User:Fabrice wendling

Prof. F. Wendling (Engineer Diploma: 1989 UTC Compiègne, France; MSc: 1991 Georgia Tech Atlanta; PhD: 1996 Univ. Rennes, France; Habilitation: 2003 Univ. Rennes, France) holds a research director position at Inserm (French NIH). Since 2004, he has led the Inserm Research team “Epileptogenic Systems: Signals and Models”. Prof. Wendling has been working in the field of Biomedical Engineering applied to Epilepsy in close collaboration with neurologists since 1993. He has developed advanced diagnostic methods based on nonlinear dynamics and electrophysiological signal processing. He has always been deeply involved in the search for mechanisms underlying epileptic activity. To this aim, he has developed pioneering models of epileptiform activity specifically adapted to the cellular organization of brain structures involved in partial epilepsies. Some of these models are being used worldwide to analyze epileptic signals. He has also significantly contributed to the combination of computational, clinical and experimental approaches to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the generation of epileptic events like HFOs and lead to novel therapeutic procedures, in particular based on electrical stimulation. In 2012, he received the award of the French Academy of Science (“Prix Michel Monpetit”, for “outstanding contribution to the processing and modeling of electrophysiological signals in the context of epilepsy”). In 2018, he received the Research Award from the Rennes 1 foundation.