Developing digital brain twin solutions

VB Tech is a French company developing digital brain twin solutions based on the Virtual Brain technology.

Its goal is to provide simulation-based tools to support both clinical decision-making and neuroscience research.

VB Tech has built a comprehensive ecosystem for processing multimodal brain data — including neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and brain connectivity — integrated into a personalized simulation platform (a functional Digital Brain Twin for every patient) powered by Virtual Brain technology.

These data are used within a clinically validated modeling framework to develop advanced decision-support tools for precision medicine.

This approach led to the creation of VB Tech’s first product: VEP – Virtual Epileptic Patient™, a solution for drug-resistant epilepsy, currently undergoing clinical and regulatory validation.

  • Jean-Marc Ferrier

    CEO

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    Jean-Marc Ferrier has over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry, including 12 years at Zimmer, the global industry leader in orthopedics, where he held executive positions.

    He co-founded his first startup company, Graftys in 2005 and later launched a consultancy, Upstream, to support regional innovation.

    In 2020, he joined the Virtual Brain project to lead its commercialization.

    He founded VB Tech in 2021 to transfer the Virtual Brain technology to the market with an exclusive global license, and to prepare the market launch of its first application, the Virtual Epileptic Patient (VEP).

  • Emmanuel Maille

    Deputy CEO

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    Emmanuel Maille is Deputy CEO of VB Tech, a startup in Aix-en-Provence developing the virtual brain technology, with a first application in epilepsy care.

    Appointed in 2022, he brings experience from biotech ventures like Proteaxis and Proteus.

    He has accompanied VB Tech through early funding and corporate structuring.

    His mix of technical and entrepreneurial skills have benefitted to the development and promotion of the Virtual Brain Twin and of the Virtual Epileptic Patient (VEP).

  • Prof. Dr. Viktor Jirsa

    Chief Science Officer

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    A pioneer of The Virtual Brain, Viktor Jirsa transforms 25 years of large-scale network modelling into VB Tech’s personalised brain-twin platform.

    He is director of the Inserm Systems Neuroscience Institute and key figure in EU flagships (Human Brain Project, EBRAINS) bridging research and clinic.

    As co-founder of VB Tech and author of more than 200 papers, he guarantees the scientific rigor behind VB Tech’s innovations.

  • Jan-Paul Triebkorn

    Product owner

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    Jan-Paul Triebkorn is a medical doctor and researcher specialised in computational modeling of brain dynamics.

    He is the Hygie Product Owner while his work focuses on personalized brain simulations to study epilepsy and cognitive disorders.

  • Lisa Otten

    Communication and Hub Coordinator

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    With a background in neuroscience and more than 10 years of experience in science project management, Lisa Otten is at the interface of research at Aix-Marseille University and VB Tech – helping bridge research and clinical applications, supporting the coordination of virtual brain technologies.

  • Eric Guiffard

    Chief Technical Officer

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    Leveraging his expertise in Medical Software Engineering and Software System Engineering Eric Guiffard is driving the development of VB Tech products to achieve their release to the market.

  • Philippe Schulz

    Software manager

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    With over 25 years of experience in the software industry, notably in managing professional services organizations and driving sales with major accounts across EMEA, Philippe Schulz is bringing his expertise to accelerate the setup of VB Tech software organization.

  • Prof. Fabrice Bartolomei

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    Fabrice Bartolomei is professor at Aix-Marseille University, as well as neurologist and epileptologist at the APHM, where he leads the Epileptology and Clinical Neurophysiology department.

    He is a global expert in drug-resistant epilepsy as leader of the EPINOV project which uses virtual brain modeling to improve epilepsy surgery.

    In VB Tech, he is leading the Hygie Hub #0.

  • Lia Domide

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    Lia Domide is a software architect and managing partner at Codemart, an IT company in Cluj-Napoca specializing in neuroscience applications.

    She has played a key role in developing The Virtual Brain platform and leads all product development at VB Tech.

  • Prof. Maxime Guye

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    Maxime Guye is a neurologist and biophysics professor at Aix-Marseille University, directing the Centre for Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine.

    He leads research on ultra-high field MRI to improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders, especially epilepsy.

  • Dr. Adam Williamson

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    Dr. Adam  Wiliamson is a researcher focusing on technology-based therapies and neuroprosthetics in epilepsy.

    His current research focuses on non-invasive deep brain stimulation for epilepsy using Temporal Interference.

  • Dr. Huifang Wang

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    Dr. Huifang Wang is an INSERM research engineer focusing on personalized whole-brain modeling and virtual brain twin technologies.

    She develops the Virtual Epileptic Patient pipeline and digital twins for diagnosing and treating epilepsy and psychiatric disorders.

  • Jochen Mersmann

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    With a background in physics and over 30 years of experience, Jochen Mersmann has been implicated in projects at the intersection of software architecture and scientific research involving the Virtual Brain.

  • The Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS), member of INSERM and Aix-Marseille University, is a research center focused on brain dynamics and disorders like epilepsy.

    The Virtual Brain Technologies are based on the research conducted in this institute.

  • Codemart is a software engineering firm based in Cluj-Napoca, specializing in neuroscience applications and open-source brain simulators like The Virtual Brain and the platform Hygie.

  • The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is France's largest public research organization.

  • The Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) is a French public research institute dedicated to human health and medical science.

  • The Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Marseille is the public hospital system of Marseille, providing healthcare services and supporting medical research.