Yves KazemiTeaching & PhD Courses Urban Green&Blue infrastructure and global warming ENV-462 The course introduces the concept of green and blue urban infrastructure in the context of global warming. It presents knowledge, concepts, and methods for planning, developing, and maintaining an effective network of green and blue infrastructure in urban areas.
Francisco Xavier Felix Martin Del CampoExpertise
Transdisciplinary researchSocio-metabolic researchMaterial flows and stocks analysisSustainabilityBuilt environmentInfrastructureClimate changeResource securityCircular economyWaste
Francisco has a Civil Engineering background specialized in Resources Management and has several years of professional experience in the construction and engineering sector. He received his Master's degree in Project Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering from IMT Atlantique, France, and his PhD in Sustain
Alain NussbaumerExpertise
Metallic structuresStructural glassFatigue and fracture mechanicsAssessment of existing structuresUltra low cycle
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Luís Costa Borges, Claire Acevedo, Nariman Maddah, Farshid Zamiri Akhlaghi, Manuel Santarsiero, Luca D'Angelo, Cláudio Alexandre Pereira Baptista, Albano António Sousa, Jagoda Cupac, Ardalan Hosseini, Martin Garcia, Hossein Heydarinouri, Jian Zhan Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Marina Rocha Courses Design of steel structures CIVIL-2
Francesco VarratoExpertise
Simulation and theory of coarse grained models of soft matter. Studies on colloidal gels, polymer melts, supercooled liquids and glassy systems. Research on physical fractals and dynamically arrested amorphous structures.
Expertise
Simulation and theory of coarse grained models of soft matter. Studies on colloidal gels, polymer melts, supercooled liquids and glassy systems. Research on physical fractals and dynamically arrested amorphous structures.
Teaching & PhD Courses Hands-on with Research
Laurin Paul Rudolf BaumgardtLaurin Baumgardt is an urban anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher investigating architectural productions and building politics in South Africa. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Rice University. Funded by awards from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, his long-term ethnographic research focuses on housing design and building politics, infrastructure and development, and urban activism within the context of Cape Town’s entrenched socio-spatial segregation.
Stéphane JoostExpertise
Geographic Information Science and spatial statisticsMolecular ecology, Landscape genomics, Seascape genomicsSpatial epidemiology, Health geographics
Publications Publications- List of publications
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Marco André Vieira Ruas, Manon Laetitia Pribille, Martine Valérie Besse Past EPFL PhD Students Estelle Rochat, Solange Catherine Gaillard, Oliver Michele Selmoni, Anaïs Ladoy, Annie Sandrine Guillaume Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Sylvie Stucki, Kevin Leempoel, Martí
Valentin Daniel Maurice BourdonValentin Bourdon is an architect, postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant. He obtained the french architectural diploma in 2013 from the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est at Marne-la-Vallée under the direction of Jacques Lucan, and completed his PhD at EPFL in 2020, under the supervision of Luca Ortelli. Since September 2021, he coordinates the Habitat Research Center at EPFL. Involved in the studies of the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation between 2017 and 2021, he also contributes in the supervision of its Housing Studio - Project Theory and Criticism for architecture bachelor. During his doctoral research, he benefited of an academic stay at Metrolab Brussels in 2019 with the support of the SNSF, and published multiple scientific and non-academic publications. His arrival in Switzerland and return to the academic world take place after a thorough professional experience in the parisian office MGAU Michel Guthmann Architecture Urbanisme. From 2010 to 2016, he participed to the majority of its developed projects and supervised several of them, both collective dwellings projects and urban projects.
Baraka Jean-Claude MunyakaEducation Doctorate | Industrial & Systems Engineering 2021 – 2021 University of Pretoria Masters | Insdustrial Engineering 2014 – 2014 Durban University of Technology Professionals experiences Industrial Engineer Consultant 2012–2022 Tsanyela, XIG Minerals, Volticor Enterprises, Durban; Snackworks, Durban; Microfinish Manufacturing, Durban; Nampak Flexible, Durban; Emcor Flexible, CapeTown;Industrial Engineer 2009–2010 Smith’s Plastics Ltd, Durban
Teaching &
Armel Firmin Kemajou MbiandaTravail en cours
La construction des périphéries urbaines en Afrique subsaharienneSelon la Banque mondiale, les villes africaines connaîtront un doublement de leur population en 2040 et un triplement en 2050 pour atteindre environ 1,5 milliards d'urbains (Lall, 2017). La dimension de ces prévisions donne toute sa mesure quand on les rapporte à l'espace dans lequel elles se réaliseront. Elles deviennent même très vite alarmantes, car aujourd'hui déjà, les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne n'arrivent pas à offri