Lutz Willy

After a 3 years degree in biology and biochemistry at the University of Nîmes, Willy joined the Institut Mines Télécom Alès engineering school, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. On his last year of engineering school, he went for a double degree with the University of Montpellier on ‘Engineering for Health Devices’ (Ingénierie des Dispositifs pour la santé). To validate his degree, he went in Dr.Ganesh Gowrishankar’s team, IDH, from the LIRMM for a 5 months internship starting january 2022, where he worked in collaboration with Dr.Raphaël Gaudin on the electrical activity of brain organoids. After the internship, Willy integrated Raphaël Gaudin’s team, MDV, as a study engineer to pursue his works on artificial intelligence and software engineering for biological data analysis in tight collaboration with Dr. Ganesh Gowrishankar. In november 2025, Willy started a PhD thesis in Raphaël Gaudin’s team with the doctoral school CBS2, under to co-direction of Solange Desagher and Ganesh Gowrishankar. There he will study the impact of viruses on neuronal plasticity and eletrophysiology using spiking neural networks (SNN).

Outside the lab, Willy enjoys rock climbing, immersing himself in reading manhwas/webtoons and playing video games (he’s even developing one).