People at the e-Lab
Neuroscientists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, biologists, physicists and engineers combine knowledge and know-how at the e-Lab to crack the mechanisms of cortical dynamics and epilepsy.
Lab retreat 2022 at the lake of Thun
Lab retreat 2024, in front of the Blüemlisalpgletscher
Prof. Maxime Baud, MD, PhD – Principal Investigator
Maxime earned his MD-PhD in neuroscience from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, 2011) before completing his neurology residency at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF, 2015). Through his postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Edward Chang at UCSF, Maxime specialized in human intracranial electrophysiology. He has received several awards including the most prestigious Michael Prize for early-career scientific contributions to epilepsy research. Today, in addition to his role as the principal investigator at the e-Lab, Maxime is the head of the Seizure Unit at the University Hospital of Bern where he leads a program for advanced diagnostics and therapeutics for epilepsy. Maxime lives in Bern with his family and loves to ski and hike in the Alps.
Active members
Camille Mignardot, PhD – Clinical and research engineer
Shani Folschweiller, PhD – Post-doctoral fellow
Shani obtained her master in Neuroscience at the university of Strasbourg and studied oscillations in the prefrontal cortex during her PhD in Freiburg-im-Breisgau. Since 2023, she aims to shed light on seizure dynamics using large scale electrophysiological recordings, optogenetics and advanced data processing techniques. Shani enjoys bouldering and painting.
Forrest Webler, PhD – Post-doctoral fellow
Forrest moved to Switzerland for his PhD at the EPFL after studying physics and biomedical engineering at Brown University. He is deeply passionate about forecasting the dynamics of the brain using physics-inspired approaches. His work at the e-Lab since 2023 focuses on developing seizure forecasting algorithms which will hopefully be used as a prognostic tool for clinicians. In his free time, Forrest builds saunas and occasionally goes sailing.
Monica Alexander – PhD student
Monica obtained her Medical Degree from Saudi Arabia and has joined the e-lab for her PhD in 2024. Her project at the e-Lab focuses on studying the neuronal dynamics and multidien cycle in mice with focal epilepsy. Monica loves the beach and reading.
Enrique Perez Martinez – PhD student
Enrique studied Biology in Madrid and Translational Neuroscience in Seville. At the e-Lab since 2022, Enrique studies the multi-scale cyclical modulation of seizure timing in mouse models of temporal lobe epilepsy. Enrique loves hiking (newly in the Alps !) and watching movies.
Patricia Silva – PhD student
Patrícia graduated in Biomedical Engineering with a master’s degree in Medical Electronics and worked as a research fellow at the University of Porto. Since 2024, she is a PhD student at the e-Lab, focusing on developing a closed-loop recording-stimulation system with real-time EEG monitoring to control physiological and pathological brain oscillations. In her free time, she enjoys knitting and reading.
Roland Widmer – PhD student
Roland Widmer joined the e-Lab in 2023 as a Master student in Data Science while working as a high-school teacher on the side. He left his job to do full time research at the lab as a PhD student. He is studying signaling dynamics in the human brain. Roland enjoys outdoor activities and nature.
Cecilia Friedrichs-Maeder, MD, MSc – Neurologist and research Fellow
Cecilia obtained her MD from the University of Lausanne and holds degrees in biomedical engineering (EPFL) and cognitive neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen and TU Berlin). After a post-doctoral fellowship at King’s college (Prof. M Richardson), she is now an attending neurologist at Inselspital Bern. She seeks practical means to measure cortical excitability in patients with epilepsy, such as to improve pharmacotherapy. Cecilia loves modern art and enjoys to swim and hike in the mountains.
Sabry Barlatey, MD, PhD – Neurosurgery resident
Sabry Barlatey obtained his MD at the University of Lausanne, followed by a MD-PhD in spinal cord repair at EPFL (Prof. Courtine). As a resident in Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Bern, Sabry collaborates with the e-lab to model the propagation of seizures and characterize the plasticity of the human brain. Alpine sports and cycling are his main side-activities.
Igor Mourogov – Master student
Holding a Master’s in Medicine from the University of Strasbourg, Igor is currently enrolled in an international Master’s program in Biomedicine (France, Luxembourg, Germany). Igor joined the e-Lab in 2025 to conduct his Master’s thesis research, which focuses on characterizing seizure cycles in a mouse model of chronic epilepsy. In his free time, Igor enjoys powerlifting, learning new languages, and a good game of chess.
Alumni
Kristina Slabeva, PhD
Master, then PhD student 2018 – 2024
Intern at Machine MD, a startup company specialized in tracking eye movements.
Ellen van Maren, PhD
PhD student 2019 – 2024
Intern clinical development
Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland
Grégory Lepeu, MD, PhD
PhD student 2018 – 2023
Resident in Neurology
CHUV – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Richard Burman, MD, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow 2022 – 2023
Resident and lecturer in Neurosurgery
- Honorary Lecturer and Researcher, Division of Neurosurgery, Neuroscience Institute, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
- Medical Officer, New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Marc Grau Leguia, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow 2019 – 2022
Research associate
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain
Lab collaborators
Athina Tzovara, PhD
University of Bern
Athina Tzovara is an associate Professor with a joint appointment at the Institute of Computer Science (UNIBE) and the Department of Neurology of Inselspital, Bern. As the head of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience lab, her research combines modeling and machine learning techniques with invasive and non invasive recordings of neural activity in humans, to study the neural mechanisms that support human cognition. The Baud and Tzovara labs collaborate to collect and analyze invaluable cognitive data recorded from the human brain in patients implanted with intracranial EEG.
Timothée Proix, PhD
ETHZ
Timothée Proix is an assistant Professor at ETH Zürich and the head of the Neural Dynamics Lab. We collaborate on the development of models of seizure dynamics, with the goal of better forecasting seizures. The e-Lab also helps collecting invaluable language data recorded from the human brain in patients implanted with intracranial EEG.
Vikram Rao, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Vikram Rao is a full Professor of clinical neurology and the head of epileptology at UCSF. Through our collaboration since 2016, we have characterized the multiscale cycles that govern the occurrence of epileptic seizures. Building on this discovery, we continue to develop and validate methods for personalized seizure forecasting, notably through the ongoing ECLIPSE clinical trial .
Päivi Nevalainen, MD, PhD
University Hospital of Helsinki
Päivi is an Adjunct Professor in Clinical Neurophysiology at the University Hospital of Helsinki, Finland. In 2024, Päivi spent six months as a visiting scholar at the e-Lab to help move the analysis of intracranial EEG data forward. We continue collaborating on the theme of mesio-temporal epilepsy.
Lino Nobili, MD, PhD
University of Genova
Lino is a full Professor of pediatric neuro-psychiatry, a renowned epileptologist, and the head of the PhD program in Neuroscience at the University of Genova. Our collaboration covers the analysis of intracranial EEG to understand the interplay between sleep oscillations and epileptic discharges.
Gabriele Arnulfo, PhD
University of Genova
Gabriele is associate Professor at the department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and system engineering (DIBRIS) of the University of Genova, specialized in signal analysis. We collaborate on analysis of intracranial EEG at large scale.
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