Claudia Clopath is a Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London and research leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. She develops mathematical models to predict synaptic plasticity for both medical applications and the design of human-like machines. Early life and education Clopath studied physics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She remained there for her graduate studies, where she worked alongside Wulfram Gerstner. Together they worked on models of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STPD) that included both the presynaptic and postsynaptic membrane potentials.[1] After earning her PhD she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Nicolas Brunel…

Jocelyne Bloch (born 1971) is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).[2][3] Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002.[4] Her area of expertise is deep brain stimulation and brain repair in relation to movement disorders.[5] In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal cord injury…

Victoria Lye-Hua Chan-Palay (born 9 October 1945) is a Singaporean-born neuroscientist who has worked in the United States and Switzerland.[1][2][3] Early life and education Chan is the second daughter of noted Singaporean swimming coach Dr. Chan Ah Kow.[4][5] Among her four brothers and two sisters is Patricia Chan, who represented Singapore in swimming at the Southeast Asian Games in the 1960s and 1970s.[5][6] As a young woman, Chan excelled at school in science, and herself represented Singapore in international swimming competitions as well.[Note 1] She left Singapore in 1962 with a scholarship to Smith College, from which she graduated in…

Shih-Chii Liu is a professor at the University of Zürich. Her research interests include developing brain-inspired sensors, algorithms, and networks; and their neural electronic equivalents. Education and career Liu pursued a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] and received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Department of Computation and Neural Systems at California Institute of Technology.[2] A year later she joined the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics. A year later, she joined the Institute of Neuroinformatics,[3] University of Zürich and ETH Zürich as a group leader, and became a professor at the University…

Sophie Schwartz is a Swiss neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of Geneva. She studies the neural mechanisms that underpin experience-dependent changes in the human brain. Early life and educationSchwartz is from Switzerland. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Geneva, where she majored in biology.[1] She moved to Lausanne as a graduate student, working toward a second bachelor’s degree in psychology.[1] She studied dreams through neurophysical investigations at the University of Lausanne.[2] After completing her doctorate, Schwartz joined the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher.[1] CareerSchwartz joined the faculty at the University of…

Isabelle M. Mansuy (born December 5, 1965 in Cornimont, France) is a professor in neuroepigenetics in the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and the Department of Health Science and Technology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. She is known for her work on the mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in relation to childhood trauma.[1][2] Education and career Mansuy studied molecular biology and biotechnology at the University Louis Pasteur and the École Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg.[3] Mansuy went on to earn a PhD at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel[4] then a postdoc at Columbia University, where…

Melanie Greter is a Swiss neuroimmunologist and a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor in the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. Greter explores the ontogeny and function of microglia and border-associated macrophages of the central nervous system to understand how they maintain homeostasis and contribute to brain-related diseases. Early life and education After completing her undergraduate degree, Greter pursued a master’s degree in biology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.[1] She completed her Master’s thesis at the Institute of Neuropathology at the University Hospital Zurich.[1] After her Master’s, Greter decided to stay in academia and pursue…