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Pavan P Ramdya

pavan.ramdya@epfl.ch https://ramdya-lab.epfl.ch/

Nationality: USA

EPFL SV BMI UPRAMDYA
AAB 1 05 (Bâtiment AAB)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

EPFL SV IBI-GE
AAB 1 05 (Bâtiment AAB)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Neuroscience Behavior Neuroengineering Synthetic neurobiology

Mission

We use genetics, microscopy, modeling, and quantitative behavioral analysis to understand how the brain works.
https://ramdya-lab.epfl.ch/

Education

PhD

| Neurobiology

2009 – 2009 Harvard University

Awards

Eccellenza Grant Awardee

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

2019

FENS

Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar

2018

HFSP

Career Development Award

2016

Wellcome Trust

Sir Henry Dale Fellowship

2016

UNIL Biology and Medicine

Young Investigator Award in Basic Science

2015

Life Sciences Switzerland

PI of Tomorrow Award

2015

Harvard University

Derek Bok Award for Teaching

2007

Doctoral Fellowship

National Science Foundation USA

2005

National Defense Science and Engineering

Doctoral Fellowship

2005

Selected publications

Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila.

Chen C-L*, Hermans L*, Viswanathan MC, Aymanns F, Unser M, Cammarato A, Dickinson MH, Ramdya P
Published in Nature Communications. 2018 Oct 22; 9(1):4390. in

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits.

Ramdya P, Thandiackal R, Cherney R, Asselborn T, Benton R, Ijspeert AJ, Floreano D.
Published in Nature Communications. 2017 Feb 17;8:14494. in

Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila.

Ramdya P, Lichocki P, Cruchet S, Frisch L, Tse W, Floreano D, Benton R.
Published in Nature. 2015 Mar 12;519(7542):233-6. in

Emergence of binocular functional properties in a monocular neural circuit.

Pavan Ramdya & Florian Engert
Published in Nature Neuroscience, 2008 Sep;11(9):1083-90. in

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Sibo Wang, Victor Alfred Stimpfling, Dominic Dall'Osto, Thomas Ka Chung Lam

Past EPFL PhD Students

Chin-Lin Chen, Laura Joan Hermans, Florian Aymanns, Victor Lobato Rios, Jonas Braun, Pembe Gizem Ozdil, Femke Imreh Hurtak

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Semih Günel

Courses

Controlling behavior in animals and robots

BIOENG-456

Students will acquire an integrative view on biological and artificial algorithms for controlling autonomous behaviors. Students will synthesize and apply this knowledge in oral presentations and computational exercises.