
Name	Institution	Research Topic
Arsenijevic, Yvan	Hop. Ophtalmique	Retinal degeneration and regeneration
Bader, Michel	CHUV
Bagni, Claudia	UNIL-DNF	Fragile X Syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia
Barisnikov, Koviljka	UNIGE-FAPSE	Study of cognitive and socio-emotional abilities in neuro-developmental disorders
Barral, Jerôme	UNIL	Development and control of motor functions
Barrouillet, Pierre	UNIGE-FAPSE	Cognitive processes involved in reasoning, mathematics, working memory and executive functions
Bavelier, Daphne	UNIGE-FAPSE	attention, brain plasticity, deafness, video games
Bellone, Camilla	UNIGE-CMU	Reward circuit dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
Benninger, David	CHUV	Clinical neurophysiology and non-invasive brain stimulation
Benton, Richard	UNIL-CIG	Chemosensory perception and evolution in insects
Berney, Alexandre	CHUV
Berna Renella, Chantal	CHUV	Pain mechanisms in humans; brain imaging
Bernheim, Laurent	UNIGE-CMU	Study of skeletal muscle regeneration
Bezzi, Paola	UNIL-DNF	Imaging regulated secretion processes in the brain
Bijlenga, Philippe	HUG	Cerebral ischemia
Blanke, Olaf	EPFL-BMI	Functional and neural mechanisms of body perception, corporeal awareness, and self consciousness
Bloch, Jocelyne	CHUV	Neurosurgery; Neuroprosthetics
Boutrel, Benjamin	CHUV-CNP	Neurobiology of Addiction, Stress and Craving
Braissant, Olivier	CHUV	Alteration of CNS development due to inborn errors of metabolism
Braschler, Thomas	UNIGE-CMU	Regenerative cell therapy in the brain for stroke and Parkinson’s disease, Soft tissue reconstruction
Brandner, Catherine	UNIL-SSP	Sex differences / Visuospatial cognition
Broillet, Marie-Christine	UNIL-DPT	Cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels / Olfaction.
Cardinaux, Jean-René	CHUV-CNP	Addiction: molecular mechanisms of plasticity
Carleton, Alan	UNIGE-CMU	Sensory Perception and Plasticity
Chanal, Julien	UNIGE-FPSE	Self-determination theory
Chatton, Jean-Yves	UNIL-DNF	Imaging the neuron-glia metabolic interplay
Clarke, Stephanie	CHUV-Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation
Corradi-Dell'Acqua, Corrado	UNIGE-FPSE	Body and pain perception
Courtine, Gregoire	EPFL-BMI	Neurorehabilitation and Neuroregeneration


Name	Institution	Research Topic
Dayer, Alexandre	UNIGE-CMU	Study of basic neuro-developmental processes such as cortical migration and early dendritic development and their implication in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders
Decosterd, Isabelle	CHUV-Anesthesiology / UNIL-DNF	Mechanisms of pain
Debbané, Martin	UNIGE-FPSE	Psychiatric Neuroscience; Development
De Lucia, Marzia	CHUV	Brain function in coma
Despland, Jean-Nicolas	CHUV
Do, Kim Q.	CHUV-CNP	Translational research in schizophrenia
Draganski, Bogdan	CHUV-Neurology	Anatomical characterization of cortical and subcortical structures
Du Pasquier, Renaud	CHUV
Eap, Chin-Bin	CHUV-CNP	Clinical biochemistry and psychopharmacology
El-Boustani, Sami	UNIGE-CMU	Learning, multisensory integration, perceptual inference, synaptic plasticity
Eliez, Stephan	UNIGE & OMP	Study of neurogenetic syndromes and psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
Fasshauer, Dirk	UNIL-DNF	Molecular mechanisms of neuronal secretion
Franck, Julie	UNIGE-FPSE	Psycholinguistics, Language development and cognition
Franken, Paul	UNIL-CIG	Sleep and energy homeostasis, circadian clock genes, QTL analysis, genetics of EEG activity
Gamma, Franziska	CHUV
Gasche, Yvan	HUG	Molecular mechanisms of blood-brain barrier disruption and neuronal degeneration in cerebral ischemia
