Andreas ZüttelTeaching & PhD PhD Students Boyu Ouyang, Wai Kwan Liu, Guillaume Bérenger Rod, Aleksandar Mihaylov Mikov, Rui Li, Akhil Varma Penmathsa Past EPFL PhD Students Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Kun Zhao, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Mo Li, Jie Zhang, Youngdon Ko, Cedric David Koolen, Thi Ha My Pham, Zohreh Akbari, Yasemen Kuddusi Courses Thermodynamics of energy conversion and storage ChE-414 The course is an introduction to the energy conversion. It focusseson the thermodynamics of the engines a
Elison de Nazareth MatioliTeaching & PhD PhD Students Hongkeng Zhu, Yuan Zong, Utku Agtas, Ibrahim Osama Elhagali, Mohammad Rezaei, Zheng Hao, Amirhossein Esteghamat, Ivan Krsic, Luca Mazzone, Önder Soydal, Francesco Marcantoni, Hakan Cankat Gür Past EPFL PhD Students Jun Ma, Giovanni Santoruvo, Minghua Zhu, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Armin Jafari, Catherine Erine, Taifang Wang, Nirmana Perera, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, Alessandro Floriduz Past EPFL PhD Students a
Wendy Lee QueenTeaching & PhD PhD Students Pratap Narayan Soni, Pattaraphon Rodlamul, Matthieu Meoli, Olivier Thomas Smith, Sanjay Venkatachalam, Anne Faustine Sido Belin, Christopher William Gardner, Lorenzo Meneghin Past EPFL PhD Students Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jocelyn Richard Roth, Timo Markus Oskar Felder Courses Chemical engineering practice ChE-309 This course provides the students with practical experience wit
Berend SmitBerend Smit received an MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1987 and an MSc in Physics both from the Technical University in Delft (the Netherlands). He received in 1990 cum laude PhD in Chemistry from Utrecht University (the Netherlands). He was a (senior) Research Physicists at Shell Research from 1988-1997, Professor of Computational Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 1997-2007.
In 2004 Berend Smit was elected Director of the European Center of Atomic and Molecular Computations (CECAM) Lyon France. Since 2007 he is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley and Faculty Chemist at Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2014 he has been director of the Energy Center at EPFL.
Iscia Clélia VosTeaching & PhD Courses Light as project driver PENS-300 This interdisciplinary course explores the structuring role of light in architectural design, in relation to the environment, materiality, comfort and energy performance. Students develop an exhibition pavilion project based on lighting intentions, using simulation tools, environmental analysis (LCA
Drazen DujicDrazen Dujic is an Associate Professor and Head of the Power Electronics Laboratory at EPFL. He received the Dipl.Ing. and MSc degrees from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the PhD degree from Liverpool John Moores University, UK in 2008. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant with the Faculty of Technical Sciences at University of Novi Sad. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Associate with Liverpool John Moores University. After that he moved to industry and joined ABB Switzerland Ltd, where from 2009 to 2013, he was Scientist and then Principal Scientist with ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden-Dättwil, and from 2013 to 2014 he was R&D Platform Manager with ABB Medium Voltage Drives in Turgi. He joined EPFL in 2014 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. His research interests include the areas of design and control of advanced high power electronic systems and high-performance drives, predominantly for the medium voltage applications related to electrical energy generation, conversion and storage. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 scientific publications and has filed 16 patents. In 2018 he received EPE Outstanding Service Award from European Power Electronics and Drives Association and in 2014 the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Power Electronics. He is Senior Member of IEEE, and serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IET Electric Power Applications. He is Chairman of the Swiss IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Chapter and IEEE PELS R8 Chair.
Xun LiaoI'm a LCA sustainability consultant, focusing on R&D and applications of integrating LCA with traditional corporate ESG reporting and management, as well as bridging the gap between LCA, Supply chain management (SCM) , risk assessment and business sustainability investment and decision-making.
As a Marie Curie PhD fellow in EPFL, I'm working on sustainability (social/economic/environmental) assessment, design and optimization of different biorefinery concepts.
As a sustainability consultant, I'm researching and developing methodologies and tools for the following field:
- Corporate ESG and sustainability investment
-Assess and manage GHG emissions, Water and land, renewable energy, human health, Biodiversity, social issues
-Materiality, CDP report, GRI and other reporting initiatives
-Competitive advantage through investment in sustainability (ESG) programs
- Strategy, Supply chain management and risk assessment within the framework of Life Cycle thinking
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Commodity, Supply chain, Operational risks due to regulatory, physical factors.
