Alfred Johny WüestExpertise
Limnologie physique et qualité des eauxModélisation hydrodynamique des eaux naturellesTélédétection des eaux de surfaceTurbulence et brassage des eaux stratifiées
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Robert Schwefel, Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå, Vincent Maurice Nouchi, Theo Baracchini, Ulrike Kobler, Severin Stähly, Oscar Sepúlveda Steiner, Sara Venuleo Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Chaojie Li
Paolo RicciPaolo Ricci earned his masters degree in nuclear engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy) in 2000. His doctoral studies were conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with focus on kinetic simulation of magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail. He spent two-and-a-half years as a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College's Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he worked on gyrokinetic simulations of the Z pinch. He joined the EPFL's Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), as a EURATOM fellow in 2006, was named Tenure Track Assistant Professor in June 2010, and Associate Professor in August 2016. He is at the head of the SPC theory group. Paolo Ricci is the recipient of the 2016 Section de Physique Teaching Prize and of the 2021 Craie d'Or award from the EPFL physics bachelor students.
Cara Christine TobinCARA C. TOBIN, PE
Civil Engineer
EDUCATION
PhD in Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Fulbright Fellowship
01/2007-present
Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Recipient
06/2001
Bachelor's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow
06/1999
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, MINERVE2011
· Research on Predicting floods and managing hydropower in the Swiss Alps. Project includes improving knowledge of hydrological processes and conducting uncertainty analysis.
10/2007 - present
Asian Development Bank: World Bank, Baku, Azerbaijan
· Environmental engineering specialist in charge of reviewing environmental aspects of water supply and wastewater discharge designs. Environmental Assessments Performed and managed the local environmental, social and resettlement specialists.
02/2009 - 07/2009
Asian Development Bank / World Bank, Yerevan, Armenia
· Environmental engineering specialist for the assessment of water supply designs. Performed Environmental Assessments and Resettlement due diligence.
01/2008 - 04/2008
Temple University, Department of Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, USA
· Adjunct Professor for Environmental Engineering,
Introduction to the Environment and Environmental Engineering
10/2005-06/2006
CH2M HILL, Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Philadelphia, USA
· Project leader for river discharge ammonia toxicity study
· Engineer in charge of over $ 100,000 in WWTP design upgrades
10/2004-06/2006
MWH Ltd., Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Christchurch, NZ and Brisbane, AU
Leader hydraulic engineer for major components of a $ 150 million wastewater and desalination project
· Head shape for a dozen water and groundwater projects
02/2003-09/2004
Kennedy / Jenks Consultants, Civil Engineering Consultancy, San Francisco, USA
· Environmental engineer in charge of Drinking Water Source Assessments and water quality sampling programs
08/2001-01/2003
Stanford Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab, USA
· Developer of a 3D computer model simulating turbulent mixing at lateral boundaries due to steepening and breaking of internal waves
08/2000-06/2001
Georgia Instititute of Technology, Civil Engineering Labs, USA
· Analyzed influence of copper sorption rates on particle flocculation kinetics
Developed turbulence · PIV experiments in hydraulic flume
06/1998-06/2000
AFFILIATIONS and SPECIALIZATIONS
. Fluent en Anglais et Français, proficient in Spanish
· Professional Civil Engineer (PE072050), ASCE, AGU, Fulbright Alumnus
· Experienced with ArcGIS, Matlab, R Statistical Analysis, MapInfo, MODFLOW, H2OMap, AutoCAD, Idrisi, Unix / Lenox, Fortran, NetCDF, Visual Basic
Nicola DeluigiExpertise
Geormorphology, geochemistry, hydrology, environmental monitoring
Mission
I'm currently working for the River Ecosystems Laboratory (RIVER) at EPFL performing research on stream ecosystem ecology, ecohydraulics and biogeochemistry. I'm responsible for the RIVER biogeochemistry laboratory, the maintenance of the stream sensor network and related data management and curation. I'm also designing experimental set-ups, preparing field work and equipment and training MSc, PhD students, postdocs, interns
