Guido HaefeliTeaching & PhD PhD Students Federico Ronchetti, Gauri Napoletano Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Carina Trippl Courses Particle detection PHYS-440 The course will cover the physics of particle detectors. It will introduce the experimental techniques used in nuclear and particle physics. The lecture includes the interaction of particles with matter, scintillators, gas detectors, silicon detectors, detectors for particle ID and photo-detectors.
Olivier SchneiderAfter his thesis defense in particle physics in 1989 at University of Lausanne, Olivier Schneider joins LBL, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (California), to work on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron in Fermilab (Illinois), first as a research fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and later as a post-doc at LBL. He participates in the construction and commissioning of the first silicon vertex detector to operate successfully at a hadron collider; this detector enabled the discovery of the sixth quark, named "top". Since 1994, he comes back to Europe and participates in the ALEPH experiment at CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider, as CERN fellow and then as CERN scientific staff. He specializes in heavy flavour physics. In 1998, he becomes associate professor at University of Lausanne, then extraordinary professor at the Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003, and finally full professor at EPFL in 2010. Having worked since 1997 on the preparation of the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which started operation in 2009, he is now analyzing the first data. He also contributes since 2001 to the exploitation of the data recorded at the Belle experiment (KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan). These two experiments study mainly the decays of hadrons containing a b quark, as well CP violation, i.e. the non-invariance under the symmetry between matter and antimatter.
Frédéric MilaExpertise
Condensed matter theory, strongly correlated systems, frustrated and quantum magnetism, tensor networks
Mission
Perform research in condensed matter theory, whenever possible in collaboration with experimentalists at EPFL and throughout the world
Current Work
- Magnetism on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice- Tensor network approach to 2D strongly correlated systems- Thermal properties of 2D frustrated quantum magnets- Exotic phases of quantum one-dimensional models
Since 2003 Full Professor at EPFL (
Frédéric BlancExpertise
High Energy Physics
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Rita De Sousa Ataíde Da Silva, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Maria Carolina Feliciano Faria Past EPFL PhD Students Lino Ferreira Lopes, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Jessica Prisciandaro, Giovanni Veneziano, Sebastiana Gianì, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk Courses Selected topics in nuclear and particle physics PHYS-400 This course presents the physical principles and the recent rese
Tatsuya NakadaTeaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Géraldine Conti, Johan Luisier, Anne Keune, Lesya Shchutska, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Lucía Castillo García, Ilya Komarov, Zhirui Xu, Olivier Göran Girard, Brice Maurin, Pavol Stefko Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Vladimir Macko
Frédéric KaplanExpertise
Digital Humanities, Big Data, Models of language acquisition and evolution, Innovative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Developmental Systems, Intrinsic Motivation, Multi-agent system, Joint attention, Gesture Interaction
Expertise
Digital Humanities, Big Data, Models of language acquisition and evolution, Innovative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Developmental Systems, Intrinsic Motivation, Multi-agent system, Joint attention, Gesture Interaction
Short biography Pro
Anastasia AilamakiExpertise
Database management systems, scientific applications, computer architecture
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Hamish Nicholson, Anna Herlihy, Yi Jiang, Eleni Zapridou, Georgiy Konstantinovich Lebedev, Ioanna Tsakalidou Past EPFL PhD Students Farhan Tauheed, Radu Ioan Stoica, Manos Athanassoulis, Pinar Tözün, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Danica Porobic, Iraklis Psaroudakis, Manos Karpathiotakis, Matthaios Alexandros Olma, Mirjana Pavlovic, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou,
Victor PanaretosCurriculum vitae Background & EducationPublications & PreprintsHonours & AwardsEditorial ActivitiesInvited Talks & Seminars
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Ulysse Naepels, Nikitas Georgakis, Ho Yun Past EPFL PhD Students Andrea Kraus, Shahin Tavakoli, Mikael Kuusela, Yoav Zemel, Marie-Hélène Descary, Valentina Masarotto, Tomas Rubin, Tomas Masák, Laya Ghodrati, Kartik Waghmare, Leonardo Santoro Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Matthieu Simeoni, Ophelia Miralles, Sonia Alouini, Timmy Rong Tian Tse, Krali M
Delphine Ribes LemayI am Delphine Ribes Lemay, born in Lyon, France, in November 1982. I hold a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in signal and image processing from CPE Lyon (2008).My scientific career began in 2006 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA, under the supervision of Guido Gerig, where I worked on grey matter segmentation. I later pursued an academic exchange at EPFL in Switzerland, where I collaborated with Jean-Philippe Thiran and Meritxell Bach Cuadra, completing
Daniel Gatica-PerezExpertise
Social computing, social media, ubiquitous computing, crowdsourcing, machine learning.
