Ayberk Ozkirli receives SSN Travel Fellowship
Ayberk has received the Travel Fellowship from the Swiss Society for Neuroscience to present his latest research at this year’s Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, and to connect with fellow researchers in the field 👁️ 🧠! In this work, Ayberk compares EEG and MEG responses to frequency-tagged video stimuli to determine which neuroimaging modality provides (…)
Multi-centric DONAU project finishes with public workshop
Maria Giulia Preti met the partners of our multi-centric project DONAU (DIGITAL OUTCOMES AND NEURAL ASSESSMENT UNIFICATION) within the final workshop on April 21, open to public, “Exploring Cognitive Decline with The DONAU Project”, organized at University of Caen-Normandy, France. DONAU was a 2 years project investigating early brain connectivity biomarkers of cognitive decline and involved partners (…)
MIP:Lab at IEEE ISBI 2026
MIP:Lab enjoyed the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 edition in London, UK! Lab members Francesca Saviola and Ekansh Sareen were selected for oral presentations in the session entitled “How Brain Dynamics Relate to Behavior” . Francesca gave a presentation entitled “Human Brain Excitation-Inhibition Balance Through fMRI Dynamics: Estimators and in-Vivo Validation” and (…)
Francesca and Ekansh at NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
On April 9, Francesca Saviola and Ekansh Sareen gave invited presentations in the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London in the Centre for Neuroimaging Seminar Series. Francesca was invited by Prof. Gemma Modinos and Prof. Steven Williams, and gave a presentation entitled “Excitation-Inhibition (…)
Top cited article in Bipolar Disorders
Big congrats to Luigi Saccaro for his article on hippocampal temporal dynamics using the cutting-edge micro-co-activation patterns (uCAPs) approach. The article was recognized as a top-cited article among work published in Bipolar Disorders. L. F. Saccaro, F. Delavari, D. Van De Ville & C. Piguet, “Hippocampal Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Heterogeneity Unveil Vulnerability Markers in (…)
Maria Giulia presents at Network Science Institute
Maria Giulia contribute to the London Seminar Series at Northeastern University on April 8 with a presentation entitled “Network Harmonics of the Brain: A Graph Signal Processing Framework toInvestigate Structure-Function Coupling”.
MIP:Lab rocks along with the SV Band
On Friday March 27, the SV Band was back with its annual live concert! The event was memorable and MIP:Lab members part of the SV Band rocked all along! Kudos to Ayberk and Giulia!
Dimitri at Noosa Brain Workshop
Dimitri attended the Noosa Workshop on Brain Function, Organization & Behavior (February 23-26, Queensland, Australia) and presented the work on “Graph Signal Processing for Functional Neuroimaging: A Perspective on the Brain’s Function-Structure Relationship“. Thanks to the organizers, especially Alex Fornito, for the fantastic organization and amazing line-up of speakers!
Francesca Saviola receives Publication Award 2025 from Swiss Society for Neuroscience
The paper entitled “Disentangling metabolic and neurovascular timescales supporting cognitive processes” (PNAS, Sept 2025), co-first authored by Francesca Saviola and Stefano Tambalo, has won the Publication Award 2025 in Human and Clinical Neuroscience from the Swiss Society for Neuroscience (SSN). Francesca presented the results of her study at the SSN Business Meeting on February 5, (…)
Thomas Bolton delivers first CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar of 2026
On January 27, Dr. Thomas Bolton gave the first CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar of 2026 at Campus Biotech. In his talk entitled “Improving graph signal processing tools for brain/behaviour analyses”, he featured his latest work on graph signal processing.
Maria Giulia Preti at Polictecnico Milano
Maria Giulia lecture a PhD Seminar in Biomedical Engineering entitled “Bridging structure & function in the brain: progress & puzzles” at Politecnico Milano, January 21.
National Day of Mourning in memory of the victims of Crans-Montana
Following the terrible fire in Crans-Montana on January 1, a National Day of Mourning has been declared on Friday January 9, with a minute of silence at 14h00. Our thoughts are with all the families and friends affected.
