LN Alumni
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Since the first thesis defense in May 2005, 66 students have graduated from the LN Doctoral School.
This picture was taken at the public defense of our 40th graduate, Fabio Longordo, on November 25th 2009. Under the supervision of Anita Lüthi, he studied the consequences of sleep deprivation on the excitatory synaptic transmission and plasticity in the adult hippocampus.
LN Graduates
Since the first thesis defense in May 2005, 75 students have graduated from the LN Doctoral School:
1) Marie-Louise Montandon - Unige
Directors: A.de Ribaupierre & D.Rüfenacht
25 May 2005
2) Brigitte Angenieux - Unil
Director: Daniel Schorderet
18 November 2005
3) Marija Vukicevic - Unil
Director: Stephan Kellenberger
13 January 2006
4) Angelica Perez-Fornos - Unige
Director: M.Pelizzone
10 April 2006
5) Anouk Déruaz - Unige
Director: Avinoam Safran
22 May 2006
6) Yann Bernardinelli - Unil
Directors: Jean-Yves Chatton & Pierre Magistretti
29 June 2006
7) Olivier Poirot – Unil
Director: Stephan Kellenberger, Laurent Schild
14 July 2006
8) Patrice Quintana – Unige
Director: Dominique Muller
27 September 2006
9) Julie Chenal - Unil
Directors: Luc Pellerin, Pierre Magistretti
10 May 2007
10) Suzie Lavoie – Unil
Director: Kim Do
9 May 2007
11) Luca Cocchi – Unil
Directors: Françoise Schenk, Pascal Vianin
1 June 2007
12) Laura de Santis – Unil
Directors Micah Murray & Stephanie Clarke
26 September 2007
13) Céline Guerin – Unil
Directors: Luca Regli
11 January 2008
14) Lucas Spierer – Unil
Directors: Stephanie Clarke
17 March 2008
15) Shahar Arzy - Unige
Directors: Olaf Blanke
17 December 2007
16) Jeremy Grivel - Unige
Directors: Michel Mühlethaler
7 February 2008
17) Clara James - Unige
Directors: Claude-Alain Hauert
20 March 2008
18) Fabien Pichon - Unil
Director: Egbert Welker
29 February 2008
19) Adam Kundzewicz - Unil
Director: Daniel Schorderet
28 March 2008
20) Marie Schaer - Unige
Director: Stephan Eliez
10th September 2008
21) Gwen LABOUEBE - Unige
Director: Christian Lüscher
12 March 2008
22) Marta LOMAZZI - Unige
Director: Christian Lüscher
12 March 2008
23) Temugin BERTA - Unil
Director: Isabelle Décosterd
5 June 2008
24) Anne-Sophie DE PREUX - Unil
Director: Jacques Beckmann and Roman Chrast
20 June 2008
25) Carolyn SACCO - Unil
Director: Stephanie Clarke
4 July 2008
26) Pierre Mégevand - Unige
Director: Christoph Michel
29 August 2008
27) Nadia Lucas - Unige
Directeur – Patrik Vuilleumier
September 29th 2008
28) Tonia Rihs - Unige
Director: Christoph Michel
September 26th 2008
29) Annick Salzmann - Unige
Director: Alain Malafosse
October 24th 2008
30) Aurelie Ponz - Unige
Director: Sophie Schwartz
December 19th 2008
31) Anne Vaslin - Unil
Director: Peter Clarke
20 February 2009
32) Paul Klauser - Unige
Director: Dominique Muller
16 December 2008
33) Emanuela Baccaglioni - Unil
Director: Andrea Volterra
2009
34) Manuel Mameli - Unige
Director: Christian Lüscher
2009
35) Angèle Brunellière - Unige
Director: Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder
May 2009
36) Delphine Preissmann - Unil
Director: Françoise Schenk
June 2009
37) Agustina Maria Lascano - Unige
Director: Christoph Michel
20 August 2009
38) Mélanie Genetti - Unige
Director: Christoph Michel
2 September 2009
39) Romilda Chalard - Unil
Director: Françoise Schenk
2009
40) Fabio Longordo - Unil
Director: Anita Lüthi
24 Septembre 2009
41) Lorenzo Poglia - Unige
