{"id":167,"date":"2021-12-09T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:26:22","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"tml team 20250929 montreux\" class=\"wp-image-658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-540x405.jpg 540w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2026\/03\/tml_team_20250929_montreux.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left to right: Dr Richard Mospan, (Costa Georgantas), DrSc Jaume Banus Cobo, (Rayan Harfouche), DrSc Jonas Richiardi, (Emilia Farina), James Bardet, DrSc S\u00e9bastien Courvoisier, Alessio Comparini, DrSc Vanessa Siffredi. Not shown: L\u00e9a Schmidt, Vasco Cazzagon, Gon\u00e7alo Canastra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lab members come mainly from technical backgrounds (CS, EE, bioengineering, applied math&#8230;), with a dash of medical and neuroscience profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"team-current\">Current members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Principal Investigator<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>DrSc <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/team\/jonas-richiardi\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"431\">Jonas Richiardi<\/a>, PhD (EPFL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staff Scientists<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>CIBM\/Lundin Imaging data engineer &#8211; James Bardet, MSc (EPFL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CIBM Data Science Initiative officer &#8211; DrSc S\u00e9bastien Courvoisier (UNIGE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Junior Group Leader\/Ambizione Fellow<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>DrSc <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/team\/vanessa-siffredi\/\">Vanessa Siffredi<\/a>, PhD (Univ. Melbourne &amp; Univ. Geneva) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postdoctoral Researchers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>DrSc <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/team\/jaume-banus-cobo\">Jaume Ban\u00f9s Cobo<\/a>, PhD (Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur\/INRIA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PhD Students<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/team\/killian-monnin\">Killian Monin<\/a>, MSc (Uni Bern) &#8211; direction, with Dr Na\u00efk Vietti-Violi and Prof. Clarisse Dromain as co-directors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/team\/lea-schmidt\/\">L\u00e9a Schmidt<\/a>, MSc (EPFL) &#8211; direction, with DrSc Vanessa Siffredi as co-director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alessio Comparini, MSc (U. Bologna) &#8211; direction, with Prof. Clara James as co-director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Richard Mospan, MSc (King&#8217;s College) &#8211; co-direction, with Prof. Patric Hagmann as director and Dr Francesco Puccinelli as co-director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MD Candidates<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasco Cazzagon (UNIL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Master students<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Gon\u00e7alo Canastra (U. Lisbon, Biophysics &amp; Bioengineering MSc student)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"team-positions\">Open Positions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opening for specific projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>none at present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ongoing competitive openings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>MD-PhD (UNIL)<\/strong>: If you&#8217;re the kind of future MD that is keen on data science and AI, we are very happy to support your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/mdphd\/home.html\">MD-PhD application<\/a> if you want to work with us at the intersection of machine learning, genetics, and medicine. See project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/mdphd\/home\/menuinst\/recherche\/host-labs.html\">potential host labs<\/a> at UNIL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MSc (UNIL), MMed (UNIL)<\/strong> projects: we have many projects available in the field of machine learning for healthcare, please reach out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MSc (EPFL)<\/strong>: Semester projects, lab immersions, or master thesis &#8211; we often work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/labs\/lts5\/\">Jean Philippe Thiran&#8217;s lab<\/a>, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/labs\/lts5\/student_projects-html\/\">LTS 5 students project page<\/a>. Depending on the topic of interest we can liaise with other suitable labs such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/miplab.epfl.ch\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/miplab.epfl.ch\/\">Medical Image Processing Lab<\/a> (e.g. functional brain imaging, Graph signal processing&#8230;) or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/labs\/lts4\/\"> LTS 4<\/a> (graph neural networks, cardiac applications&#8230;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MSc\/PhD\/postdoc researchers worldwide<\/strong> that want to come to Switzerland: if you have outstanding ideas and track record in healthcare + ML, you may be eligible for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbfi.admin.ch\/sbfi\/en\/home\/education\/scholarships-and-grants\/swiss-government-excellence-scholarships.html\">Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkswiss.org\/\">ThinkSwiss scholarship<\/a> and we may be willing to support your application &#8211; get in touch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"team-alumni\">Alumni &amp; Former members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DrSc Costa Georgantas (UNIL, PhD student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rayan Harfouche (EPFL, MSc student) &#8211; then PhD student at EPFL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DrSc