The Inria research centre in Lyon is the 9th Inria research centre, formally created in January 2022. It brings together approximately 410 people in 20 research teams and research support services. Its staff are distributed in Villeurbanne, Lyon Gerland, and Saint-Etienne. The Lyon centre is active in the fields of software, distributed and high-performance computing, embedded systems, quantum computing and privacy in the digital world, but also in digital health and computational biology.
Cophy is a project team between Inria, Inserm and CRNS, which gathers an international team of researchers, engineers, clinicians and students interested in studying brain networks, to shed light on information processing, its modulation by attention, prediction and learning, as well as the intricate coupling between action and perception. Our research combines (1) cross-species in-vivo observations of brain electrical and neurotransmitter dynamics in health and pathology; (2) in silico models, including Bayesian models, neural mass models and spiking neural networks; (3) in vitro neuronal network measurements. Our aim is to innovate in neurotechnologies in the broadest sense, both for research and for clinical applications, particularly in neurodevelopmental disorders.