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Life cycle costing
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Risk assessment
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Integration of assessment, optimization and management of supply chain, downstream and corporate operational data
I have many years experience in life cycle assessment, with expertise in water database modeling and assessment, energy analysis and life cycle inventory modeling. Worked with various industries, including energy, agri-food, packaging, tire, oil & gas, semi-conductor, pet food, pharmaceutical and textile sectors, for clients such as World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Mondelez, Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Michelin, Bayer, Pfizer, Huntsman, GE, Intel, and many others. Sara BonellaExpertise
Simulation and modelling of condensed phase systems, quantum and classical dynamics and statistical mechanics, adiabatic dynamics for classical polarizable models and first principles simulations, classical charge transport for systems in external magnetic fields.
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Simulation and modelling of condensed phase systems, quantum and classical dynamics and statistical mechanics, adiabatic dynamics for classical polarizable models and first principles simulations, classical charge transport for
Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa CorreiaThroughout my PhD and postdoctoral studies I was trained in world-renowned laboratories and institutions in the United States of America (University of Washington and The Scripps Research Institute). Very early in my scientific career I found out my fascination about protein structure and function. My PhD studies evolved in the direction of immunogen design and vaccine engineering which sparked my interest in the many needs and opportunities in vaccinology and translational research. My efforts resulted in an enlightening piece of work where for the first time, computationally designed immunogens elicited potent neutralizing antibodies. During my postdoctoral studies I joined a chemical biology laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute. In this stage I developed novel chemoproteomics methods for the identification of protein-small molecule interaction sites in complex proteomes. In March 2015, I joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Switzerland as a tenure track assistant professor. The focus of my research group is to develop computational tools for protein design with particular emphasis in applying these strategies to immunoengineering (e.g. vaccine and cancer immunotherapy). The activities in my laboratory focus on computational design methods development and experimental characterization of the designed proteins. Our laboratory has been awarded with 2 prestigious research grants from the European Research Council. Lastly, I have been awarded the prize for best teacher of Life sciences in 2019.
Luciano Nicolas AntoniettiExpertise
Architectural theoryType and typologySuburban territoryInterstitial landscapeRural and agricultural architecture
Co-founder - forme commune atelier d'architecture et paysageScientific Assistant - EAST EPFLResearcher - Rural and Agricultural Architecture Professionals experiences Co-founder - Architect 2023–2025 forme commune atelier d'architectureArchitect 2023–2024 Ville de Fribourg - Développement UrbainLead Architect 2021–2023 AFF ArchitectsArchitect 2019–2020 Capaul&Blumenthal Architects Ed
Cécile HardebolleCurrent work
Responsible information systems (https://go.epfl.ch/digitalethics), ethical skills Jupyter notebooks for education (https://go.epfl.ch/notebooks), digital skills, computational thinking Transversal/professional skillsEngineering design skillsFlipped classrooms Project-based learning
Education PhD | Computer Science 2006 – 2008 Université Paris-Sud XI, France Directed by Prof. Guy Vidal-Naquet MSc | Electrical Engineering, major in Computer and Inf Hannes Markus PeterCurrent work
I am a microbial ecologist and mainly interested in factors shaping bacterial communities and functioning in freshwater ecosystems. I use combinations of field observations, experiments and molecular techniques to test hypotheses regarding the assembly of microbial communities, the influence of environmental variability and relationships between diversity and funcioning. I enjoy working in alpine environments, which are sensitive to climate change and represent excellent model systems.
Teaching
Bastian MarzoliBastian Marzoli is a Swiss architect who graduated from EPFL in 2021. He is the co-founder of detritus., a multiple practice serving as an apparatus for his current endeavors: www.d.etrit.us.With pedagogical experience both inside and outside the academic world, he joined ALICE in 2023 as a studio director.Under the title «MORATORIUM.», his personal research revolves around an imaginative negotiation with pre-existing conditions, both social and spatial, to welcome thriving interactions. Professionals expe Jo François TaillieuTeaching & PhD PhD Students Julien Heil Courses Architectural Tomography AR-129 This course situates the act of drawing as an act of spatial, constructive and contextual investigation. It introduces 2-D sectional drawing as a sociotechnical tool in architecture with a fundamental role in measuring, understanding and imagining complex and situated spatial conditions. Studio BA3 (Taillieu) AR-201(m) A house is the simple topic of this studio. A matter of simple complexity.
Cristian GalpertiExpertise
Control systems design and commissioning, especially involving complex scientific research architectures. Electronics engineering, embedded systems design and programming. Mechanical engineering, servo actuator systems design and commissioning.
Current Work
In charge of the direction of the control systems service of the Swiss Plasma Center
Education Ph.D. in Computer Science | 2005 – 2009 Politecnico di Milano Master degree in Electronics Engineering | 1998
Marcelo Baquero RuizTeaching & PhD PhD Students Michael Goddijn, Cyrille Sepulchre Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Kadi Lyes Roland Courses Fusion and industrial plasma technologies PHYS-632 The course provides an overview of the technologies that are essential for fusion developments and for industrial plasmaapplications, highlighting the synergies between the two fields. The aim is to provide a combined theoretical andexperimental background to the various topics. General physics : mechanics (English
