Alumni
Previous members
Master Students
PhDs, MD/PhDs and Postdocs
Alex Lederer
Joined as a PhD Student (EDCB 2019-2024)
Senior Data Scientist at CHUV
Short info: Alex completed his PhD in the Computational and Quantitative Biology program, working on deciphering the nature of cell state transitions in single cells using quantitative modeling of temporal dynamics. His work contributed to major advances in RNA velocity methods.
Joined as a PhD Student (EDCB 2019-2024)
Senior Data Scientist at CHUV
Short info: Alex completed his PhD in the Computational and Quantitative Biology program, working on deciphering the nature of cell state transitions in single cells using quantitative modeling of temporal dynamics. His work contributed to major advances in RNA velocity methods.
Halima Hannah Schede
Joined as a PhD Student (EDCB 2020-2025)
Lead Data Scientist at Implexis Ltd, London
Short info: Halima completed her PhD jointly supervised with Prof. D’Angelo, focusing on computational approaches for spatialomics data: construction, integration, and analysis of biomolecular atlases. She developed Tomographer and contributed to the Lipid Brain Atlas.
Joined as a PhD Student (EDCB 2020-2025)
Lead Data Scientist at Implexis Ltd, London
Short info: Halima completed her PhD jointly supervised with Prof. D’Angelo, focusing on computational approaches for spatialomics data: construction, integration, and analysis of biomolecular atlases. She developed Tomographer and contributed to the Lipid Brain Atlas.
Colas Droin
Joined as a Visualization Data Scientist
Programmer at CERN
Short info: Colas after obtaining is PhD in computational and quantitative biology at the EPFL joined my group as a data visualization expert. He worked on the construction of the lipid brain atlas explorer.
Joined as a Visualization Data Scientist
Programmer at CERN
Short info: Colas after obtaining is PhD in computational and quantitative biology at the EPFL joined my group as a data visualization expert. He worked on the construction of the lipid brain atlas explorer.
Zahra Moslehi
Joined as a Postdoc (2020-2022)
Computational Immunologist at University Hospital Erlangen
Short info: With a background in metric learning and representation learning and a PhD in ML, Zahra joined the La Manno lab as a postdoctoral researcher to develop pipelines for the integration of snRNA-seq and snATAC-seq datasets for clustering purposes and to build robust prediction models of transitions between cellular states.
Joined as a Postdoc (2020-2022)
Computational Immunologist at University Hospital Erlangen
Short info: With a background in metric learning and representation learning and a PhD in ML, Zahra joined the La Manno lab as a postdoctoral researcher to develop pipelines for the integration of snRNA-seq and snATAC-seq datasets for clustering purposes and to build robust prediction models of transitions between cellular states.
Christian Schneider
Joined as an MD/PhD student
Currently continuing MD education
Short info: During my research stay at EPFL, I worked on the development of techniques in spatial omics and temporal omics, both in the wet lab and bioinformatic settings. I applied these techniques to study central nervous system development in vertebrates and fruit flies.
Joined as an MD/PhD student
Currently continuing MD education
Short info: During my research stay at EPFL, I worked on the development of techniques in spatial omics and temporal omics, both in the wet lab and bioinformatic settings. I applied these techniques to study central nervous system development in vertebrates and fruit flies.
Irina Khven
Joined as a PhD Student (EDNE 2019-2025)
Postdoc at IOB Basel
Short info: Irina completed her PhD in the Neuroscience program, with her thesis “Fine-grained mapping of neural progenitors subtypes in the embryonic brain unveils context-dependent roles of signalling on cell fate decisions.” Her work established key spatial transcriptomics capabilities in the lab and generated comprehensive datasets on embryonic brain development.
Joined as a PhD Student (EDNE 2019-2025)
Postdoc at IOB Basel
Short info: Irina completed her PhD in the Neuroscience program, with her thesis “Fine-grained mapping of neural progenitors subtypes in the embryonic brain unveils context-dependent roles of signalling on cell fate decisions.” Her work established key spatial transcriptomics capabilities in the lab and generated comprehensive datasets on embryonic brain development.
Leila Alieh
Joined as a Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2024)
Clinical Project and Data Science Manager at Lermed
Short info: Leila joined the La Manno Lab as a postdoctoral researcher (co-advised with Prof. D’Angelo) working on bioinformatics, genetics, and cell biology projects. With expertise in Python, R programming, and deep learning frameworks, she contributed to computational biology research in the lab, including work on spatial lipidomics.
Joined as a Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2024)
Clinical Project and Data Science Manager at Lermed
Short info: Leila joined the La Manno Lab as a postdoctoral researcher (co-advised with Prof. D’Angelo) working on bioinformatics, genetics, and cell biology projects. With expertise in Python, R programming, and deep learning frameworks, she contributed to computational biology research in the lab, including work on spatial lipidomics.
Masters Students
Alexandre Bouillon
Joined as a Masters Thesis Student (2023)
EPFL Life Science Engineering
Short info: Alexandre completed his Master’s thesis in the lab, working on computational biology projects involving spatial transcriptomics analysis.
Joined as a Masters Thesis Student (2023)
EPFL Life Science Engineering
Short info: Alexandre completed his Master’s thesis in the lab, working on computational biology projects involving spatial transcriptomics analysis.
