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
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
Paul Robert GuhennecMy research focuses on the usage of computational methods for architectural history and their epistemological implications. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL's Digital Humanities Laboratory, where I recently finished my doctoral dissertation on Venice's urban and architectural history, entitled «The Skin of Venice: A Computational Approach to the City's Urban Structure».
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•
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
Nino David Julian JordanExpertise
Environmental policy and governance, in particularly related to embodied environmental impacts.
Current Work
Nino is currently working on the "Sustainable and Resilient Energy for Switzerland" project.
Nino has been addressing environmental challenges since 2010, starting with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and later working with the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.He earned degrees in political science and international relations from the University of Bremen.
Aurélie Anne-Laure TerrierAn architect and archaeologist, Aurélie Terrier has been developing for more than two decades a singular expertise at the interface of architectural archaeology, digital heritage and the history of ancient built environments. Her research focuses on ancient and medieval architecture, architectural archaeology, the reuse of building materials, issues related to construction sites, new technologies and digital humanities, as well as the valorisation and restoration of heritage. Trained in architecture at the
Pedro Correa FernandezPedro Correa Fernández is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Before joining GSAPP, he was an adjunct professor at the Architecture School of Universidad Católica de Chile where he taught seminars and lectures on architecture history and related epistemological, aesthetic, and political issues. His current work examines the mediations between technical knowledge, artisanal crafts, and global industrial capitalism in early nineteenth-century Latin America.Pedro holds an architecture degre
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.
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