Gatfield, David	UNIL-CIG	Circadian clocks, miRNAs, translation, RNA binding proteins, post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, metabolism
Gerstner, Wulfram	EPFL-BMI	Models of spiking neurons and spike-timing dependent plasticity / Neuronal coding in single neurons and populations / Role of spatial representation for navigation of rat-like autonomous agents
Ginovart, Nathalie	UNIGE-HUG	PET; vulnerabilty to addiction
Giraud, Anne-Lise	UNIGE-CMU	Neural bases of speech processing. Electrophysiology and computational modeling
Graeff, Johannes	EPFL-BMI	Long-term memories and their loss in neurodegeneration. Recovery from traumatic memories
Grandjean, Didier	UNIGE-FPSE	Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics
Gruetter, Rolf	EPFL-CIBM	Bio-medical Imaging / In vivo neurochemistry and hypoglycemia
Guggisberg, Adrian	HUG	Imaging-assisted neurorehabilitation
Herzog, Michael	EPFL-BMI	Basic mechanisms of visual processing in human observers
Hirt, Lorenz	CHUV / UNIL-DNF	Experimental stroke and neuroprotection
Holtmaat, Anthony	UNIGE-CMU	Structural synaptic plasticity
Horsch, Antje	UNIL-IUFRS & CHUV	Perinatal psychology (stress and trauma)
Huber, Daniel	UNIGE-CMU	Neural circuits and behavior
Hummel, Friedhelm	EPFL & UNIGE	Neuroplasticity, neuronal control of sensorimotor function, motor learning, healthy aging
Hüppi, Petra	HUG	Child Development Disorders: Study of normal and abnormal brain development in high risk neonates with neuro-imaging


Name	Institution	Research Topic
Ibañez, Vicente	HUG	Brain imaging of neuropsychiatric disorders: functional cognitive processing, glucose metabolism, dopaminergic transmission and molecular binding in Alzheimer disease and schizophrenia
Ionta, Silvio	Hopt. Ophtalmique	Study of causal link between (dysfunctional) neural activity and (distorted) behavioral phenotypes
Jabaudon, Denis	UNIGE-CMU	Molecular controls over the development and plasticity of cerebral cortical maps
Jolivet, Renaud	UNIGE-Sciences	Brain energy consumption and imaging
Kaiser, Stefan	HUG	Negative symptoms of schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders
Kellenberger, Stephan	UNIL-DSB	Function and structure-function relationship of acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs)
Kerzel, Dirk	UNIGE-FPSE	Cognitive Psychology: How attention and perceptual factors interact in the visual guidance of eye and hand movements
Kherif, Ferath	CHUV-Neurology	Study of inter-subject variation to understand the neural basis of cognitive processes in normal and abnormal populations
Kiss, Jozsef	UNIGE-CMU	Neuromorphology: A Neural stem/progenitor cell based approach for brain repair
Knobloch, Marlen	UNIL-DSB	Impact of ageing and disease on metabolic regulation of stem cells and adult neurogenesis
Knott, Graham	EPFL-CIME	Electron microscopy
Kostic, Corinne	Hop. Ophtalmique	Retinal disorders
Kuntzer, Thierry	CHUV	Neurology: muscle and peripheral nerve disorders
Lalive, Patrice	HUG	Neuroimmunology
Lamy, Christophe	UNIGE	Neural circuits of behavior, Neurometabolic interactions
Landis, Basile	HUG	Rhinology and Olfactology: Clinical investigations of chemical senses disorders (olfaction, taste and trigeminal sense) and psychophysical and objective (evoked potentials) testing of these modalities.
Lashuel, Hilal	EPFL-BMI	Molecular Neurobiology and Functional Neuroproteomics: structural basis of amyloid-associated toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease.
