CIBM - Key Persons
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- Member of the CIBM Strategy Committee
- CHUV Head of Medical Radiology
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- EPFL Associate Vice President Research
Antonia Kaiser finished her Bachelors Degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, Germany and her Masters Degree with tthe program Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam, with a specialization in Cognitive Neuroscience. Antonia continued in a PhD position at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) under the supervision of Prof. dr. Liesbeth Reneman, Prof. dr. Paul J. Lucassen, Dr. Anouk Schrantee, and dr. Marco Bottelier, she started her PhD on the potential influences of emotion dysregulation and medication in ADHD and exercise in healthy volunteers on the brain, measured with comprehensive structural and functional MRI methods. In September 2021, Antonia started working part-time researcher on a collaborative project between the department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC and VUmc, applying deep neural networks in order to decontaminate low signal-to-noise ratio MR spectroscopy data. At the same time, she started working as a part-time lecturer for the Bachelor's Program Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam, teaching a wide range of topics from Philosophy to Neurophysiology. In January 2023 Antonia successfully defended her PhD thesis: "Challenging the Brain: Insights from comprehensive structural & functional MRI studies". In February 2023 Antonia started working as a postdoctoral-researcher at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) on the project: "Advancing magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Towards a sensitive tool for targeting neurometabolic alterations in psychiatric disorders" with PI Lijing Xin.
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- MRI Operational Manager, PET Operational Manager, Research Staff Scientist
- Research Staff Scientist
As of September 2021, Bernard Lanz is a Research Staff Scientist and the Operational Manager for the 14.1T MRI and the small-animal PET scanners at the CIBM MRI EPFL Animal Imaging and Technology Section. His expertise and research interests are in dynamic MRS (1H, 13C, 31P) and quantitative FDG-PET, metabolic models of metabolism, with recent extensions for DNP and 2H MRS(I) biochemical interpretations.
Bernard Lanz obtained his Master of Science degree in physics at EPFL in 2007, with an orientation in statistical physics, solid state physics and biophysics. His master project was on Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) applied to biophysics at the Institute of Physics of Complex Matter (IPMC), under the supervision of Prof. Davor Pavuna. In 2012, he obtained his PhD in physics on "Mathematical modeling of brain energy metabolism, measured with PET and MRS in rodents" under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Gruetter from the Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging (LIFMET) at EPFL.
After which he pursued his postdoc, where he spent time to exploit the enhanced sensitivity of the available 14.1T magnet to further push dynamic 13C MRS for studies in mice and animal models of brain diseases, including a model of glioblastoma, as well as to develop FDG-PET for quantitative mapping of the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose at LIFMET, EPFL, and with partner institutions of the CIBM.
In 2014, he joined the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre in Nottingham in the United Kingdom in the framework of a large collaborative MRC project on schizophrenia, where he was particularly involved in measuring alterations of brain oxidative metabolism in the anterior cingulate cortex of schizophrenic patients, developing and interpreting dynamic 13C MRS at 7T and 3T, in collaboration with the teams in Manchester and Cardiff. During this 4-years stay, he was also involved in other human MRS studies, including fMRS, 1H MRS and 13C MRS in liver. This led him to obtain an honorary assistant professorship at the School of Medicine of the University of Nottingham.
Moving back to Switzerland in 2018, he pursued his research on quantitative metabolic imaging for human and rodent studies at LIFMET, EPFL.
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head, CIBM EEG HUG - UNIGE Clinical and Translational Neuroimaging Section
Primary scientific interest is the spatio-temporal mechanisms underlying brain function and dysfunction and the immediate translation of these findings to
clinical applications. Focuses on the use and continued development of EEG as a brain imaging technique in fundamental, clinical, and applied research and its integration in combined multimodal imaging approaches. Maintains facilities in both Geneva and Lausanne that include: state-of-the-art high- density EEG and TMS systems, as well as, stimulus delivery, psychophysics, and eye-tracking/pupillometry hardware. Develops signal processing tools, including the software Cartool and additional toolboxes. Supports an infrastructure for EEG recordings in rodents.
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Ad Interim Head, CIBM MRI EPFL Animal Imaging & Technology Section, Head, CIBM SP EPFL - UNIGE Network Analysis & Functional MRI Section
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- Member of the CIBM Strategy Committee
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head, CIBM MRI HUG - UNIGE Clinical MR Imaging Section
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- HUG Head of Cardiovascular Radiology
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head, CIBM SP CHUV - EPFL Computational Medical Imaging & Machine Learning Section
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head of the CIBM MRI CHUV - UNIL Translational MR Imaging Section
- Head, CIBM MRI CHUV - UNIL Translational MR Imaging Section
Matthias Stuber, PhD, is Head of the CIBM MRI CHUV-UNIL Translational MR Imaging Section.