Ekansh Sareen presents his spinal-cord work at IIIT-D
On December 12, Ekansh Sareen gave an invited presentation “Unveiling Corticospinal Synergy: Innovations in Sensation, Neuromodulation, Mapping” at IIIT-D (Ekansh’s alma mater), invited by professor Anubha Gupta and the Department of Communication & Alumni Affairs, IIITD.
Oh oh oh, look who’s here again!
Secret Santa struck again at MIP:Lab! Wishing you all a delightful Holiday Season!
Welcome to Ms. Maria Benjdya!
Ms. Maria Benjdya has joined MIP:Lab on December 1, 2025 and will coordinate projects on vision neuroscience in collaboration with Dandelion Science Incorporated.
Stanford Spinal Cord Workshop 2025
Many thanks to the organizers (Neuromuscular Insight Lab headed by Prof. Kenneth Weber) for making the 2025 edition of the Spinal Cord Workshop (Nov 19-21) at Stanford University a fantastic success. Dimitri gave a presentation on Resting-State Spinal Cord fMRI featuring MIP:Lab’s work by Nawal Kinany, Ilaria Ricchi, and Ekansh Sareen. Pictures by Prof. Christine (…)
Symposium at SfN 2025
Satu Palva (University of Helsinki) and Dimitri Van De Ville organized the Symposium entitled “Computational approaches to understand emergence of human brain dynamics across spatial, temporal and anatomical scales” at SfN 2025 (Nov 15-19, San Diego). The symposium featured presentations by Stephanie Jones (Brown University) and Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University), as well as the organizers. (…)
Angela Renton at the Mechanistic Basis of Foraging Conference
Angela Renton attended the Mechanistic Basis of Foraging Conference in Birmingham (November 3-5). She presented a poster on her computational modelling work showing that perceptual decision-making relies more strongly upon the statistical regularities defining hidden environmental states during lapses in sustained attention. The multidisciplinary conference showcased work from fields spanning computational, behavioural, and cognitive neuroscience, (…)
MIP:Lab shines at EDEE Scientific Day
The Annual EDEE Scientific Day organized by the EDEE student committee was held on October 22, 2025. It featured talks by EDEE alumni, but also a PhD student contest with 3-minute presentations of their work, evaluated similar to MT180. From MIP:Lab, Fabrice Guibert and Alexandre Cionca participated… and the winners are: Big congrats to all! (…)
Traveling Spines visit Campus Biotech
On September 27, our lab, coordinated by Francesca Saviola and Ilaria Ricchi, participated as one of the ten worldwide sites in the Traveling Spine Initiative—and one of only two in Switzerland (together with the Zurich site – Balgrist led by Maryam Seif). As part of this collaborative effort, we successfully acquired a full protocol for quantitative and functional (…)
How the brain balances stability and flexibility during mental tasks
What happens in the brain when we focus, remember, or make decisions? A new study led by the University of Trento’s Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) and powered by EPFL-bord methodology to reveal real-time brain dynamics, brings fresh insight into this question, showing for the first time how the brain dynamically balances stability and flexibility (…)
Ilaria Ricchi successfully defended her PhD
On September 8, Ilaria Ricchi, PhD student at the EPFL co-supervised by Dr. Nawal Kinany, successfully defended her PhD on developing new methods for spinal cord fMRI. The PhD committee was presided over by Prof. Silvestro Micera, external committee members were Prof. Anne Kavounoudias (Aix-Marseille Université) and Dr. Maryam Seif (University of Zürich), and the (…)
Francesca Saviola at the Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium
Francesca presented her work “Disentangling metabolic and neurovascular timescales supporting cognitive processes” at the Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium II in Bangor Gwynedd. Stay tuned for the journal version!
Welcome to Dr. Armando Romani!
Dr. Armando Romani has joined MIP:Lab on September 1, 2025, and will work at the intersection of neuroimaging and machine learning.