Current work
My research integrates theories and methods from ubiquitous computing, social media, machine learning, and social sciences to understand human behavior in daily life and to create applications for social good.My current research interests include:* Mobile crowdsourcing and social media analytics for social good.* Crowdsourcing for cities.* Social video analytics, with focus on conversational behavio
Sandro CarraraSandro Carrara is an IEEE Fellow for his outstanding record of accomplishments in the field of design of nanoscale biological CMOS sensors. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in 2016 for his leadership in the emerging area of co-design in Bio/Nano/CMOS interfaces. He is a Professor of the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland), and head of the "Bio/CMOS Interfaces" (BCI) research group. He is former professor of optical and electrical biosensors at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Biophysics (DIBE) of the University of Genoa (Italy) and former professor of nanobiotechnology at the University of Bologna (Italy). He holds a PhD in Biochemistry & Biophysics from University of Padua (Italy), a Master degree in Physics from University of Genoa (Italy), and a diploma in Electronics from National Institute of Technology in Albenga (Italy). His scientific interests are on electrical phenomena of nano-bio-structured films, and include CMOS design of biochips based on proteins and DNA. Along his carrier, he published 7 books, one as author with Springer on Bio/CMOS interfaces and, more recently, a Handbook of Bioelectronics with Cambridge University Press. He has more than 250 scientific publications and is author of 13 patents. He is now Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Journal, the largest journal among 2019 IEEE publications; he is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal BioNanoScience by Springer, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He is a member of the IEEE Sensors Council and his Executive Committee. He was a member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Circuits And Systems Society (CASS). He has been appointed as IEEE Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer for the years 2017-2019, and CASS Distinguished Lecturer for the years 2013-2014. His work received several international recognitions: several Top-25 Hottest-Articles (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and two times in 2012) published in highly ranked international journals such as Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Sensors and Actuators B, IEEE Sensors journal, and Thin Solid Films; a NATO Advanced Research Award in 1996 for the original contribution to the physics of single-electron conductivity in nano-particles; six Best Paper Awards at the IEEE Sensors Conference 2019 (Montreal) in 2019, Conferences IEEE NGCAS in 2017 (Genoa), MOBIHEALTH in 2016 (Milan), IEEE PRIME in 2015 (Glasgow), in 2010 (Berlin), and in 2009 (Cork); three Best Poster Awards at the EMBEC Conference in 2017 (Tampere, Finland), Nanotera workshop in 2011 (Bern), and NanoEurope Symposium in 2009 (Rapperswil). He also received the Best Referees Award from the journal Biosensor and Bioelectronics in 2006. From 1997 to 2000, he was a member of an international committee at the ELETTRA Synchrotron in Trieste. From 2000 to 2003, he was scientific leader of a National Research Program (PNR) in the filed of Nanobiotechnology. He was an internationally esteemed expert of the evaluation panel of the Academy of Finland in a research program for the years 2010-2013. He has been the General Chairman of the Conference IEEE BioCAS 2014, the premier worldwide international conference in the area of circuits and systems for biomedical applications
Andrea TestinoExpertise
Ceramics synthesis and Processing; Nanomaterial synthesis; Nanomaterial characterization; Thermodynamic - Kinetic modeling; Powder synthesis scale-up.
MER Dr. Andrea Testino received his master’s degree in Industrial Chemistry and PhD in Material Science from the University of Genoa (Italy). He did post-doctoral studies at EPFL (CH), University College London (UK), and University of Milan (I) working on nanoparticles synthesis and characterization. In 2007 he joined the company TDK-EPC (A) as Seni
Michael LehningExpertise
Interaction Cryosphere - Atmosphere in particular Snow Processes Natural Hazards Warning and Forecasting Turbulence and Boundary Layer Flows over Alpine Terrain Mountain Hydrology and Permafrost Dynamics Renewable Energy (Wind and Solar) in the Alps and as Contribution to the Swiss Energy Change Agenda
Expertise
Interaction Cryosphere - Atmosphere in particular Snow Processes Natural Hazards Warning and Forecasting Turbulence and Boundary Layer Flows over Alpine Terrain Mountain Hydrology and Perm
