Presentation

A group of researchers decides to work together to redefine the interface of biophysics, neuroscience and neurophysiology?

What happens if a group of enthusiasts team up to train the next-generation of researchers? What happens if groups having diverse expertise from optical physics to Medicine join to work together rather than side-by-side?

What happens if fundamental research was not considered an exotic spleen of some long-bearded guys with unruly hair, horn-rimmed spectacles in white lab coats but as indispensable fertile ground for breeding the next generation of ideas?

What happens if cooperation, mutual support, and a true scientific culture provide the conditions for making discoveries rather than incremental, project-driven research.

Next generation. Next ideas. Next discoveries.

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Martin Oheim is SPPIN’s founding and current managing director.

The Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences (SPPIN, UMR 8003) is a Joint Research Unit under the supervision of the CNRS and Université Paris Cité, and a CNRS flagship institute for neurophotonics, biophysics, molecular and cellular neuroscience and neurophysiology.

Founded in 2019 as a bottom-up initiative by scientists with expertise in optics, biophysics, molecular and cellular neurosciences and neurophysiology, SPPIN has grown within a few years into a thematically and methodologically coherent institute, recognized at both national and international levels. A hallmark of the institute is its original positioning at the interface of optics, biophysics and fundamental neuroscience, with a strong technological component that provides it with a distinctive identity and visibility.