Laurent Risser, PhD Research engineer with CNRS Institut des mathématiques de Toulouse Bureau 204, bâtiment 1R1 Université Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9 +33 (0)5 61 55 88 19 Welcome to my website! Below is a brief summary of my career and studies. More details are given in the rest of the website. Career: 2012-: Since January 2012, I am fellow research engineer with CNRS at the Toulouse Mathematics Institute. 2011: Research assistant in Medical Image Analysis. Registration of 3D CT images of the lungs. Supervised by Julia Schnabel. Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) Laboratory, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK. 2009-2010: Research assistant in Medical Image Analysis. Toward usable models for the geodesic registration of 3D medical images. Supervised by Daniel Rueckert and Darryl Holm. Biomedical Image Analysis Group and Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Imperial College, London, UK. 2007-2008: Research assistant in Medical Image Analysis / Signal Processing. Robust methods for the analysis of noisy time sequences in functional MRI. Supervised by Philippe Ciuciu. Computer Assisted Neuroimaging Laboratory. Neurospin, CEA Saclay, France. 2003-2007: PhD in Biomedical Image Analysis / Fluid Mechanics. Quantitative Analysis of Micro-vascular Networks from Computed Tomography Images. Supervised by Franck Plouraboué. Fluid Mechanics Institute of Toulouse. Paul Sabatier university, Toulouse, France. 2003-2006: Lecturer in the Mechanics team of the Mathematics, Infomatics and Management Department. Paul Sabatier university, Toulouse, France. Awards and Grants: Co-author with Darryl D. Holm (Principal Investigator) and François-Xavier Vialard of the ERC granted projet 2010: Five Grand Challenges in Computational Anatomy. French national prize "La recherche" 2008 - human health mention. Prize obtained with the team members Franck Plouraboué, Caroline Fonta, Peter Cloetens and Xavier Descombes on my PhD work. This prize rewards pluridisciplinary research works. Principal Investigator of an obtained grant "extension of PhD" from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (French Foundation for Medical Research) with F. Plouraboué and C. Fonta, in 2006. Studies: 2002-2003: French Master 2 in Computer Science applied to Image and Langage Processing. Major in Image analysis. Paul Sabatier university, Toulouse, France. 2001-2002: French Master 1 in Mathematical Engineering. Major in Scientific Computing (PDEs solving and optimization). Paul Sabatier university, Toulouse, France. Software: uTIlzreg: Diffeomorphic registration of 3D images available on sourceforge. Some explanations about uTIlzreg are given here. Last update: 13.01.2011