Students and Postdocs

PhD students

• Alice Julien Laferrière (co-supervised with Susana Vinga and Vincent Lacroix)
• Laura Urbini (co-supervised with Catherine Matias)
• Leandro Ishi Soares de Lima (co-supervised with Vincent Lacroix and Giuseppe Italiano)
• Henri Taneli Pusa (co-supervised with Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela)

PhD students in co-supervision with another country

• Mattia Gastaldello (co-supervised with Tiziana Calamoneri, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• André Veríssimo (co-supervised with Susana Vinga, IDMEC, IST, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Alex di Genova (co-supervised by Alejandro Maass, CMM University of Chile, Santiago, and Eric Goles, University Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile)

Postdocs

• Ricardo Andrade (with Roberto Marcondes Cesar Junior, USP, Brazil)
• Mariana Galvão Ferrarini (co-supervised with Arnaldo Zaha, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
• Martin Wannagat (co-supervised with Leen Stougie and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela

Ex-students (Masters, PhD, sandwich PhD) or postdocs who remain collaborators

• Nadia Pisanti (PhD defended in 2001, then post-doc for 9 months, currently Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Italy)
• Laurent Marsan (PhD defended in 2002, currently Associate Professor at IUT Versailles)
• Estela Maris Rodrigues (PhD defended in 2003, currently Associate Professor at Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil)
• Julien Allali (PhD defended in 2004, currently Associate Professor at the LABRI, University of Bordeaux)
• Raquel Tavares (Post-doc for 2 years, currently Associate Professor at University Lyon 1)
• Susana Vinga, Lisbon, Portugal (PhD defended in 2005, supervisor: Jonas de Almeida, currently Associate Professor at the INESC-IST, Lisbon)
• Jeane C. B. de Melo (PhD defended in 2005, co-supervised with Kátia Guimarães, University of Pernambuco, Brazil, currently Professor at the Federal Agricultural University of Recife)
• Said Sadique Adi (PhD defended in 2005, co-supervised with Carlos Eduardo Ferreira, University of São Paulo, Brazil, currently Professor at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil)
• Pierre Peterlongo (PhD defended in 2006, co-supervised with Maxime Crochemore and Nadia Pisanti, currently CR2 in the Symbiose INRIA Project-Team, Rennes)
• Yoan Diekmann (pre-Master student, co-supervised with Eric Tannier and Julien Allali; currently is doing his PhD in the PDBC, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Steffen Heyne (Erasmus student, co-supervised with Julien Allali, now doing his PhD in the group of Rolf Backofen, Freiburg University, Germany
• Alexis Gambis (DEA University of Marne-la-Vallée defended in 2004; returned to the US for a PhD at Rockfeller University, New York)
• Eric Tannier (Postdoc for one year starting June 2003, currently CR1 INRIA)
• Patricia Thébault (Postdoc for two years starting September 2005, now Associate Professor at University of Bordeaux)
• Cinzia Pizzi (Postdoc for one year until Dec. 2007, now Postdoc at Padova University, Italy)
• Vincent Lacroix (PhD defended in 2007, University of Lyon 1, CNRS BDI scholarship, was Postdoc at Centre de Regulació Genòmica for 14 months before doing 9 months of postdoc back in the team; currently Associate Professor in BAMBOO)
• Paulo Gustavo Fonseca (Postdoc for one year after part of his PhD done in the team and defended in 2008, currently Associate Professor at INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)
• Claire Lemaitre (PhD defended in 2008, University of Lyon 1, co-supervised with Christian Gautier, currently CR2 in the Symbiose INRIA Project-Team, Rennes)
• Florence Cavalli (University of Lyon 1, co-supervised with Cristina Vieira, is doing her PhD at the EBI, Cambridge)
• Marc Deloger (PhD defended in 2009, University of Lyon 1, co-supervised with Cristina Vieira. Now postdoc at the INRA of Versailles)
• Marília Dias Vieira Braga (PhD Defended in 2009, AlBan and University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Eric Tannier, now postdoc at University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• Ludovic Cottret (PhD defended in 2009, University of Lyon 1, co-supervised with Hubert Charles, INSA Lyon, now postdoc at the INSA Toulouse)
• Augusto Vellozo (Currently on his way back to Brazil)
• Amélie Véron (Now postdoc at the INSERM UMR590, Lyon)
• Nuno Mendes (PhD defended in 2011, IST at Lisbon-Portugal and University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Ana Teresa Freitas. Has a postdoc at the IGC, Oeiras, Portugal)
• Alexandra Carvalho, (PhD defended in 2011, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, co-supervised with Arlindo Oliveira. Has a position in academia in Lisbon)
• Vicente Acuña (PhD defended in 2010, then post-doc for 18 months, currently postdoc at the Center for Mathematical Modelling and Center for Genome Regulation, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
• Alexandre Freire, USP, São Paulo, Brazil (PhD defended in Brazil, supervisor: Carlos Eduardo Ferreira, sandwich PhD CNPq scholarship, currently Associate Professor at USP-Leste)
• Patricia Simões (PhD defended in 2012, FCT, University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Sylvain Charlat, Génétique et Évolution des interactions Hôtes-Parasites, University of Lyon I, now working at Inserm in Lyon)
• Matteo Brilli (Now postdoc at he Fondazione Edmund Mach in the Trento area, Italy)
• Lilia Brinza (Now working at the Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) of Lyon)
• Janice Kielbassa (Now engineer at Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie Lyon (CRCL))
• Paulo Vieira Milreu (PhD defended in 2012, University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Vincent Lacroix and Christian Gautier, currently researcher at TecSinapse, Brazil)
• Gustavo Sacomoto (PhD defended in 2014, University of Lyon I, then postdoc for one year, co-supervised with Pierluigi Crescenzi, University of Florence, Italy, and Vincent Lacroix, currently researcher at Google Paris)
• Pierre-Antoine Farnier (PhD defended in 2014, University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Laurence Mouton and Fabrice Vavre)
• Cecília Klein (PhD defended in 2014, University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Ana Tereza de Ribeiro Vasconcelos, currently postdoc at the CRG, Barcelona, Spain)
• Beatrice Donati (PhD defended in 2015, University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Pierluigi Crescenzi, University of Florence, Italy)
• Blerina Sinaimeri (postdoc from 2012 to 2015, now Inria Junior Researcher in the Erable Team)
• Susan Higashi (PhD defended in 2014, University of Lyon I, co-supervised with Christian Gautier and Stefano Colella, then postdoc in the team for one year, and currently working for a private company on software development)
• Christian Baudet (visiting PhD student from University of Campinas, Brazil, and then postdoc from 2011 to 2014; currently working at Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France)
• Laurent Bulteau (postdoc from 2014 to 2015, now Junior Researcher at CNRS, University of Marne-la-Vallée, France)
• Hong Phong Pham (Master student ENS Lyon, co-supervised with Laurent Bulteau and Arnaud Mary)
• Delphine Parrot (postdoc from 2014 to 2016, now postdoc at GEOMAR Centre for Marine Biotechnology, Kiel, Germany)
• Martin Wannagat (PhD defended in July 2016, University of Lyon 1, co-supervised with Leen Stougie and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela; currently postdoc in the team)