Daniil Bobrovskiy
Joined as a Masters Student (2023-2024)
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
Short info: Daniil developed a Bayesian model for the dynamical analysis of single-cell transcriptomics data in collaboration with the Pinello lab, focusing on transfer learning methods to utilize large single-cell atlases.
Joined as a Masters Student (2023-2024)
EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
Short info: Daniil developed a Bayesian model for the dynamical analysis of single-cell transcriptomics data in collaboration with the Pinello lab, focusing on transfer learning methods to utilize large single-cell atlases.
Ece Asirim
Joined for a Research Project
Currently a Data Analyst Intern | HealthTech
Short info: Ece worked at building a high-resolution atlas of lipid metabolism in adult mouse brain, both in health and disease conditions.
Joined for a Research Project
Currently a Data Analyst Intern | HealthTech
Short info: Ece worked at building a high-resolution atlas of lipid metabolism in adult mouse brain, both in health and disease conditions.
Lisa Dratva
Joined as a Masters Student
PhD Student at Sanger Institute with Sarah Teichmann
Short info: Lisa joined the La Manno Lab for a semester project as part of my Master’s program in Computational Neurosciences. She extracted new information from the single cell atlas of the developmental mouse brain.
Joined as a Masters Student
PhD Student at Sanger Institute with Sarah Teichmann
Short info: Lisa joined the La Manno Lab for a semester project as part of my Master’s program in Computational Neurosciences. She extracted new information from the single cell atlas of the developmental mouse brain.
Yeuk Ling Ricky
Joined as a EPFL Masters thesis student
Short info: Ricky joined MSc in Life Science Engineering at EPFL. During his Master Thesis in the La Manno Lab he worked on building image analysis pipelines for the allignement of HybISS images, dot calling and image quantification.
Joined as a EPFL Masters thesis student
Short info: Ricky joined MSc in Life Science Engineering at EPFL. During his Master Thesis in the La Manno Lab he worked on building image analysis pipelines for the allignement of HybISS images, dot calling and image quantification.
Roger Aylagas Torres
Joined as a Masters thesis student
Short info: Roger is MSc in Advanced Telecommunication also at UPC with the path of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia. During his Master Thesis in the La Manno Lab he worked on building a self-supervised algorithm for the integration of scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data.
Joined as a Masters thesis student
Short info: Roger is MSc in Advanced Telecommunication also at UPC with the path of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia. During his Master Thesis in the La Manno Lab he worked on building a self-supervised algorithm for the integration of scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data.
Mariastella Cascone
Joined as a EPFL’s Summer Research Program intern
PhD Student at University of Pisa
Short info: Mariastella worked on the analysis of spatial transcriptomics data, a non-standard multivariate dataset for which a novel analysis pipeline had to be developed.
Joined as a EPFL’s Summer Research Program intern
PhD Student at University of Pisa
Short info: Mariastella worked on the analysis of spatial transcriptomics data, a non-standard multivariate dataset for which a novel analysis pipeline had to be developed.
Dimitri Lallement
Joined as an visiting Master student
Currently @ ENSIMAG
Short info: Dimitri joined as final-year student in a Master of Computer Science and he was part of an exchange program at EPFL for a semester. Moving from a very different field, he worked on machine learning project and explored possibilities related to new biologically-principled data analysis techniques.
Joined as an visiting Master student
Currently @ ENSIMAG
Short info: Dimitri joined as final-year student in a Master of Computer Science and he was part of an exchange program at EPFL for a semester. Moving from a very different field, he worked on machine learning project and explored possibilities related to new biologically-principled data analysis techniques.
Anurag Ranjak
Joined as an EPFL Master student
Currently @ EPFL - Master student
Short info: Anurag joined the lab with a past in Chemical engineering, switching to biology following his newborn passion. He implemented optimization algorithms to solve problems related to spatial transcriptomics.
Joined as an EPFL Master student
Currently @ EPFL - Master student
Short info: Anurag joined the lab with a past in Chemical engineering, switching to biology following his newborn passion. He implemented optimization algorithms to solve problems related to spatial transcriptomics.
Recent Master Students (2024-2025)
The following students completed semester projects or master theses in the lab:
- Giovanni Nostro - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Lena De Sepibus - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Valentine Casalta - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Theo Lo Giudice - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Paul Marchi - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Misia Botschi - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Carla Baud - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Charlotte Alers - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Cyril Achard - EPFL Life Sciences Engineering
- Mohammadresa Karimi - Visiting Student
- Francesco Pieracciani - Visiting Student
Bachelor Students
Luca Fusar Bassini - Now a PhD student in the lab!
Visiting Professors
Ercument Cicek
Joined during his Sabatical
Currently an Associate Professor at Bilken University
Short info: Ercument is an Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University, who joined for a sabatical in the lab. His lab designs and develops machine learning algorithms for the bioinformatics pipeline to improve our understanding of genetic diseases and disorders.
Joined during his Sabatical
Currently an Associate Professor at Bilken University
Short info: Ercument is an Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University, who joined for a sabatical in the lab. His lab designs and develops machine learning algorithms for the bioinformatics pipeline to improve our understanding of genetic diseases and disorders.