Alexandre Lainé website

University Degrees and Certificates

• DESU, Applied Data Sciences in Neuroscience
July & September 2024, NeuroSchool, with High Distinction.


• Master's Degree in Neuroscience, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrated Neurosciences track.
2022-2024, Faculty of Sciences at Aix-Marseille University, with Distinction.


• CESU, Application of Animal Experimentation Procedures (Level A).
January 2023, Faculty of Pharmacy at Aix-Marseille University, with Distinction.


• Bachelor’s Degree in Science and Technology, Life Sciences major, Neuroscience track.
2019-2022, Faculty of Sciences at Aix-Marseille University, with Merit.


• General Baccalaureate, Scientific stream, specialization in Life and Earth Sciences.
2019, Aix-Marseille Academy, with Merit.

Professional Scientific Experience

• Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, supervised by Laurent U. Perrinet and Sophie Denève.
Since October 2024, NeOpTo Team, Timone Neuroscience Institute.


• Master’s Final Internship, NeOpTo Team, Timone Neuroscience Institute, supervised by Laurent U. Perrinet.
January - July 2024, "Model-based analysis of neuronal activity in the primary visual cortex of marmosets".


• Research Internship, NeOpTo Team, Timone Neuroscience Institute, supervised by Laurent U. Perrinet.
June 2023, "Decoding orientation and variability of visual stimuli in V1".


• Research Internship, Molecular and Pharmacological Interactions Team, Institute of Neurophysiopathology, supervised by Pascale Barbier.
June - July 2022, "Role of phosphorylation in structuring tau protein during its binding to microtubules in Alzheimer’s disease".


• Research Internship, SpiCCI Team, Timone Neuroscience Institute, supervised by Anne Kastner.
June 2021, "Analysis of the central canal region of the spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons in macaques".

Scientific Publications

Conference paper

• Lainé A.C., Denève S., Priebe, N.J., Masson, G.S., Perrinet L.U. (2025). Population decoding of visual motion direction in V1 marmoset monkey : effects of uncertainty.
  Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2025. DOI : 10.1007/s10827-025-00915-4

Teaching, Training, and Scientific Outreach

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant in Methodology and Statistics.
September - December 2025, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Aix-Marseille University.


• Python Programming Tutoring.
January - May 2023, 2024 & 2025, NeuroSchool, NeuroMarseille Institute.


• Teaching Assistant in Mathematics.
October - December 2021, 2022 & 2023, Mathematics Department, Faculty of Sciences at Aix-Marseille University.

Scientific Communication

• Oral presentation at the Day for Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience.
February 2026, "Introduction to PyTorch" workshop in collaboration with Matthis Dallain.


• Poster presentation at the Neurodays 2025.
November 2025, "Population decoding of visual motion direction in V1 marmoset monkey : effect of uncertainty.".


• Poster presentation at the 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
July 2025, "Population decoding of visual motion direction in V1 marmoset monkey : effect of uncertainty.".


• Poster presentation at the ED62 Symposium.
May 2025, "Model-based analysis of neurobiological data to study the representation of natural features".


• Poster presentation at the ISM (INT Student Meeting) 2025.
April 2025, "Population decoding of visual motion direction in V1 marmoset monkey : effects of uncertainty".


• Poster presentation at the Neurodays 2024.
November 2024, "Model-based analysis of neuronal activity in the primary visual cortex of marmosets".


• Poster presentation at the Annual Conferences of the Timone Neuroscience Institute.
November 2024, "Model-based analysis of neuronal activity in the primary visual cortex of marmosets".


• Poster presentation at the Neuromarseille Day.
June 2023, "Decoding orientation and variability of visual stimuli in V1".

Funding and Awards

• Doctoral funding from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
2024-2027, collaboration with Laurent Perrinet and Sophie Denève.


• Cum Laude funding from NeuroMarseille-NeuroSchool.
Participation in the 2024 Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).

Other Qualifications

• Music Studies Diploma, specialized in Clarinet and Music Theory.
2017, Valence Romans South Rhône-Alpes Conservatory.