People at the e-Lab

Maxime Baud – e-Lab group leader

Maxime obtained his MD in Lausanne and his PhD in sleep neuroscience in 2011 from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He completed a residency training in neurology at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship focusing on signal analysis of human intracranial EEG. In addition to his role as the e-Lab group leader, Maxime is an attending epileptologist at the University Hospital of Bern, and staff neurologist at the Wyss Center for neuroengineering. Maxime lives in Bern and loves to ski and hike in the Alps.

Kristina Slabeva – PhD Student

Kristina studied biomedical science in Bern and obtained her master at the e-Lab. She is currently studying the epileptic hippocampus using optogenetics. Kristina loves books.

Grégory Lepeu – MD-PhD Student

Grégory studied medicine at the University of Geneva and is currently studying the interplay between the endocrine system and epilepsy in animal models. Grégory loves to read a book with a good drink.

Marc Grau Leguia – Post-doctoral Fellow

Marc studied physics at the University of Barcelona, obtained his PhD from the COSMOS program (Complex Oscillating Systems: Modeling and Analysis) and applies his modeling and statistical skills to better understand the temporal structure of epilepsy. Marc loves to play football, squash and board games.

Ellen Van Maren – PhD student

Ellen is a biomedical engineer who trained as an undergraduate at ETHZ and joined the e-Lab in November 2019. Her project at e-Lab focuses on the understanding of the cortical excitability using human EEG recordings. Ellen plays tennis and loves going to the mountains.

Cecilia Friedrichs-Maeder – Neurology resident

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). She is currently a neurology resident at Inselspital Bern. Her work concerns the periodicity of interictal epileptic activity and its effect on seizure rate in focal epilepsy. Cecilia loves modern art and enjoys to swim and hike in the mountains.

Timothée Proix, PhD

University of Geneva

Timothée Proix is a senior research associate in computational neuroscience at the University of Geneva. We collaborate on the development of models for seizure risk forecasting.

Christophe Bernard, PhD

Aix-Marseille University

Christophe Bernard is a Professor of Neuroscience and a pioneer in epilepsy research. He is leading the PhysioNet group at the Aix-Marseille University. We collaborate on the analysis of chronic EEG recordings in rodents.

Vikram Rao, MD, PhD

University of California San Francisco

Vikram Rao is an assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCSF. We share chronic EEG recordings in epilepsy patients for analysis and modeling of personalized seizure forecasts.