Community detection on directed networks
In a new article published in PNAS, Alex Cionca revisits the concept of modularity on directed graphs, extending it to bimodularity that recognizes sending and associated receiving communities. An elegant SVD-based algorithm allows to recover these “bicommunities” in an efficient and complete way. Big congrats to Alex and Michael Chan for pulling this off! A. (…)
Sélima Zahar successfully defended her PhD
On August 22, Sélima Zahar, PhD student at the EPFL and jointly with Nestlé Research, where she is supervised by Julie Hudry-Labbe, successfully defended her PhD on developing and applying fNIRS for nutrition neuroscience. The PhD committee was presided over by Prof. Mahsa Shoaran, external committee members were Prof. Ian Macdonald (University of Nottingham) and (…)
E3 and SRP internships during Summer 2025
While some of us are taking a break for the Summer, Alireza, Matilde, and Anuj have joined MIP:Lab for internships organized by the prestigious EPFL E3 and SRP programs. They will spend a few months in the lab to conduct a scientific project while experiencing life in Switzerland. It’s a pleasure to have you among (…)
Fabrice Guibert presents at MEG-UK 2025
Fabrice Guibert presented his latest work on “Multi-scale Brain Dynamics in M/EEG with Time-Delay Embedded Hidden Markov Models” in collaboration with Prof. Daphné Bavelier (UNIGE), Prof. Jeroen Van Schependom and Dr. Chiara Rossi (VUB, Belgium), at the latest edition of MEG-UK 2025.
Florian David presents at IEEE EMBC 2025
Florian David has presented his innovative work that started with a semester project in 2024, supervised by Michael Chan, at the 47th IEEE EMBC 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark, on using deep neural networks for encoding/decoding of fMRI brain activity related to video. The full paper is already available as a preprint. Congrats Florian!
Ekansh Sareen presents at Nestle Research Centre
As part of the EPFL PhD Excellence Program, a group of 21 PhD students among which Ekansh Sareen visited the Nestle Research Centre in Lausanne. Ekansh is part of the 2023 cohort of this program. Ilaria Ricchi, another PhD student in the lab, is part of the 2022 cohort!
Ekansh and Francesca visit NeuroRecovery Research Hub and NeuRa Imaging
On July 4, Ekansh Sareen gave an invited presentation “Corticospinal Interactions: Insights from Neuromodulation, VR-driven Multisensory Integration, and Improved fMRI Mapping” at NeuroRecovery Research Hub led by Professor Sylvia Gustin at the University of New South Wales in Australia.At the same day, Francesca Saviola gave an invited presentation “Hidden highways of the Central Nervous System: (…)
Welcome to Dr. Ayberk Ozkirli!
Dr. Ayberk Ozkirli has joined MIP:Lab on July 1, 2025 and will work on vision neuroscience in collaboration with Dandelion Science Incorporated.
MIP:Lab at OHBM 2025
A large delegation of the MIP:Lab has attended OHBM 2025 at Brisbane, Australia, and presented their latest work! Also, lab members who recently joined, Francesca Saviola and Karolis Degustis presented their previous work:
Maria Giulia Preti at Brain Connectivity Workshop
Maria Giulia presents her latest work, “Bridging Structure and Function in the Brain: Progress and Puzzles,” at the Brain Connectivity Workshop Synergetics on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), June 20-22, 2025.
Luigi Saccaro wins Alex F. Müller Prize for Clinical Pathophysiology
Luigi Saccaro has received the Alex F. Müller Prize for Clinical Pathophysiology for his research on neuroimaging markers of vulnerability to bipolar disorder. Congrats! L. Saccaro, F. Delavari, D. Van De Ville. C. Piguet, “Hippocampal temporal dynamics and spatial heterogeneity unveil vulnerability markers in the offspring of bipolar patients,” Bipolar Disorders, vol. 27, issue 1, (…)
MRI Research Day features spinal cord fMRI combined with TMS
On the MRI Research Day (June 3, 2025), Ekansh Sareen and Rebecca Jones (Hummel Lab) presented their work on “Enhancing NIBS-induced corticospinal excitability and mapping spinal cord fMRI activation“.
