* According to the reference levels of the european council: elementary A1/A2, intermediate B1/B2, advanced C1/C2 (see http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/Portfolio/?L=E&M=/main_pages/levels.html)

Curriculum Vitae

Tom Lavanchy

Ruelle des Châtaigniers 1

1026 Denges

Vaud, Suisse

tel 021 647 78 07

mobile 079 563 07 89

email tomlavanchy@gmail.com

Birth 1 october 1984 Nationality Swiss Civil status single Languages french (mother tongue)

german (level C2*) swiss german (level C2) english (level C2) portugese (Brazil – level C1)

Education :

2009 - Master in psychology (university of Zurich) Orientation: major psychology, minor geography

2005 – 2008 Bachelor in psychology (University of Lausanne and Zurich) Orientation: major psychology, minor psychology and human sciences

Background:

2008 – Researcher in the laboratory of cognitive neurosciences (LNCO) in the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) with Prof. Olaf Blanke

2008 – Co-therapist in psychodrama (psychoanalytical approach) with Dr. Med. Olivier Bonard

7 juin 2009 Poster presentation (topic : audiotactile integration and self-consciousness) for EPFL at the conference of ASSC (Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness) in Berlin

13 mai 2009 Speaker at the university of Lausanne (topic : self-consciousness) as part of the psychophysiological lecture (3th year Bachelor) of Prof. Françoise Schenk

2005 – 2008 Co-watcher at the psychiatric hospital (CHUV, Lausanne)

Other activities :

I’m passionate about sport in wilderness and i’ve been practicing mountain sports for ten years now (above all mountaineering, skiing, climbing)