Lavenex, Pierre	UNIL-SSP	Brain and cognitive development - Neurobiological basis of learning and memory across the lifespan - Neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders
Levivier, Marc	CHUV-Neurochirurgie	Radiochirurgie, neurochirurgie stéréotaxique et fonctionnelle, tumeurs cérébrales
Lüscher, Christian	UNIGE-CMU	Addiction and Dopamine System: Study of phenomena of synaptic transmission and plasticity in the ventral tegmental area to elucidate mechanims underlying addiction.
Lüthi, Anita	UNIL-DNF	Physiology of sleep and cognitive functions


Name	Institution	Research Topic
Maeder, Philippe	CHUV	Neuroradiologie diagnostique
Magara, Fulvio	CHUV-CNP	Neurobiology of mood and perinatal stress
Magistretti, Pierre	EPFL-BMI	Cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain energy metabolism
Mameli, Manuel	UNIL-DNF	Behavioral adaptations following synaptic modifications in discrete neuronal circuit
Markram, Henry	EPFL-BMI	Structure, function and plasticity of the microcircuitry of the neocortex
Martin, Jean Luc	CHUV-CNP / UNIL-DP	Neuronal Development and Depression
Matter, Jean-Marc	UNIGE-Sciences	Neurogenesis: Cell cycle progression and neuronal determination
Matusz, Paul	CHUV	Cognitive development; Understand and improve people’s functioning in real-world environments
Maurer, Roland	UNIGE-FPSE	Human Spatial Orientation
Meuli, Reto	CHUV
Micali, Nadia	UNIGE-HUG	Psychiatric Neuroscience; Development; Eating Disorders
Michel, Christoph	UNIGE-CMU	Functional Brain Mapping: Dynamic Electric Neuroimaging of large-scale cerebral neuronal networks in the healthy and pathological human brain
Michel, Patrik	CHUV	Neuroplasticity; Stroke
Millet, Philippe	HUG	PET and SPECT Quantification: Quantification of PET ligand-binder interactions
Mohr, Christine	UNIL-SSP	Experimental Study of Behavior
Mühlethaler, Michel	UNIGE-CMU	Sleep Networks: Neural networks involved in sleep and wakefulness
Murray, Micah	CHUV-Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Radiology	Multisensory interactions
Nagoshi, Emi	UNIGE-Sciences III	Behavioral neuroscience and neurodegeneration. Circadian rhythms. Parkinson's disease. Drosophila & mammals.
Neukomm, Lukas	DNF-UNIL	Molecular mechanisms of axon survival and degeneration
Nikoletopoulou, Vassiliki	UNIL-DNF	Autophagic mechanisms of protein homeostasis in neurons
Oddo, Mauro	CHUV	Neuroreanimation; Cerebral metabolism in brain-lesioned patients
Paolicelli, Rosa Chiara	UNIL-DSB	Microglia; brain development
Novy, Jan	CHUV	Epilepsy treatment, markers for treatment responses
Pérez Fornos, Angélica	CHUV	Vestibular neuroprostetics
Petersen, Carl	EPFL-BMI	Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception and associative learning
Plomp, Gijs	UNIFR	Perceptual networks in vision
Popp, Julius	CHUV-CNP	Neuropsychiatry, neurodegeneration, biomarkers, neurocognitive disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, neuroimmunology
Pouget, Alexandre	UNIGE-CMU	Neural basis of probabilistic inference
Preisig, Martin	CHUV-CNP
Preuschoff, Kerstin	UNIGE	Decision making under uncertainty, in the context of financial economics
Prior, John	CHUV
Ptak, Radek	HUG-Beau-Séjour	Spatial Attention, Perception and Action
Pun, Thierry	UNIGE-Sciences	Computer Vision and Multimedia: interested in multimodal interaction, affective computing, brain-computer interaction, emotions analysis
Puyal, Julien	UNIL-DNF	Neuroprotection against neonatal stroke and asphyxia
Rainer, Gregor	UNIFR	Cognitive functions in the tree shrew and primate visual system, with particular focus on short-term memory, attention and visual learning and the impact of neuromodulation on these processes
Rasch, Bjorn	UNIFR	Role of sleep for cognitive and affective brain functions
Rodriguez, Ivan	UNIGE-Sciences	Developmental and Molecular Biology of Sensory Systems
Rossetti, Andrea	CHUV-Neurology	Status epilepticus. Outcome prognostication after cerebral anoxia


Name	Institution	Research Topic
Sander, David	UNIGE-FPSE	Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion: Investigation of cognitive mechanisms involved in the processing of self-relevant stimuli, and how these processes elicit emotions and modulate attention and memory.