Xavier Sieber, (UNIL, PhD student)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DrSc Jonathan Rafael Pati\u00f1o-Lopez, PhD (EPFL) &#8211; then senior postdoc at EPFL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Antoine Delaloye (EPFL, Robotics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hannes Gubler (EPFL, Mathematics) &#8211; then Data scientist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantco.com\/\">QuantCo<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Patrick Jeltsch, MMed (Uni Lausanne) &#8211; then assistant physician at CHUV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L\u00e9o Gribinski (University of Lausanne, Medicine) &#8211; then assistant physician at CHUV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Berta C\u00e9spedes (EPFL, Life Sciences) &#8211; then Master student at EPFL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DrSc S\u00e9bastien Tourbier, PhD (Univ. Lausanne) &#8211; then Senior Data Engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acimmune.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.acimmune.com\/\">AC Immune<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Haoxuan Wang (EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manon Dorster (EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering) &#8211; then intern at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens-healthineers.com\/\">Siemens Healthcare<\/a> Switzerland Advanced Clinical Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pierre Ancey (EPFL, Computational Science)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Veronica Ravano (PhD student, UNIL) &#8211; then Research Engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens-healthineers.com\/\">Siemens Healthcare<\/a> Switzerland Advanced Clinical Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DrSc Tommaso Di Noto (PhD student, UNIL) &#8211; then Research Engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens-healthineers.com\/\">Siemens Healthcare<\/a> Switzerland Advanced Clinical Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maxime Poffet (MSc student, EPFL, Robotics) &#8211; then MSc student at EPFL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Antoine Madrona (MSc student, EPFL, Life Science Engineering &amp; Data Science, host lab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/labs\/lts5\/\">LTS5<\/a> @ EPFL) &#8211; then Data Science Intern \/ Data Engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/unit8.com\/\">Unit8<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adrien Jammot (INSA Rouen Normandie, Computer Science and Information technology) &#8211; then exchange MSc student at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntnu.edu\/\">Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DrSc Elda Fischi-Gomez &#8211; then Research Staff Scientist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cibm.ch\">Center for Biomedical Imaging<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nataliia Molchanova (MSc student, EPFL) &#8211; then PhD student at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/unil.ch\/mial\" target=\"_blank\">Medical Image Analysis Lab<\/a>, UNIL &amp; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medgift.hevs.ch\" target=\"_blank\">MedGIFT<\/a>, HES-SO.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guillaume Jordan (MMed student, UNIL) &#8211; then Medicine resident at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuv.ch\">CHUV<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mazen Mahdi (MSc student, EPFL, host lab <a href=\"https:\/\/dlab.epfl.ch\/\">Dlab<\/a> @ EPFL ) &#8211; then Lead Data Scientist at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/daskell.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/daskell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daskell<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"teamlablife\">Lab life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-521\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-521 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-blend\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"lab_life_slideshow\" data-height=\"300\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_521\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_521\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-522 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2023-09-01 16:02:19\" data-filename=\"TML_official_team_pix_202112-700x300.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2021\/12\/TML_official_team_pix_202112-700x300.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-521 slide-522 msDefaultImage\" title=\"TML_official_team_pix_202112\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Winter outing - Geneva by night with pink Jet d'eau<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-523 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2023-09-01 16:02:20\" data-filename=\"20230512_Cret_Berard_radiology_research_green_day-700x300.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2023\/09\/20230512_Cret_Berard_radiology_research_green_day-700x300.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-521 slide-523 msDefaultImage\" title=\"20230512_Cret_Berard_radiology_research_green_day\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Radiology Research Green Day at Cr\u00eat-B\u00e9rard<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-524 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2023-09-01 16:02:20\" data-filename=\"20211202_escapeGame_triptrap-700x300.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/tml\/files\/2023\/08\/20211202_escapeGame_triptrap-700x300.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-521 slide-524 msDefaultImage\" title=\"20211202_escapeGame_triptrap\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Escape Game at Trip Trap Geneva<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; 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