Team

The CBIO brings together a multidisciplinary team at the interface between mathematics, computer science, biology, and medicine. It includes permanent researchers, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, research engineers, and support staff. This diversity of profiles enables the team to tackle the complex scientific challenges associated with large-scale biological data analysis.

Faculty

  • Thomas Walter Director of CBIO, Professor. Specialist in computer vision applied to biomedical image analysis.
  • Catherine Neto — Assistante administrative
  • Chloé-Agathe AzencottProfessor. Expertise in variable selection in multi-omic data, statistical learning.
  • Véronique StovenProfessor. Structural bioinformatics, protein-ligand interactions, docking, and AI for drug design.
  • Florian MassipResearch Fellow. Modeling genomic evolution, studying mechanisms related to human diseases.
  • Vincent MalletResearch Fellow. Geometric deep learning applied to protein and RNA structure.
  • Éloïse BersonJunior Professor (Chair). Multimodal deep learning in neuroscience, neurodegenerative diseases, and clinical data.

PhD candidates

  • Gwenn Guichaoua
  • Julie Cartier
  • Paul Etheimer
  • Alice Blondel
  • Guillaume Balezo
  • Victor Laigle
  • Raphaël Bourgade
  • Wissam Karroucha

 

Interns

  • Anaëlle Hulbert

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Lily Monnier
  • Nicolas Portal
  • Ikram Mahmoudi
  • Ekaterina Antonenko
  • Giann Karlo Aguirre-Samboní
  • Matthieu Blons

Alumni

Around 100 researchers, doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, engineers, and interns have contributed to CBIO projects since its creation. Here is a selection of former members:

Former doctoral students (PhD)

  • Thomas Bonte (2022–2025)
  • Thomas Defard (2021–2025)
  • Daniel Zyss (2020–2024)
  • Ndèye Maguette Mbaye (2019–2024)
  • Philippe Pinel (2021–2024)
  • Matthieu Najm (2019–2023)
  • Tristan Lazard (2019–2023)
  • Mélanie Lubrano (2020–2023)
  • Élise Dumas (2019–2022)
  • Vincent Mallet (2019–2022)
  • Arthur Imbert (2019–2022)
  • Asma Nouira (2019–2022)
  • Marc Michel (2019–2022)
  • Matthieu Cornet (2020–2022)
  • Romain Ménégaux (2017–2021)
  • Joseph Boyd, Lotfi Slim, Judith Abecassis, Héctor Climente-González (2016–2020)
  • Peter Naylor, Benoit Playe, Beyrem Khalfaoui (2015–2019)
  • Marine Le Morvan (2015–2018)
  • Yunlong Jiao, Victor Bellon (2013–2017)
  • Nelle Varoquaux, Alice Schoenauer Sebag, Erwan Scornet, Kevin Vervier, Matahi Moarii (2011–2015)
  • Pierre Chiche, Edouard Pauwels (2010–2013)
  • Toby Dylan Hocking (2009–2012)
  • Fantine Mordelet (2007–2010)
  • Brice Hoffmann (2007–2011)
  • Martial Hue (2004–2011)
  • Franck Rapaport (2004–2008)
  • Pierre Mahé, Joannes Vermorel (2003–2006)
  • Marco Cuturi (2002–2005)
  • Laurent Jacob, Mikhail Zaslavskiy (2006–2009)

Former Post-docs

  • Marvin Lerousseau (2022–2024)
  • Aurélie Beaufrère, Gwenaëlle Lemoine (2022–2023)
  • Adeline Fermanian, Anne Jouinot (2020–2022)
  • Vivien Goepp (2020–2021)
  • Antoine Récanati (2018–2020)
  • Nino Shervashidze (2014–2017)
  • Svetlana Gribkova (2014–2016)
  • Emile Richard (2012–2013)
  • Xiwei Zhang, Jean-Louis Plouhinec (2014–2015)
  • Azadeh Khaleghi, Olivier Collier (2013–2015)
  • Kevin Bleakley (2008–2010)
  • Philippe Rouillier (2008–2009)
  • Karen Willbrand (2004–2005)

Former engineers, assistants, and associate researchers

  • Julian Ostermaier (Research Engineer, 2024)
  • Isabelle Schmitt (Administrative Manager, 2006–2018)
  • Jean-Philippe Vert (former permanent member, associate researcher)

Former interns and visitors

Many students have contributed to the life of the center over the years, including:

  • Johanna Lagoas, Jérémy Cohen, Paul Gagna, Florine Galois, Timothé Schmidt, Mounir Messaoudi, Dhruv Shidhaye, Axel Prévot, Camille Lebrun, Simon Gutwein, Sophia Chirrane, Chaimae Lahrairi, Thibaud Martinez, Samyadeep Basu, Jean-Daniel Granet, Denis Samuylov, Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, Yang Zhao, Omar Dhobb, Khalid Jebbari, Sayaka Mizutani, Yosuke Nishimura, Warith Harchaoui…
    and many more.
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