Léa Schmidt

I joined the Translational Machine Learning Lab as a PhD student in August 2023. My research focuses on the role of the corpus callosum and its inter-hemispheric communication in cognitive development in children with typical and atypical corpus callosum development.

Prior to this, I obtained my BSc and MSc in Life Science Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Throughout my academic path, I had the chance to go one year abroad, at the Lund Tekniska Högskola (LTH) to do my last bachelor’s year in Biomedical Engineering. Thanks to this, I knew that I wanted to go further in the biomedical field. I did my master’s thesis at the Centre de médecine intégrative et complementaire (CEMIC) at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), where I explored the brain mechanism of reward and relief in patients suffering from chronic neuropathic pain, using fMRI.