Our Team
We are a diverse group of researchers working at the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, and computer vision.
Principal Investigator
Alexander Mathis
Assistant Professor
Alexander Mathis is an Assistant Professor at EPFL. He holds a Diplom in Mathematics and a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (with Prof. Andreas Herz). He was a postdoc with Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy at Harvard University and Prof. Matthias Bethge at Tuebingen AI.
PhD Students
Andy Bonnetto
PhD Student
Measuring naturalistic human behavior and linking it to brain function
Merkourios Simos
PhD Student
Proprioception, sensorimotor control and learning
Michał Grudzień
PhD Student
Hierarchical representation learning for behavior & neural data
Chengkun Li
PhD Student
Reinforcement learning
Bianca Ziliotto
PhD Student
Proprioception and sensorimotor control
Matea Tashkovska
PhD Student
Quantifying behavior
Master Students
Arash Sal Moslehian
Master Student
Sensorimotor control and behavior analysis
Research Staff
Jaap de Ruyter van Steveninck
Software Engineer
All things software, including DeepLabCut
Also works in M.W. Mathis lab
Lab Administration
Pauline Stehli
Lab Administration
Lab Alumni
Maxim Pavliv
Research: All things software, including DeepLabCut
Also works in M.W. Mathis lab
Lucas Stoffl
Research: Behavioral analysis
Graduated Spring 2025
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Weill
Research: Modeling the sensorimotor pathway
Graduated Spring 2025
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford
Research: Reinforcement learning for motor control
Graduated Spring 2025
Now: Flexion Robotics
Adriana Perez Rotondo
Research: Modeling and theory for sensorimotor circuits
Group Photos
Alberto's Graduation 2025
Alberto's graduation ceremony in 2025
Lab Retreat 2025
Joint lab retreat with Mackenzie’s team
Mini golf
Minigolf outing in 2023