Name: Lou Zonca
d.o.b: June 23rd, 1986
Nationality: French
ORCID: 0000-0001-9973-4802
Computational Neuroscience Group, Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Funding
FLAG-ERA JTC2021 project ModelDXConsciouness
Ministro de la Ciencia y Innovación/Agencia estatal de Investigación (España): PID2019-105772GB-I00
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 ofconsciousness 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 hippocampalnetwork 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 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)
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).
Defended on July 16th, 2021
Modeling and analytical computations of burst and interburst dynamics in neuronal networks, applications to neuron-glia interactions and oscillatory brain rhythms
Advisor: Prof/ D. Holcman, DR CNRS (IBENS - team leader “Applied mathematics and computational biology”).
Personal grants
01/10/2017 - 31/01/2021: Doctoral fellowship UPMC - ED368 (Ecole Doctorale de Mathématiques Paris Centre)
01/02/2021 - 31/07/2021: Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale 6 months grant FRM (FDT202012010690)
M2 Mathematics for modeling, specialization in Mathematics applied to biology.
Graduated with honnors ("Mention très bien")
M2 Applied Mathematics to Signal and Image processing
Intensive training in mathematics and Physics for selective entrance exams to Engineering schools
Coding Sisters Free tutoring in software development for highschool girls to promote gender equality in scientific and computer science fields - Volunteer tutor
Coursvide19 free online tutoring platform for middle and highschool kids during the confinement period in 2020 - Founder, administrator and volunteer tutor
Conference YRLS member of the organizing comittee for the 2020 edition.
French (native)
English (full professional proficiency)
Spanish (professional working proficiency)
Catalan (beginner)
Arabic (elementary proficiency - A2 CEFR level)
2015-2016
TV5Monde - Project manager: securing the computer network following a cyberattack
2014-2015
Ericsson for TV5Monde - Manager of the technical teams
2012-2014
Canal+/TV5Monde - Production manager
2011-2012
Canal+ - Project manager: modernisation of the technical infrastructures