Alexandre Cionca is a doctoral assistant in the Electrical Engineering and Neuro-X institute at EPFL. He graduated from EPFL with a specialisation (minor) in Computational Science and Engineering focusing on data science and statistical learning. As part of the COVID-COG project at the CENLab, he worked on all-around data processing and analysis with a particular spotlight on computational and statistical modelling of functional MRI in the unravelling of long-term neuropsychological effects following a SARS-CoV-2 infection. He later did his mandatory civil service as part of The Axon Lab led by Dr. Oscar Esteban in an initiative to evaluate the reliability of clinical MRI workflow that routinely aids medical decisions at CHUV. He recently joined Prof. Dimitri Van de Ville's group as a PhD student to work on the detection of communities within a graph with directed edges (or connections) as well as the applications of the directed graph signal processing (dGSP) framework to better understand the communication between brain regions.

Email : alexandre.cionca(at)gmail.com

ORCID : 0000-0002-1910-9650

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals

• Thomasson†, M., Voruz†, P., Cionca, A., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., Lalive, P., Lövblad, K.-O., Braillard, O., Nehme, M., Coen, M., Serratrice, J., Reny, J.-L., Pugin, J., Guessous, I., Landis, B.N., Griffa, A., Van De Ville, D., Assal F., & Péron, J.A. (2023). Markers of limbic system damage following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Brain Communications. † These authors contributed equally to this work.
• Constantin, I. M., Voruz, P., & Péron, J. A. (2023). Moderating effects of uric acid and sex on cognition and psychiatric symptoms in asymmetric Parkinson’s disease. Biology of sex Differences, 14(1), 1-11.
• Zacharia, A., Kaski, D., Bouthour, W., Dayal, V., Bereau, M., Mahlknecht, P., Georgiev, D., Péron, J.A., Foltynie, T., Zrinzo, L., Jahanshahi, M., Rothwell, J., & Limousin, P. (2023). Effects of deep brain stimulation frequency on eye movements and Cognitive Control. Npj Parkinson's Disease, 9(1).
• Nuber-Champier, A., Cionca, A., Breville, G., Voruz, P., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Allali, G., Lalive, P.H., Benzakour, L., Lövblad, K.-O., Braillard, O., Nehme, M., Coen, M., Serratrice, J., Reny, J.-L, Pugin, J., Guessous, I., Landis, B.N., Griffa, A., Van De Ville, D., Assal, F., & Péron, J.A. (2023). Acute TNFα levels predict cognitive impairment 6–9 months after COVID-19 infection. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 153, 106104.
• Nuber-Champier, A., Voruz, P., Cionca, A., De Alcântara, I. J., Péron, J. A., & Assal, F. (2023). Covid long : aspects neurologiques [Long COVID: neurological aspects]. Revue médicale suisse, 19(827), 972-974.
• Voruz, P., Jacot De Alcântara, I., Cionca, A., Nuber-Champier, A., Assal, F., & Peron, J. A. (2023). Syndrome post-COVID-19 neuropsychologique [Post-COVID-19 neuropsychological syndrome]. Revue Medicale Suisse, 19(824), 800-802.
• Thomasson, M., & Péron, J.A. (2023). Rôle du cervelet dans les émotions. Revue de neuropsychologie, 15, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2023.0739
• Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Voruz, P.; Cionca, A., Assal, F., Péron, J.A. (2023). Cognitive Deficits in the Acute Phase of COVID-19: A Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(762). https://doi.org/10.3390/ jcm12030762
• Voruz, P., Cionca, A., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber‐Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., ... & Péron, J. A. (2022). Brain functional connectivity alterations associated with neuropsychological performance 6–9 months following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. Human Brain Mapping.
• Voruz, P., de Alcântara, I. J., Nuber-Champier, A., Cionca, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., ... & Péron, J. A. (2022). Frequency of abnormally low neuropsychological scores in post-COVID-19 syndrome: the Geneva COVID-COG cohort. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.
• Voruz, P., Cionca, A., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., ... & Péron, J. A. (2022). Functional connectivity underlying cognitive and psychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 syndrome: is anosognosia a key determinant?. Brain Communications, 4(2), fcac057.
   

Oral communications

• Cionca, A., Voruz, P., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., Lalive, P., Lövblad, K-O., Braillard, O., Nehme, M., Coen, M., Serratrice, J., Reny, J-L., Pugin, J., Guessous, I., Landis, B.N., Griffa, A., Van De Ville, D., Assal, F., Péron, J.A. Brain network dynamics associated with self-awareness disorders 6 to 9 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection. (2023). Oral communication, OHBM Annual Meeting 2023. Montréal, Canada
• Cionca, A., Voruz, P., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., Lalive, P.,Lövblad, K-O., Braillard, O., Nehme, M., Coen, M., Serratrice, J., Reny, J-L., Pugin, J., Guessous, I., Landis, B.N., Griffa, A., Van De Ville, D., Assal, F., & Péron, J.A. (2023). Brain network dynamics associated with self-awareness disorders in neuropsychological post-COVID-19 condition: fMRI co-activation patterns of the brainstem pons. European Conference of Clinical Neuroimaging (ECCN), March 14 Genoa, Italy.

Posters

• Cionca, A., Voruz, P., Jacot de Alcântara, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., Lalive, P., Lövblad, K-O., Braillard, O., Nehme, M., Coen, M., Serratrice, J., Reny, J-L., Pugin, J., Guessous, I., Landis, B.N., Griffa, A., Van De Ville, D., Assal, F., Péron, J.A. Brain network dynamics associated with self-awareness disorders 6 to 9 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection. (2023). Poster, OHBM Annual Meeting 2023. Montréal, Canada
• Voruz, P., Cionca, A., Jacot, I., Nuber-Champier, A., Allali, G., Benzakour, L., ... & Péron, J. (2022). Brain functional connectivity alterations associated with neuropsychological performance 6-9 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection [poster]. CISA Annual Research Forum, Geneva.