Carl Petersen

Carl Petersen is a Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Sensory Processing (LSens) at the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) within the Faculty of Life Sciences (SV) at EPFL. His research focuses on understanding sensory perception and associative learning at the neuronal circuit level in mice. He has held leadership roles, including Director of the BMI (2019–2022).

Education: PhD in Physiology (1996, University of Cambridge) under Sir Michael Berridge; postdoctoral training at UCSF and Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research.

Research: Investigates cortical circuits using electrophysiology, imaging, and optogenetics. Key areas include whisker-based sensory processing, cortical plasticity during reward-based learning, and the interplay between sensory input and motor output.

Grants & Labs: Leads the LSens lab, collaborating on projects like the Cell-class-specific motor maps (2025) and dopamine dynamics (2024).

Awards: Not explicitly listed in provided data, but he is a member of prominent committees including the Neuroscience PhD program (EDNE-GE).