Sandi, Carmen	EPFL-BMI	Stress and cognitive function
Savioz, Armand	HUG	Neocortical vulnerability, compensatory mechanisms and cerebral reserve in aging and Alzheimer's disease
Schaer, Marie	UNIGE & OMP	Autism
Schaller, Karl	HUG	Mechanisms of cerebral ischemia and pathophysiology of cerebral blood flow
Schechter, Daniel	CHUV-CNP	Early Childhood Stress project
Schneggenburger, Ralf	EPFL-BMI	Presynaptic mechanisms underlying short-term plasticity
Schnider, Armin	HUG	Cognitive Neurorehabilitation: Amnesia and Confabulation: Mechanisms and Rehabilitation.
Schwartz, Sophie	UNIGE-CMU	Sleep and Cognition Neuroimaging
Seeck, Margitta	HUG	EEG and Epilepsy
Senn, Pascal	HUG	Inner ear biology; Therapeutic approaches in deafness
Serino, Andrea	CHUV	Multisensory mechanisms of underlying the representation of Peripersonal Space (PPS)
Simmler, Linda	UNIGE-CMU	Mechanism-based reversal of pathological synaptic plasticity in OCD as strategy for Pharmacological treatment
Spierer, Lucas	UNIFR	Clinical and functional neuroimaging investigations of learning-induced cortical plasticity
Stoop, Ron	CHUV-CNP	Neurobiology of anxiety: role of the amygdala
Suter, Marc	CHUV	Neuropathy; Chronic Pain
Tafti, Mehdi	UNIL-DSB	Genetic basis of sleep
Tenenbaum, Liliane	CHUV	Gene transfer for cellular and gene therapy of Parkinson's disease
Telley, Ludovic	UNIL-DNF	Cerebellum; Motor functions
Thevenot, Catherine	UNIL-SSP	Development of numerical abilities; Dyscalculia
Toni, Nicolas	CHUV-CNP	Synaptic integration of new neurons in the adult hippocampus
Truttmann, Anita	UNIL-DNF	Neuroprotection against neonatal stroke and asphyxia
Ugazio, Giuseppe	UNIGE-GSEM	Social behavior; Decision-making; Moral values
Van De Ville, Dimitri	EPFL & UNIGE	Signal and image processing; Brain network dynamics
Volterra, Andrea	UNIL-DNF	Glia, an active synaptic partner : from physiology to neurodegeneration
Von Gunten, Armin	CHUV-CNP
Vuilleumier, Patrik	UNIGE-CMU	Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition: Combining functional brain imaging and neuropsychology to study cognitive functions, perception, and emotion, in healthy and brain-lesioned people
Vulliemoz, Serge	HUG	Epilepsy and Brain Networks
Vutskits, Laszlo	HUG	Neuroscience-oriented Anesthesia: Investigating the effects of anesthetics on the developing central nervous system.
Zaidi, Habib	HUG	PET Instrumentation and Neurosciences: Novel instrumentation technologies development, improvement of image reconstruction techniques, modeling/simulation tools and quantitative analysis strategies for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images
Zesiger, Pascal	UNIGE-FPSE	Processing, acquisition and disorders of language : Early lexical acquisition in infants and toddlers, role of phonology and phonological working memory in lexical and grammatical acquisition in 4-5 year-olds, acquisition of lexical and grammatical spelling in school-aged children.
Zurich Fontanellaz, Marie-Gabrielle	UNIL-DSB	Cellular pathways of environmental adverse effects

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