News Archive

New staff

Grants and Awards

• Dr. Matusz starts his Ambizione project with the HES-SO in Sierre.
• Dr. Geiser starts her new position at the Nestle Research Center.

Events

• The LINE relocates its offices to Rue Centrale 7 in the heart of Lausanne.

Outreach

• 8 February 2018: The LINE takes part in Meeting for Mind's Synergies project linking neuroscientists with the PLEX (People with Lived Experience of Mental Illness).
• 8-9 January 2018: Dr. Matusz takes part in a Wellcome Trust outreach initiative linking neuroscientists and educators.

Grants and Awards

• Dr. Ionta receives a prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship.
• Prof. Murray receives a new Swiss National Science Foundation project grant.
• Dr. Matusz receives a prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione project.

Staff

• Ms. Paola Suarez-Ramirez joins the LINE as a PhD student.
• Dr. Benedetta Franceschiello joins the LINE as a post-doctoral fellow.
• Dr. Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar joins the LINE as a post-doctoral fellow.
• Dr. Andrea Biasiucci joins the LINE as a research scientist.
• Dr. Gérard Loquet leaves the LINE to take a professorship at Aarlburg University, Denmark.
• Dr. Chloé Stoll joins the LINE as a post-doctoral fellow.
• Ms. Astrid Minier joins the line as a PhD student.

Events

• A new collaboration between the LINE, The Fondation Asile des Aveugles and HAP2U is launched.

Talks

Grants and Awards

• Prof. Murray received new SNSF grant as principal investigator.
• Dr Matusz receives the 2016 Young Investigator Award from the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, UNIL.
• Dr. Matusz receives grant from the Pierre Mercier Foundation.
• Prof. Murray received grant from Carigest SA.
• Dr. Bueti receives an ERC Consolidator Grant and takes an Associate Professor position at the SISSA in Trieste, Italy.
• Dr. Ionta receives 2-year grant "Techno-Cognitive strategies against maladaptive plasticity" from the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia.
• Mrs. Notter receives a travel award from the Swiss Societ for Neuroscience to attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's Annual Meeting in New York City.
• Mr. Anken receives a travel award from the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School to attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's Annual Meeting in New York City.

Staff

• Ms. Nora Turoman joins the LINE as a PhD student.
• Ms. Ruxandra Tivadar joins the LINE as a PhD student.
• Dr. Gérard Loquet joins the EEG Brain Mapping Core as a research scientist

Events

• Murray et al. (2016, Trends in Neurosciences) on the cover of the August issue.
• Anken et al. (2016, Neuroimage) on the cover of the April issue.
• Murray et al. (2016, Neuropsychologia) among the top 25 recent papers.
• Dr. Geiser named associate editor at Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.
• Prof. Murray named handling editor at Neuroimage.
• Prof. Murray named to the editorial board of Current Biology.
• Sarmiento et al. (2016) featured on the cover of Human Brain Mapping.
   

Theses

• Congratulations to Arnaud Berney, Céline Boéchat, Laetitia Jaggi, and Fanny Vuilleumier on the succesful completion of their MS theses.

Talks

• Prof. Murray speaks at the honorary symposium for André Bullinger
• Prof. Murray participates in “Publishing Workshop for Early Career Researchers” at the upcoming Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York (April 2-5, 2016).
• Prof. Murray chairs symposium at the World Congress of Neurorehabilitation, Philadelphia, PA, USA (May 10-13, 2016).
• Prof. Murray speaks at 18th World Congress of the IOP in Havana, CUba.

Grants & Awards

• Prof. Schnupp & Prof. Murray receive grant from UK's Royal Society for international collaboration.
• Jacques Anken receives a travel grant from the Falk-Vairant Foundation.
• Solange Denervaud receives grant from the Montessori Association
• May-December, 2015: David Perruchoud awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation pro.doc mobility grant to visit the Dept. of Neurological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona (Italy).
• Pawel Matusz receives a travel grant from the Swiss Society for Neuroscience.
• Jeremie Lefebvre receives faculty position at TWRI.
• Rosanna De Meo receives an SNSF post-doc mobility grant.
• Jacques Anken receives a travel grant from the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
   

Staff

• Jeremie Lefebvre named assistant professor at Toronto Western Research Instititute (August 2015)
• Silvio Ionta nominated privat docent.
• Céline Richard nominated privat docent and MER
• Chrysa Retsa joins the LINE as an NCCR-Synapsy post-doc.
• Tali Shrem visits the LINE from Leon Deouell's laboratory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
• Carol Coricello visits the LINE from Raffaella Rumiatti's laboratory at the SISSA in Trieste, Italy.
• Joseph Nour visits the LINE from Oxford University, UK.
• Camille Verascon completes her bachelor's project in the LINE.
• The LINE welcomes Drs. Andrea Biasiucci and Andrea Maesani from Intento as affiliated scientists as we begin a collaborative clinical trial.

