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Life sciences engineer at EPFL, training toward neurosurgery and neurotechnology.
Neurotech × Medicine
The animal is Bruno the bear. My name is Bruno, and a bear is what you get when you say it out loud often enough.
The brain in its head represents the organ I want to spend my life on. I do not know yet whether that means studying it, building for it, or operating on it.
I meant to become an anthropologist. Human imagination and intelligence fascinated me, so I went looking for them in politics, then in psychology, and ran into the same dissatisfaction each time. Those fields study human relationships well. But personality is contingent and culture-dependent, and I wanted something underneath it: a general model of how the brain works. That is what pointed me at neuroscience.
Medicine arrived from the other direction. During a hematology internship at Semmelweis University Hospital in Budapest, I got my first real look at a clinic from the inside. I left convinced there was still a lot to unlock in how diseases are detected, and in how the brain could be interfaced with technology. That is why I chose life sciences engineering over medical school. I wanted to understand both worlds deeply enough to connect them.
The question I keep coming back to is what shapes the way humans think, decide and change. It has taken me from EPFL's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, to neurotech at Roceso Technologies in Singapore, and on to a medical engineering exchange at KTH Stockholm and the Karolinska Institute.
Laidlaw research internship at EPFL's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience. I built the online experiment testing whether the sense of agency, the feeling of controlling your own actions, strengthens episodic memory, and added confidence ratings to the recognition protocol.
Research reportR&D and clinical operations internship at Roceso Technologies, Singapore. Designed rehabilitation games for a hand-tracking device paired with a soft-robotic glove, grounded in agency and memory neuroscience, to help stroke patients recover.
Internship portfolioLed the deconfounding pipeline in a clinical AI pilot applying DINOv2 visual embeddings to 3,054 psychiatric patient artworks from Bern University Hospital. Text inscription explained roughly 10 times more visual variance than colour or figure content, and three expressive clusters overlapped with diagnoses.
The records date from the beginning of the 20th century, and so do the diagnoses. Running the same pipeline on art made by recent patients, with present-day diagnoses, is the validation this result still needs.
Challenge Team Leader for Europe's first student-led sustainability forum of its kind. Over 11 months I led the challenge design and the selection of 8 finalist teams from 4 countries, plus a 7-member jury, closing with an international final at EPFL.
Read the recapAn empirical study of Hopfield networks as associative memory, comparing Hebbian and Storkey learning rules, storage capacity and robustness to noise. Awarded top recognition in EPFL's BIO-210 programming competition, a team of three among roughly 180 participants.
A dynamic ecosystem simulation in C++ with SFML. Animals and plants in a 2D toroidal world with reproduction, predation, gestation and perception, built with polymorphism, inheritance and design patterns.
View on GitHub“What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?” Ludwig Wittgenstein, epigraph of my LNCO research report
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Coursework spanning cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, signal processing, numerical analysis, machine learning and biostatistics. Running average 5.3/6 (as of Sept 2026).
Full-year exchange in Stockholm focused on medical engineering, machine learning for health, neuroscience and biomedical signal processing.
Ethical leadership programme delivered by the University of Oxford as part of the Laidlaw Scholarship, developing ethical, self-aware and values-driven leadership through reflective practice.
Valedictorian with highest honours, 19.24/20, mention très bien avec les félicitations du jury. Student council representative and eco-delegate, plus two years of MATh.en.JEANS research.
Roceso Technologies, Laidlaw Leadership-in-Action
Six weeks in neurorehabilitation robotics under CEO Jane Wang. Assembled EsoGLOVE control boxes end to end against ISO 13485 work instructions, from wiring and PCBA mounting to firmware flashing and functional test. Designed a 4-game rehabilitation portfolio for CygniSENSE Motion built on sense-of-agency and memory-recall mechanisms, benchmarked against Gloreha, Neofect and Amadeo, and scoped the requirements for individuated-finger EMG sensing on EsoGLOVE.
On the clinical side, assisted with stroke patient visits and presented the case for memory-based rehabilitation games at Stroke Support Station. Analysed 467 patient leg measurements to propose new sizing for Viely compression stockings, and ran Viely's operations end to end for three weeks.
Internship portfolioEPFL Sustainable Innovation Challenge
Eleven months designing the challenge and running selection for Europe's first student-led sustainability forum of its kind. Narrowed the applications to 8 finalist teams from 4 countries, Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and recruited a 7-member jury from EPFL, UNIL, Alpiq, OIKEN, Resilio and E4S. Two days of pitches and workshops at EPFL, closing with a top three.
Read the recapLNCO, Neuro-X Institute, EPFL, Laidlaw Scholar
Eight weeks full-time on the EPFL Biotech Campus, on the link between sense of agency and episodic memory. Designed, programmed and deployed the online experiment in TypeScript: a 120-image encoding session run in 10 blocks of 12, a 180-image recognition session with 60 new items, and four retention groups at 1, 3, 5 and 24 hours, sized for a 200-participant sample. Added the per-trial confidence ratings the previous protocol did not have.
Research reportEPFL, BIO-110
Three hours a week of exercise sessions for Prof. Bruno Correia's BIO-110. Wrote 2 exercise sheets, gave 2 revision lectures, and designed the semester's closing lecture on amino-acid structure, sequencing and chain synthesis from scratch.
EPFL, Life Sciences Engineering
Elected for the 200-student first-year cohort, then for the 140-student second year. Collected feedback weekly by poll and direct input, which fed into changes in course organisation and student support.
Semmelweis University Hospital
50+ hours in the Hematology Department under Prof. Péter Farkas: measuring blood pressure and oxygen saturation, determining blood types, and sitting close to decisions like how to prioritise transfusions when supply does not meet demand.
Team of three selected among roughly 180 participants, distinguished for computational efficiency, testing and documentation.
Overall average 19.24/20, high-school valedictorian.
Member of the Commission of Student Section Representatives.
Human and Social Sciences Courses Teaching Commission.
Governing Board and Conseil de Vie Lycéenne, and eco-delegate on the Sustainable Development Committee.
I meant to become an anthropologist. How that turned into life sciences engineering, and why it was never really a choice.
Read May 2026 · LausanneEleven months of preparation, eight finalist teams from four countries, and two days that made all of it worth it.
Read September 2025 · GenevaEight weeks at EPFL's LNCO building the experiment, what the earlier data shows, and why agency might matter for memory in the clinic.
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