Athanasios NenesTeaching & PhD PhD Students Berkay Dönmez, Ernest Abboud Past EPFL PhD Students Paraskevi Georgakaki, Lucile Ricard Courses Atmospheric processes: from cloud to global scales ENV-407 The main objective is to present important atmospheric processes from the local to global scales. The course will start with cloud processes, continue to synoptic phenomena like extratropical cyclones and fronts, to finally cover numerical modeling at the regional and global scales. Introduction to environme
Tara HabibiCurrent Work
SafeShore ProjectPrincipal Investigator Climate change will lead to significant sea level rise and more frequent, intense storm surges. These developments pose severe risks to coastal regions, threatening human lives, cultural heritage, and economic stability. Conventional shoreline protection methods, such as seawalls and armour blocks, have proven effective. However, their reliance on heavy concrete makes them slow to construct and environmentally unsustainable. To address these challenges, t
Konstantinos KarapiperisKostas Karapiperis is an Assistant Professor at EPFL directing the Data-Driven Mechanics Laboratory (LMD). His research lies at the intersection of mechanics, multiscale modeling, and data science, with applications ranging from geomaterials to structural materials. Prior to EPFL, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zürich, supported by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship. He holds a PhD in Applied Mechanics and a Minor in Applie
David Michael Volpe RuggieroTeaching & PhD PhD Students Ömer Faruk Behçet, Elias Merhi, Enrico Pinelli, Ahmad Abdulrahman Ahmad Majdouba, Muhammad Mahmood Mohi Ud Din Courses Reinforced concrete structures CIVIL-323 This course introduces the student to the behaviour and design of reinforced concrete structures. The student will learn the principles of analysis of reinforced concrete and how to design common concrete elements including columns, beams, and slabs. Reinforced concrete structures - advanced topics
Savvas SaloustrosEducation PhD | Construction Engineering 2017 – 2017 UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain MSc | Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC) 2013 – 2013 University of Padova, Italy & UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain Diploma | Civil Engineering 2012 – 2012 National Technical University of Athens, Greece Professionals experiences Co-founder & Board Member 2019–2019 FENECStructural Engineer 2019–2019 Windmill Structural Constultants, Barcel
Michaela HirschmannTeaching & PhD PhD Students Patrick Hirling, Jonathan Petersson, Lucie Scharré Courses Astrophysics III : galaxy formation and evolution PHYS-465 Galaxy formation & evolution is about studying how galaxies in our Universe come into existence, how they evolve and what shapes their properties. This course describes the observational facts of galaxies and the various processes of galaxy evolution as seen from theoretical/numerical models. General physics : thermodynamics (English) P
Julie Nathalie S GheysenProfessionals experiences PhD student 2018–2022 Université Catholique de Louvain
Teaching & PhD Courses Materials MSE-171 Introduction course of material science applied to usual building materials, especially concrete and metals. Description of their fabrication, mechanical and thermal properties and use in construction. Mechanical behaviour of materials MSE-234 This course provides an introduction to the mechanical behaviour, the processing, the structure and life-cycle o
Elisabeth AgoritsasExpertise
=> See my personal homepage for more content https://eagoritsas.wordpress.com.Statistical physics of classical disordered systems, with focus on specific classes of models:disordered elastic interfaces and random manifolds,mesoscopic elasto-plastic models (spatially-resolved and effectively mean-field versions),mean-field description of structurally disordered systems (e.g. glasses) in infinite dimensions,continuous random perceptron model.1D Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and its encompassing unive Rosane Moura Dos Santos BarrettinoEducation Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology | "Development of a Novel Electrically Conductive FlameRetardant Bio-based Thermoplastic Polyurethane" 2012 – 2015 Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy Master of Science in Engineering | “Preparation and Characterization of ThermoplasticElastomer Micro and Nanocomposites with Modify Tribology Properties†2009 – 2011 University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Manno, Switzerland. BSc in Che
Daryl Yee Wei LiangIncoming Assistant Professor of Electrical and Microengineering (March 2023)
Andrew James SontaExpertise
Human-building interaction, building energy, occupant behavior, sustainable design and planning, walkability, network analysis, machine learning, urban informatics, social systems.
Andrew Sonta is a tenure track assistant professor of sustainable civil engineering at EPFL. He directs the ETHOS Lab: Engineering and Technology for Human Oriented Sustainability. ETHOS is an interdisciplinary research group focused on using data-driven and computational tools to create interventions in the built envir
Mats Julius StensrudTeaching & PhD PhD Students Ignacio Gonzalez Perez, Gellért Géza Perényi, Lorenzo Gasparollo, