Simon Elias BibriExpertise
• Sustainable cities• Smarter eco-cities• Sustainable smart cities• Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) • Generative Artificial Intelligence of Things (GAIoT)• Foundation Models (FMs) • Quantum Generative Artificial Intelligence (QGAI)• Urban Digital Twins (UDTs)• Urban Brain (UB) • Smart Circular Metabolism• Urban planning and design• Environmental sustainability and climate resilience• Sustainable smart energy• Sustainable smart transportation• Sustainable smart waste and water management•
Jérôme ChenalExpertise
Urban DesignUrban PlanningUrban ManagementPublic SpaceHousingDevelopment StudiesVisual Anthropology
Mission
Director of CEAT Director of Excellence in Africa Center Affiliate professor at UM6P
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Stéphanie Hasler, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós, Andrea Salmi, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Rim Mrani Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Marc Antoine Messer, Alexandre Rigal Courses Urban planning in the South PE
Marc Antoine MesserExpertise
Territorial analysis Urban planning Metropolitan governance Local governements Local planning
ResearchDépasser les bornes / Crossing boundaries Doctoral Research Project under the supervision of Prof Vincent Kaufmann (EPFL - LaSUR) and Prof Daniel Kübler (UNIZH, 2013-2014) and Dr. Jérôme Chenal (EPFL - CEAT, 2014-2016).2013 - 2016AbstractUrban areas across Europe are constantly expanding under the pressure of demographics and of ever-increasing mobility. Meanwhile, the institutional boundaries o
Akuto Akpedze KonouExpertise
Ecological & Social Architecture; Sustainable urban planning; Urban agriculture and health-oriented spatial planning and design; Nature-Based Solutions; Circular Design and Construction.
Mission
Design and research healthier, more inclusive, climate-resilient environments through ecological architecture and health-oriented spatial planning.
Akuto Akpedze Konou, PhD, is an architect and urban planner affiliated with CEAT ENAC - IIE EPFL. Her work bridges architectural design and urban planning with
Silvia CoccoloExpertise
Urban GreeningOutdoor Thermal Comfort Urban Energy Modelling
Teaching & PhD Courses Behind/Beyond future cities AR-496 We are living in an urban world and the design of sustainable cities is essential in order to decrease our energy footprint. This course provides the instruments to understand the complex urban metabolism, as well as the solutions for planning future smart and sustainable cities. Urban neighborhoods, infrastructures and sustainable development PENS-309
Ben Ori GitaiExpertise
Landscape architecture, urban planning, political geography, Mapping, ecology and History of landscape
Dr. Ben Gitai brings together geography, architecture, and interconnected fields through his multidisciplinary research and practice. He has held teaching positions at leading Swiss and French institutions, including ETH Zurich and EPFL, as well as scientific collaborations with the David Rumsey Mapping Center at Stanford University.His work draws from landscape architecture, landscape ecology, u
Andrew James SontaExpertise
Human-building interaction, building energy, occupant behavior, sustainable design and planning, walkability, network analysis, machine learning, urban informatics, social systems.
Andrew Sonta is a tenure track assistant professor of sustainable civil engineering at EPFL. He directs the ETHOS Lab: Engineering and Technology for Human Oriented Sustainability. ETHOS is an interdisciplinary research group focused on using data-driven and computational tools to create interventions in the built envir
Beate JesselMission
Beate Jessel is a landscape planner and landscape ecologist who deals with various issues of landscape development. She works on planning theory and methodology, landscapes and governance, comprehensive approaches to nature conservation including human needs and perceptions, nature in the city, environmental impact assessments and the integration of renewable energies into landscapes. With regard to architecture, her main interest is the relationship between the built and the "green" environment, in
Jiannong FangExpertise
Computational Fluid Dynamics; High Performance Computing; Groundwater Flow and Transport; Rheology of Complex Fluids
Current work
Large Eddy Simulation; Immersed Boundary Method; Fast Projection Methods for Incompressible Flows; Wind Power Forecasting
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Marco Giovanni Giometto Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Gaofeng Zhao
Iegor VlasenkoIegor (Yegor) Vlasenko (he/him) is a researcher in urban studies and planning with a Master of Science degree in Urban Studies from Malmo University (2017). Since April 2023, he is a Doctoral Assistant and PhD student in Architecture and City Sciences at the Laboratory of Urbanism, EPFL, working on the dissertation entitled «Decentralisation as an Agent of Resilience? Comprehending Urbanisation and Wartime Planning in Ukraine». He is also serving as a Communications Assistant of the Doctoral Program in Arch
Pierre-Emmanuel DessemontetExpertise
- Urban and suburban economic geography and spatial economy- Spatial statistical methods as applied in human geography, including new research paths such as spatial autocorrelation effect mitigation, distance matrices- Encyclopedic knowledge of census records and techniques, in Switzerland and Europe
Expertise
- Urban and suburban economic geography and spatial economy- Spatial statistical methods as applied in human geography, including new research paths such as spatial autocorrelation effect mi
Paola ViganòTeaching & PhD PhD Students Noélie Marion Charlotte Lecoanet, Shyam Sunder Sirimalla Past EPFL PhD Students Roberto Sega, Antoine Vialle, Tommaso Pietropolli, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani, Elena Calafati, Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot Courses Hidden rivers PENS-219 Hidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riversc
Kirk Bright EnuExpertise
Nature-based Solutions (NbS); Green Infrastructure; Urban Resilience; Ecosystem-based Adaptation; Flood Risk Management; Wetlands and River Restoration; Water-related Ecosystems; Participatory and Strategic Landscape Planning and Design; Spatial and Ecosystem Services Modeling; Climate and Environmental Governance
Teaching & PhD Courses Green spaces - Concepts and planning approaches AR-532 Urban green offers a variety of services and thus plays an important role in the transformat
Constantinos MarcouConstantinos Marcou (London, 1988) is a British Cypriot writer, architect, and urban designer based in Larnaca, Cyprus. He studied Architecture at the University of Cyprus, graduating with excellence, and later completed a Master’s degree in Urban Design at UCL, supported by a state scholarship, under the mentorship of Luca Galofaro and Davide Sacconi.After his studies, he joined a local architectural magazine as an editor, where he explored the syntactic and literary dimensions of architecture. There, he w
Sophie LufkinFORMATION
2010 - Thèse de doctorat au sein de l'EDAR (Ecole doctorale Architecture, Ville, Histoire) sur la densification des friches ferroviaires, co-dirigée par les Prof. Inès Lamunière et Vincent Kaufmann
2005 - "Master of Art" en architecture, sous la direction des Prof. Patrick BERGER et Inès LAMUNIERE
2003 - Année d'échange à l'ETHZ
1999 - Entrée à l'EPFL, section architecture
1998 - Maturité type B, Collège Claparède, Genève
EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONNELLE
2010 - Architecte, Cheffe de projet chez LAR - Fernando Romero, México
2006 - Assistante de recherche à lEPFL au Laboratoire darchitecture et mobilité urbaine (LAMU), projet de recherche PNR54 "Densification des friches ferroviaires"
2005 - Architecte chez Devanthéry & Lamunière, Genève
2004 - Stage darchitecture, Eric Maria, Genève
2003 - Stage darchitecture, Sumi & Burkhalter, Zurich
2001 - Stage darchitecture, Devanthéry & Lamunière, Genève
RECOMPENSES ET BOURSES
2001 - Prix SIA Vaudoise pour le projet "Fondation Ella Maillart à Chandolin"
2005 - Prix de l'Association des diplômes A3-EPFL
2008 - Bourse Erna Hamburger
LANGUES
Français (maternelle), allemand et anglais (courantes), portugais (notions)
Claudia Rebeca Binder SignerClaudia R. Binder, a Swiss, Canadian and Colombian citizen, was born in Montreal and spent most of her childhood in Switzerland and Colombia. She studied at ETH Zurich from 1985 to 1996, earning a degree in biochemistry and then a PhD in environmental sciences. After conducting her post-doctoral research at the University of Maryland in the US from 1996 to 1998, she returned to Switzerland and took a position as a senior research scientist at ETH Zurich, studying the interaction between human and environmental systems at the Institute for Natural and Social Science Interface. In 2006, Binder joined the University of Zurich as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, and in 2009 moved to the University of Graz in Austria where she served as a full professor of systems science. In 2011, she took a position at the University of Munich’s Department of Geography as a full professor of human-environment relations.
Binder joined EPFL in March 2016 and set up the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) at ENAC; she also holds the La Mobilière Chair on Urban Ecology and Sustainable Living.
Her research involves analyzing, modelling and assessing the transition of urban systems towards sustainability. She looks in particular at how we can better understand the dynamics of urban metabolism, what characterizes a sustainable city, and what drives and hinders transformation processes. She does so by combining knowledge from social, natural and data science. Her research focuses on food, energy, and sustainable living and transport in urban systems.
In Switzerland, Binder was appointed to the Research Council, Programs Division of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in 2016 and serves on the Steering Committee of the SNSF’s National Research Program 71, “Managing Energy Consumption” and the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCER). She is also a member of the Steering Board on Sustainability Research for the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, she was elected as a member of the University Council of the University of Munich (LMU).
At EPFL, Binder is the academic director of Design Together, a cross-disciplinary teaching initiative. She was appointed to the management team of the Energy Center in 2018 and as head of the working group on EPFL’s energy and sustainability strategy in 2019.
Martine LapriseTeaching & PhD Courses Vers des villes bioclimatiques ? AR-688
Charlotte Cornélie TruwantCurrent work
Truwant+Rodet+ architects www.truwantrodet.ch
Architect, Co-founder of Truwant + Rodet +Guest Professor, EPFL – Atelier for Uncertain ConditionsCharlotte Truwant is an architect and co-founder, with Dries Rodet, of the architectural office Truwant + Rodet +. She is currently Guest Professor at EPFL, where she leads the design studio Atelier for Uncertain Conditions. The studio explores the transformation of existing structures at the intersection of architecture and landscape, where time is con Jean-Louis ScartezziniDirector of EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (1994-present); Founder & Director of ENAC Institute of Infrastructures, Resources and Environment (2002-2009); Founder & Director of EPFL Doctoral Program in Environment (2002-2009); Co-Director of EPFL Institute of Building Technology (1994-1997); Associate Professor of Building Physics at EPFL (1994-1997); Associate Professor of Building Physics at University of Geneva (1990-1997); Group Leader & Research Fellow at the EPFL Solar Energy Research Group (1981-1989); Research Fellow at the Applied Geophysics Institute of University of Lausanne (1980-1981).
