | Marie Curie researcher, Muller lab, CMU, Geneva |
| Temugin Berta | Postdoc, Ji lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
| Nathalie Bourquin | First University Assistant, Stephanie Clarke lab, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland - since 2012 |
| Lionel Breuillaud | Postdoc in M.J. Meaney lab, McGill University, Montreal, Canada - since 2012 |
| Angèle Brunellière | Associate Professor, University of Lille, France |
| Julie Chenal | Medical Information Specialist in Oncology, Merck Serono, Geneva - since 2012 |
| Luca Cocchi | Post Doc, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia |
| Anne-Sophie De Preux | Postdoc, Herwig Baier lab, Department of Physiology, UCSF, San Francisco, USA |
| Laura De Santis | Medical Information Scientist, Eli Lilly, Vernier, Geneva (2009-11) / Co-Manager of the Life Sciences Doctoral Program, University of Lausanne (since April 2011) |
| Stéphanie Duhoux | Postdoc at the Mont Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, US |
| Charles Finsterwald | Postdoc, Cristina Alberini lab, New York University, USA |
| Jeremy Grivel | Researcher, CHUV, Lausanne |
| Clara James | Master Assistant, 3-year FNRS project on brain plasticity in musicians, FAPSE, Geneva |
| Paul Klauser | Academic Visitor / SNF Fellow, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Australia |
| Leonie Koban | Postdoc, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder, US |
| Adam Kundzewicz | Consultant, Simon-Kucher & Partners, Bonn, Germany |
| Gwenaël Labouebe | Postdoc, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Agustina Lascano | Medical Doctor specializing in Neurology, HUG, Geneva |
| Suzie Lavoie | Research Fellow, Orygen Youth Health Research Center, Melbourne, Australia |
| Fabio Longordo | Postdoc in Greg J. Stuart lab, Australian National University |
| Pierre Mégevand | Medical Doctor specializing in Neurology, HUG, Geneva |
| Marie-Louise Montandon | Neuroscientist, PET Instrumentation and Neuroimaging Laboratory, HCUGE, Geneva |
| Anouchka Pickenhagen | Postdoc in Rene Hen lab, Columbia University, New York, USA |
| Camille Piguet | PostDoc and Neuropsychologist at the University and University Hospital of Geneva |
| Karsten Rauss | Postdoc at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Carolyn Sacco | Senior Research Associate, Division of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia, Tamminga lab, UT Southwestern Univ., Dallas, TX, USA |
| Annick Salzmann | Postdoc, Dr Malafosse laboratory, FPSE, Geneva |
| Holger Sperdin | Postdoc, Christoph Michel lab, CMU, Geneva |
| Lucas Spierer | Research Group Leader & Lecturer, University of Fribourg |
| Hélène Tzieropoulos | Postdoc in the Neuropsycholinguistics, University of Geneva |
| Pascal Vrticka | Research scholar in Allan Reiss lab, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Standford University, CA, USA |