Let there be phase
In a recent paper entitled “Hilbert Transform on Graphs: Let There Be Phase” published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Michael Chan proposes a new twist to enable the Hilbert transform for graphs. The scheme provides a promising way to analyze signals on domains that can be characterized by directed graphs. The graph analytical signal reveals (…)
MIP:Lab at ICASSP 2025
Big congrats to the organizers of the ICASSP at Hyderabad, April 6-11, for a successful 50th edition of the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Dimitri Van De Ville gave the invited talk entitled “Brain Networks & Graph Signal Processing: A Perfect Fit” at the Neuro Data Analytics Workshop. See you next year (…)
Welcome to Dr. J. Karolis Degutis!
Dr. J. Karolis Degutis has joined MIP:Lab on March 1, 2025 and will work on ultra-high field MRI (7T) with a focus on exploiting laminar resolution, in particular.
MIP:Lab releases official choreography
Under the motto mens sana in corpore sano, MIP:Lab has released its official choreography 2025! Motor control at its best!
Welcome to Dr. Debajyoti Sengupta!
Dr. Deb(ajyoti) Sengupta has joined MIP:Lab on January 1, 2025 and will work on machine learning applications for vision neuroscience in collaboration with Dandelion Science Incorporated.
Aïda Fall successfully defended her PhD
On January 21, Aïda Fall, PhD student at the UNIGE supervised by Paul Unschuld, Maria Giulia Preti, and Dimitri Van De Ville, successfully defended her PhD on genetic risk and brain functional connectivity in Alzheimer’s disease. The public PhD defense is planned on Monday February 10, 16h, at Campus Biotech. Also see her LinkedIn post.
MIPLAB wishes you a joyful holiday season
Spatiotemporal mosaic of brain states
In a new commentary piece published in Imaging Neuroscience, Dimitri and Raphaël discuss the relevance, challenges, and most promising avenues of dynamic functional connectivity approaches.
Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting 2025 Deadline Approaching!
Registration and abstract deadline for ABIM 2025 is December 1, 2024. Don’t miss this fantastic edition that will take place January 12-16, 2025 in Champéry, Switzerland! Keynote speakers include Charan Ranganath, Federico De Martino, Martin Hebart, Carmen Morawetz, Philip Kragel, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Alex Clarke, Gregor Thut, Michelle Hampson.
Maria Giulia Preti at Statistical Physics of Cognition Workshop
Maria Giulia is presenting her latest work on graph signal processing for quantifying function-structure relationships at the Statistical Physics of Cognition Workshop held on November 25-26, 2024, at the Institute of Physics, London.
CIBM celebrates 20th anniversary!
On November 7, 2024, the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging had its Annual Symposium 2024 that marked its 20th Anniversary. The symposium offered a full day of dynamic discussions, groundbreaking presentations, and interactive sessions, celebrating two decades of excellence and innovation in biomedical imaging. Keynote speakers included Peter Bandettini and Denis Le Bihan.
Maria Giulia Preti at BrainModes 2024
Maria Giulia Preti is presenting the latest work on graph signal processing for neuroimaging to quantify structure-function relationships at BrainModes 2024 that takes place in Bilbao, November 18-21.
Mi Xue Tan successfully defended her PhD
On November 13, Mi Xue Tan, PhD student at the UNIGE supervised by Patrik Vuilleumier, Joana Santos Leitao, and Dimitri Van De Ville, successfully defended her PhD entitled “Dissecting Componential Emotion Representations Through a Video Game Paradigm”. The public PhD defense is planned on Wednesday December 18, 14h, at Campus Biotech.
New website launched!
MIP:Lab’s new website has been launched on November 18, 2024.