Appointments and promotions of three professors

Sara Gallini, Pavan Ramdya, and Dimitri van de Ville. © 2024 EPFL

Sara Gallini, Pavan Ramdya, and Dimitri van de Ville. © 2024 EPFL

The ETH Board has appointed Dr Sara Gallini to Tenure Track Assistant Professor and promoted Pavan Ramdya (IBI) and Dimitri van de Ville (Neuro-X/STI).

Dr Sarah Gallini
Sara Gallini © 2024 EPFL

Sara Gallini, currently Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Life Sciences in the School of Life Sciences (SV)
Sara Gallini’s research focuses on imaging individual cells in living tissue. This intravital, long-term imaging approach to cancer cell behavior is novel and complementary to those currently employed in EPFL and indeed in the Lemanic area. She combines this imaging with single-cell genomics to characterize individual cells in cancerous tissue. Her novel in vivo approach is an ideal complement to the methods currently applied at EPFL. At the same time, the field of single-cell genomics, which is strongly represented in the School, provides the perfect scientific environment for her research project.

Pavan Ramdya © 2024 EPFL

Professor Pavan Ramdya, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at EPFL, as Associate Professor of Life Sciences in the School of Life Sciences (SV - IBI)
Pavan Ramdya studies neural activity in walking flies, and relating this activity to actual leg movements. He develops new instruments for the sophisticated simultaneous recording of neural activities and animal behaviour. In order to investigate how flies move and how they decide which actions to take, he combines neuroscience methods and approaches with robotics and engineering. His work has helped to address important questions in the field of neuroscience. He is a highly regarded researcher and colleague, and also a very popular lecturer.

Dimitri Van De Ville © 2024 EPFL

Professor Dimitri Van De Ville, currently Associate Professor at EPFL, as Full Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Engineering (STI - Neuro-X)
Dimitri Van De Ville is an internationally leading scientist in the fields of medical imaging, signal processing, neuroimaging of the brain and spinal cord, and functional connectivity. At EPFL, he leads the Medical Image Processing Laboratory (MIPLAB). He is strongly committed to high-quality teaching and leads the Neuro-X section. He is a Fellow of IEEE and EURASIP for his contributions to computational brain imaging. Through his activities, he contributes to strengthening EPFL’s innovative research in the field of neuroscience and medical image processing.