Current Affiliation

TRACER team, Toulouse NeuroImaging Center (ToNIC), INSERM, Toulouse, France.

Invited talks and posters

8-11/07/2025 XVII European Meeting onGlial Cells in Health and Disease - Marseille, France
A. Rancillac*, F.C. Bellier, L. Zonca, D Holcman, L. Lecoin,K. Loulier, F. Chauveau, N. Rouach. Astrocytic heterogeneity in the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) (poster)

21/11/2024 Learning & DynamicsSeminars, FEMTO-ST - Besançon, France
L. Zonca*, A. Eschrichs, G.Patow, D. Manasova, Y. Sanz-Perl, J. Annen, O. Gosseries, S. Laureys, J.D.Sitt, G.Deco. Modeling disorders of consciousness at the patient level reveals the network's influence on diagnosis vs the local node parameters role in prognosis (invited speaker)

30-31/05/2024 Barccsyn - Barcelona, Spain
L. Zonca*, A. Eschrichs, Y. Sanz-Perl, J. Annen, O. Gosseries, J.D. Sitt, G. Deco. Modeling DoC in a reduced dimensional space and calibration at the individual patient level (contributed talk)

12-15/05/2024 Brainnet workshop - KTH Stockholm, Sweden
L. Zonca*, A. Eschrichs, Y. Sanz-Perl, J. Annen, O. Gosseries, J.D. Sitt, G. Deco. Modeling DoC in a reduced dimensional space and calibration at the individual patient level (invited speaker)
See the recorded talk here

25-26/05/2023 Barccsyn - Barcelona, Spain
L. Zonca*, J.D. Sitt, J. Annen, P. Nuñez, O. Gosseries, S. Laureys & G. Deco, Multi-modal modeling of disorders of consciousness at the single patient level (Best poster award)

08-14/10/2022 Gordon Research Conference on Thalamo-cortical interactions - Lucca (Barga), Italy
L. Zonca* & D. Holcman, Emergence and fragmentation of the alpha-band driven by short-term plasticity in a thalamocortical loop model (poster)

05-09/07/2021 XV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health andDisease (online)
E. Dossi*, L. Zonca, H.Pivonkova, L.Vargova, O.Chever, D.Holcman & N.Rouach Astroglial gap junctions strengthen hippocampal network activity by sustaining afterhyperpolarization (poster)

19-21/05/2021 NeuroFrance 2021 (online)
L. Zonca*, E. Dossi, N. Rouach & D. Holcman, Modeling neuron-astrocyte interactions reveals that astroglial control of extracellular potassium regulates burst-interburst dynamics through afterhyperpolarization (poster)

05/03/2021 PSL - Qlife annual meeting, Paris, France (online) 
L. Zonca* & D. Holcman, Modeling synaptic dynamics and AHP, application to the thalamo-cortical loop during anesthesia
(oral presentation, invited speaker)

02-05/02/2021 12th conference on Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences - Bilbao, Spain (online)
L. Zonca & D. Holcman, Modeling bursting in neuronal networks using facilitation-depression and afterhyperpolarization (poster)

Teaching

Sorbonne University (Pierre et Marie Curie campus - Paris VI)

Teaching fellow for first year students
September to December 2019
Vectors, calculus, complex numbers, polynomial equations (36 h)
January to June 2018 & 2019
Logic, sequences, linear algebra, calculus (162 h)

EPITA (Engineering school specialized in software development)

2017-2020
Jury for the selective entrance exams
September 2018 & 2019
First year admission course (2 weeks of lectures and seminars)
topics: complex numbers, calculus, logic and set theory (90 h).

Research positions

01/09/2025 - Present

Postdoctoral researcher | TRACER team (PI: S. Silva) & LabCom AI-NIGMA | ToNIC, INSERM (Toulouse, France)

28/03/2022 - 31/12/2024

Postdoctoral researcher | Computational Neuroscience Group (PI: G. Deco) | Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
Funded research projects:
FLAG-ERAJTC2021 project ModelDXConsciouness, European collaboration: Institut du Cerveau et dela Moëlle (ICM), Paris (France), GIGA Consciousness, Liège (Belgium),Transylvanian Institute for Neuroscience (TINS) Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and CBCUPF, Barcelona (Spain) and Ministro dela Ciencia y Innovación/Agencia estatal de Investigación (España):PID2019-105772GB-I00: I was the lead researcher (postdoc) for the UPF team,I was responsible for all the fMRI-based modeling parts and models predictions, I also contributed to the EEG-based modeling working package (which was led bythe TINS team).
NODYN Project PID2022-136216NB-I00 financed by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 /FEDER, UE., the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund: I collaborated on all objectives of the project, in particular for the implementation and training of the auto-encoders and on the modeling part, as well as the supervision of the PhD students involved in the project.

01/08/2021 - 28/02/2022

Postdoctoral researcher | Group of Data Modeling, Computational Biologyand Predictive Medicine, Applied Mathematics (PI: D. Holcman) | IBENS, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University (Paris, France)

Languages

French (native)
English (full professional proficiency)
Spanish (professional working proficiency)
Catalan (professional working proficiency)
Arabic (elementary proficiency - A2 CEFR level)