Faculty & Team
Faculty of Science and Medicine
Dept. of Neuro- and Movement Sciences
Investigates brain circuit operations in the visual system — vision in health and disease, brain plasticity, cortical prosthesis for blindness, and developmental dyslexia.
Neural mechanisms of cognition and learning, basal forebrain in attention, brain state regulation. Uses multi-electrode recordings, optogenetics, and calcium imaging.
Dept. of Informatics
Prof. Denis Lalanne
Professor of Informatics, Director of Human-IST Institute
Human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction, information visualization, human-building interaction, and human-centered AI. Swiss representative at IFIP TC13.
Geometric and topological deep learning, topological data analysis, foundations of machine learning. ERC Starting Grant recipient. Heads the AIDOS Lab.
Prof. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
Professor of Informatics, President of the Department
Big Data management, knowledge graphs, semantic web, and AI infrastructures. ERC Consolidator Grant and Google Faculty Research Award recipient. Directs the eXascale Infolab.
Faculty of Humanities
Dept. of Psychology
Visual and social neuroscience, face recognition, eye tracking, cultural differences in visual perception. Directs the Eye and Brain Mapping Laboratory (iBMLab).
Cognitive neuroscience and sleep science — how thoughts, emotions, and psychological factors affect sleep and memory consolidation. ERC Starting Grant recipient.
Program Coordination
Ph.D. in Cognitive and Behavioural Neurosciences. Postdoctoral experience at Newcastle University and University of Freiburg. Leads the MINDCRAFT interdisciplinary research platform.
