2014 - present Full Professor. Head of the Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
2010 - 2013 Associate Professor. Head of the Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
2003 - 2009 Assistant Professor. Head of the Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
1999 - 2003 Post Doctoral Research Fellow. Advisor Prof Bert Sakmann, Department of Cell Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
1996 - 1998 Post Doctoral Research Fellow. Advisor Prof Roger Nicoll, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
1992 - 1996 Doctoral Student. Advisor Prof Sir Michael Berridge, The Babraham Institute, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, England, UK
1991 Research Assistant. Advisor Prof Yasunobo Okada, Department of Physiology, Kyoto University, Japan
1990 Research Assistant. Advisor Prof Ole Petersen, The Physiological Laboratory, University of Liverpool, England, UK
Fields of Scholarship
Neuroscience
Cellular neurophysiology
Sensory perception
Motor control
Sensorimotor integration
Learning
Honours and Awards
2012 European Research Council Advanced Grant (2012-2017) awarded to explore the neural circuits underlying sensorimotor integration
2009 HFSP Program Grant (2009-2012) with Mathew Diamond (SISSA), Edward Callaway (Salk) and Carlos Brody (Princeton)
2004 Leenaards Prize (2004) with Prof. Christian Lüscher (University of Geneva)