Raphaëlle Dahan

Raphaëlle received her bachelor’s degree in Engineering Sciences from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 2022, and a double master’s degree in Nanotechnologies for ICTs from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2025. During an exchange semester at EPFL, Switzerland, she worked on a project in bio-nanochip design, which strengthened her interest in biomedical applications of engineering.

For her master’s thesis, she joined the Therapy Science Lab at the Lake Lucerne Institute (LLUI), where she contributed to the design of a Virtual Reality-based serious game for movement therapy in neurorehabilitation.

In January 2026, she joined the SMS Lab as an external PhD student at the Neuroscience Graduate School (ZNZ). She continues her work at the Therapy Science Lab as part of a external page DIZH-funded project, developing VR-based serious games for neurorehabilitation. Her work focuses on adaptive difficulty design for trunk control training in people after stroke, and on the usability of these systems for clinician-supervised use in the inpatient setting.

She is broadly interested in biomedical engineering, particularly in how technology can be designed to support patients and clinicians in rehabilitation and care.