He is a Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA , and an Invited Chair at Liryc, Bordeaux, France . He studied electrical engineering at the ETH in Zurich where he also obtained his PhD on cardiac MRI in 1997. From 1997-2002 he worked at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, United States, both as a clinical scientist for Philips Medical Systems and a Faculty at Harvard Medical School. From 2002-2009, he directed a research team as an NIH-funded principal investigator at Johns Hopkins University Medical School where he advanced to Full Professor and was awarded tenure. In summer 2009, he returned to his native Switzerland. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed original articles. Prof. Stuber has received many awards for his research including a "Fellow Award" of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance (ISMRM) at the 2010 annual meeting of the society in Stockholm, Sweden. He served as an elected board member of the ISMRM from 2013-2016. He is past President of the Society for Magnetic Resonance Angiograpy (SMRA, formerly MRA Club ) that held its annual meeting in 2014 in Rome, Italy. He is also a Fellow and the Immediate Past President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR ).
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head, CIBM SP CHUV - UNIL Computational Neuroanatomy & Fetal Imaging Section
Meritxell Bach Cuadra received the MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 1998, the PhD degree from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003 and was postdoctoral fellow in the Signal Processing Laboratory till 2005. She then joined the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging as research staff scientist in the Signal Processing Core at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and was a lecturer at the School of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne (UNIL). In March 2011 she became a Senior Lecturer & has been a Privat Docent since 2018 where she teaches and leads research activities in the Medical Image Analysis Laboratory (MIAL) , UNIL hosted in the CHUV Radiology Department.
Since 2020 Meritxell Bach Cuadra is head of the CIBM Signal Processing CHUV-UNIL Computational Neuroanatomy & Fetal Imaging Section, link.
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head, CIBM SP EPFL Mathematical Imaging Section
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Head, CIBM MRI UNIGE Cognitive and Affective Neuroimaging Section
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- Executive Director
- Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University
Pina Marziliano obtained her Bachelors of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Masters of Science degree in Computer Science in 1994 and 1996, respectively, from the Université de Montréal, Canada. She completed the pioneering Doctoral School program in the Communications Systems Department at the EPFL, Switzerland in 1997 and obtained her PhD degree in 2001.
Her professional career began as a Senior Research Engineer in a start-up company called Genimedia SA in Lausanne, Switzerland where she developed perceptual quality metrics for multimedia applications.
In 2003, she became an Assistant Professor for the Division of Information Engineering in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore focusing her research in biomedical signal and image processing.
In 2006, she was seconded to NTU's International Relations Office strategized the university international partnerships and conceptualised the Global Partnership Management and Analysis Tool.
Her PhD seminal work on Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation led her to receive the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2006 Best Paper Award co-authored with Martin Vetterli and Thierry Blu, followed by a US patent later acquired by Qualcomm Inc., USA.
In 2012, Pina Marziliano was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Besides pursuing her academic career, she has been actively involved in technology transfer and entrepreneurship co-founding a design company PABensen in 2012 and a biotechnology spin-off BIORITHM in 2014.In 2019, Pina Marziliano was appointed Executive Director of the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, founded by the five partner institutions CHUV, UNIL, EPFL, UNIGE and HUG, located in a 50km radius of the Lemans region in Switzerland. The unique union of reputable academics, researchers and clinicians combined with the capabilities of developing cutting edge technology and housing the latest state-of-the art equipment, is her source of inspiration and drive in leading CIBM, a world renowned Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging.
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Steering Committee
- Division Chair of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at the University Hospitals of Geneva
- Head, CIBM PET HUG - UNIGE Molecular Imaging Section
Prof. Valentina Garibotto is division chair of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at the University Hospitals of Geneva and associate professor at the Geneva University. She trained in Italy and Germany and then developed her clinical, research and teaching activity in Geneva. Her project, mainly funded by the Swiss National Research foundation, the Velux Stiftung, the Schmidheiny and Aetas foundation, investigate molecular imaging, namely to guide diagnosis in neurodegenerative conditions, to discover causative and protecting factors and to support the development of novel therapeutic approaches. She has authored more than 190 peer reviewed articles (H index: 32, Web of Science) in the fields of clinical neuroimaging and nuclear medicine. She is Congress Chair Elected of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Chair of the Neuroimaging group of the Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine and actively involved in a number of European initiatives developing and validating molecular imaging in cognitive disturbances.
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- Member of the CIBM Scientific Advisory Board