Director: Dominique Muller
25 September 2009
42) Khaleel Bhaukaurally - Unil
Director: Andrea Volterra
Octobre 29th 2009
43) Pascal Vrticka - Unige
Director: Patrick Vuilleumier
1 December 2009
44) Roland Vocat - Unige
Director: Patrik Vuilleumier
11 December 2009
45) Anouchka Pickenhagen - Unil
Director: Ron Stoop
December 4th 2009
46) Karsten Rauss - Unige
Director: Sophie Schwartz
January 2010
47) Julie Marchaland - Unil
Director: Paola Bezzi and Romano Regazzi
January 15th 2010
48) Daniele Viviani - Unil
Director: Ron Stoop
December 18th 2009
50) Hélène Tzieropoulos - Unige
Director: Sara Gonzalez
2010
51) Stephanie Duhoux - Unige
Director: Sophie Schwartz
2010
52) Vanessa Ginet - Unil
Director: Peter Clarke
2010
53) Nathalie Johnson-Wenger - Unil
Director: Egbert Welker
2010
54) Antoinette Defaux - Unil
Director: Paul Honegger
2010
55) Guillaume Azarias - Unil
Director: Jean-Yves Chatton
July 30th 2010
56) Benoîte Bargeton - Unil
Director - Stephan Kellenberger
2010
57) Lionel Breuillaud - Unil
Director – Jean-René Cardinaux
December 2010
58) Jean-François Knebel - Unil
Director – Micah Murray
January 28th 2011
59) Nadia Steiner - Unil
Director – Benjamin Boutrel
January 14th 2011
60) Irina Constantinescu - Unige
Directors – Sophie Schwartz & Margitta Seek
March 21st 2011
61) Holger Sperdin - Unil
Director – Micah Murray
2011
62) Julia Parafita - Unil
Director – Pierre Magistretti
2011
63) Annalaura Lagioia - Unige
Director – Stephan Eliez
July 2011
64) Corinne Benakis - Unil
Directors – Lorenz Hirt & Richard Frackowiak
2011
65) Raffaella Guidi - Unil
Director – Jean-René Cardinaux
2011
66) Mathieu Niquille - Unil
Director – Cécile Lebrand
2011
67) Amal Achaibou - Unige
Directors – Sophie Schwartz, Patrik Vuilleumier & David Sander
May 2011
68) Anita Kulak - Unil
Director – Kim Do
2011
69) Michiko Kanemitsu - Unige
Director – Joszef Kiss
July 12th 2011
70) Charles Finsterwald - Unil
Director – Jean-Luc Martin
2011
71) Michael De Pretto - Unige
Director – Claude-Alain Hauert
July 2011
72) Gaël Potter - Unige
Director – Joszef Kiss
July 2011
73) Maite Cachafeiro - Unil
Director – Yvan Arsenijevik
2011
74) Nathalie Bourquin - Unil
Director – Stephanie Clarke
August 10th 2011
75) Camille Viviani - Unil
Director – Luc Pellerin
2011
Current Careers
These are some examples of what our graduates do after their PhD:
| Name | Position |
| 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 |
| Angèle Brunellière | Postdoc, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) |
| Julie Chenal | Clinical Research Assistant, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada |
| Luca Cocchi | Postdoc, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, 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) |
| Clara James | Master Assistant, 3-year FNRS project on brain plasticity in musicians, FAPSE, Geneva |
| Paul Klauser | Medical Doctor specializing in Child and adolescent psychiatry, Service médico-pédagogique, Geneva |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lucas Spierer | First University Assistant, Clarke lab, CHUV/Univ. of Lausanne |
| Hélène Tzieropoulos | Research Scientist in Nestlé, Switzerland |
| Jeremy Grivel | Researcher, CHUV, Lausanne |
Join the LN Alumni
If you obtained your PhD at the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School and wish to join the LN Alumni, please contact the LN coordinator.
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.