Events

• Dr. Matusz speaks at 31st International Pupil Colloquium in Oxford, UK
• Prof. Murray speaks at Brains Take on Art at the Gallery Rossi.
• Prof. Murray speaks at the Salon Plus in Lausanne.
• Dr. Lefevre gives tutorial at Computational Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
• Dr. Bueti chairs symposium at Japanese Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
• Dr. Ionta chairs symposium at International Multisensory Research Forum in Pisa, Italy.
• Prof. Murray gives lecture at Swiss Memory Workshop (Spiez, Switzerland).
• Prof. Murray gives lecture during Brain Week.
• Prof. Murray chairs symposium at 14th European Conference on Psychology (Milan, Italy).
• Prof. Murray chairs an invited symposium at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting (San Francisco, USA).
• Prof. Murray gives lecture at the AAAS annual meeting (San Jose, CA, USA).
• Mikhail Lebedev and Silvio Ionta guest edit a special issue of Neuropsychologia on Sensory-Motor Interactions

Events

• Dr. Thelen gives talk at UNIL's "doctoriales"
• Mr. Andrea Biasiucci successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis "Neurotechnology for Brain Repair: Imaging, Enhancing, and Restoring Human Motor Function".
• Dr. Thelen receives faculty prize for her Ph.D. thesis.
• Prof. Murray is an invited speaker at the 5th International Conference on Auditory Cortex in Magdeburg, Germany.
• Prof. Murray gives keynote address at Neuroscience in Sports at the Haute École d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud
• Dr. Toepel serves on faculty at 2014 SISSA International Summer School in Social Cognitive Neuroscience in Trieste, Italy
• Prof. Murray serves on faculty at CUNY-KUNI workshop in Konstanz, Germany
• Dr. Matusz chairs symposium at 2014 International Multisensory Research Forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Dr. Thelen chairs symposium at 2014 International Multisensory Research Forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Prof. Murray and Prof. Christoph Herrmann awarded 2014 Research Prize of the Swiss Brain League.
• Dr. Bueti gives TedX talk in February 2014 in Lausanne.
• Dr. Thelen completes her Ph.D. in February 2014 and received faculty prize for her achievements.
• Sarah Amrein, Camille Creze, Tatiana Kenel-Pierre, Marina Pagliaro, Lena Pasquier, and Giorgio Ulrich successfully complete their masters theses.
• Prof. Murray named associate editor at Frontiers for Young Minds.

Grants

• Dr. Toepel (together with Prof. Tappy and Kries) receive new 3-yr. SNSF grant.
• Dr. Thelen receives Swiss National Science Foundation "Early Post-doc Mobility" grant.
• Dr. Ionto receives Italian Health Ministry grant as a co-investigator.

Staff

• Dr. Athina Tzovara begins post-doctoral fellowship in Prof. Bach's lab in Zurich (September, 2014).
• Ms. Shai Helfand completes a summer undergraduate internship (July-September, 2014).
• Mr. George Kurian completes a "maturité" project (May 2014).
• Mr. Michael Notter begins a research assistant position (April 2014).
• Dr. Silvio Ionta begins his SNSF Ambizione project (February 2014).
• Dr. Paul Matusz begins his post-doc (January 2014).
• Mr. David Perruchoud begins his Ph.D. (February 2014).

Training

• LINE members organize EEG in Neurology & Neuroscience course (September, 2014).
• Ms. Carol Coricelli from the SISSA in Trieste, Italy spends 6 months at the LINE as a visiting PhD student (November, 2014 - May, 2015).

Grants

• Prof. Micah Murray awarded 3-yr Swiss National Science Foundation project on multisensory interactions.
• Dr. Eveline Geiser awarded 3-yr Swiss National Science Foundation AMBIZIONE project "Mechanisms of global timing perception and their influence on perception and cognition".
• Dr. Silvio Ionta awarded 3-yr Swiss National Science Foundation AMBIZIONE project "Validation of a model of sensorimotor integration with clinical benefits".
• Dr. Jérémie Lefebvre awarded 2-yr fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Staff

• Dr. Eveline Geiser starts her SNSF-Ambizione project in November 2013.
• Mr. Jacques Anken starts PhD in October 2013.
• Ms. Marie-Laure Bielser starts PhD in October 2013.