Project Coordination

Dr. Agusti Alentorn

Dr. Agusti Alentorn

Scientific Coordinator

Paris Brain Institute (ICM)

MD, PhD – Physician-scientist leading translational neuro-oncology and multimodal AI initiatives.

Work Package Leaders

Prof. François Ducray

Prof. François Ducray

WP1 Lead – Clinical Neuro-Oncology

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Clinical leader in neuro-oncology, coordinating multicentre studies and enabling high-quality translational workflows.

Prof. Stéphanie Debette

Prof. Stéphanie Debette

WP5 Lead – Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

Paris Brain Institute (ICM)

International expert in cerebral small vessel disease, integrating population neuroscience with clinical translation.

Dr. Marc Joliot

Dr. Marc Joliot

WP5 Co-Lead – Bio-imaging & Population Neuroscience

VBHI Institute / University of Bordeaux

Expert in multimodal brain imaging, supporting rigorous imaging phenotyping and cross-site harmonisation for vascular brain health.

Prof. Maria Vakalopoulou

Prof. Maria Vakalopoulou

WP2 Co-Lead – Multimodal AI

CentraleSupélec, Univ. Paris-Saclay

Expert in computational imaging and multimodal learning for clinically meaningful decision support and translation.

Prof. Stergios Christodoulidis

Prof. Stergios Christodoulidis

WP2 Co-Lead – Computational Pathology

CentraleSupélec, Univ. Paris-Saclay

Specialist in whole-slide imaging and robust weakly-supervised learning for scalable pathology AI.

Prof. Aymeric Dieuleveut

Prof. Aymeric Dieuleveut

WP3 Lead – Federated Learning

École Polytechnique

Expert in federated optimisation and privacy-preserving learning at scale across heterogeneous institutions.

Dr. Reuben Dorent

Dr. Reuben Dorent

WP2 Collaborator – Translational Imaging & Validation

Paris Brain Institute (ICM) / Inria

Researcher in medical imaging interested in weakly supervised learning and domain adaptation.

Prof. Maks Ovsjanikov

Prof. Maks Ovsjanikov

WP1 & WP2 Collaborator – Geometry & Registration

École Polytechnique

Specialist in geometric learning and functional mapping, enabling robust multimodal alignment across scales.

Dr. Pierre Pouget

Dr. Pierre Pouget

Ethics Lead – Governance & Compliance

Paris Brain Institute (ICM) / CNRS

Leads ethics follow-up, ensuring compliance, responsible data use, and robust governance across all work packages.

Prof. Vicky Kalogeiton

Prof. Vicky Kalogeiton

Contributor – Multimodal Learning

École Polytechnique

Researcher in multimodal and cross-modal representation learning for complex visual and biomedical data.

Dr. Carole Lartizien

Dr. Carole Lartizien

WP2 – Multimodal Medical Imaging

INSA Lyon / CREATIS

Expert in AI for medical image analysis with emphasis on robustness, generalisation, and rigorous evaluation.

Dr. Olivier Colliot

Dr. Olivier Colliot

WP2 – Neuroimaging & Machine Learning

Paris Brain Institute (ICM) / CNRS

Expert in neuroimaging and machine learning, supporting methodological validation and clinical relevance.

Partner Institutions

Paris Brain Institute (ICM)

Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)

Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

CentraleSupelec, Univ. Paris-Saclay

Hospices Civils de Lyon

INSA Lyon

VHBI Bordeaux / VBHI

INSERM

CNRS

CEA

Research Units

BRAINTWIN draws expertise from numerous research labs and units:

  • Centre de Mathematiques Laurent Schwartz (Ecole Polytechnique)
  • DMU AP-HP.Sorbonne Neurosciences
  • Ecole des Neurosciences de Bordeaux
  • Federation de Mathematiques de CentraleSupelec
  • Institut du Cerveau (ICM)
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Polytechnique
  • Laboratoire de Mathematiques de l'INSA
  • CREATIS - Medical Imaging Research Center

Join the Team

We are looking for talented PhD students, postdocs, and engineers to join the BRAINTWIN project.

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