News
›› 01/01/2018
Open sourcing of BluePyMM, Blue Brain Python Cell Model Management.
›› 01/01/2018
Started working at ASML, Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
›› 05/12/2017 at 17:00
OSPF Concert, Eglise de Puplinge, Puplinge, Switzerland.
›› 05/11/2017 at 17:00
OSPF Concert, Eglise Notre Dame des Grâces, Lancy, Switzerland.
›› 03/11/2017 at 20:00
OSPF Concert, Salle Frank Martin, Geneva, Switzerland.
›› 11/2017
Release of the Simulation Neuroscience MOOC on the edX platform; I contributed to the development of the exercises.
›› 12-13/09/2017
HBP Young Researchers Event, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.
›› 23/06/2017 at 19:00
OSPF concert, Fête de la Musique, Salle de spectacle de l'Institut International de Lancy, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland.
›› 06-09/06/2017
Human Brain Project Brain Simulation Platform Hackathon, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.
›› 26/04/2017
Member of the 9th edition of the Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes.
›› 09/04/2017 at 17:00
OSPF Concert, Eglise Notre Dame des Grâces, Lancy, Switzerland.
›› 07/04/2017 at 20:00
OSPF Concert, Temple de Coppet, Coppet, Switzerland.
›› 06-10/03/2017
Workshop on Big Data Management Systems in Business and Industrial Applications, Stuttgart, Germany; I'm a member of the program committee.
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›› The header image of this page is made with Brayns, a visualiser for ray-traced rendering of neuronal morphologies, mainly developed by Cyrille Favreau at the Blue Brain Project.
Fix the Leaky Pipeline!
- Fix the leaky pipeline!, a career-building program for women in science
- The REGARD programme annually offers around 20 workshops for young female academics of the next generation and for women professors of the universities of French-speaking Switzerland.
- Gender Equality Activities at the Human Brain Project
Sustainable Scientific Software Development
"Better software, better research"
Highly recommended reading for researchers working with software:
- G. Wilson et al., Best Practices for Scientific Computing, PLoS Biol, 12(1): e1001745, 2014
- Edmund M. Hart et al., Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage, PLoS Comput Biol 12(10): e1005097, 2016
Blue Brain Project
From November 2013 to December 2017, I was a research scientist at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), working for the Blue Brain Project on mesoscale brain synthesis. The Blue Brain Project takes part in the Human Brain Project.
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Blue Brain Project
- Human Brain Project
- Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland
CERN
From November 2010 to October 2013, I worked as a senior CERN fellow on the electromagnets for the new linear accelerator Linac4. In addition, I supported work for the PS Booster Upgrade, the ELENA project and MedAustron.
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Technology Department (TE)
- Magnets, Superconductors and Cryostats (MSC)
- Magnet Normal Conducting (MNC)
- CERN Normal Conducting Magnets
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Until October 2010, I worked at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), where I defended my PhD thesis on the numerical modeling and simulation of grain growth.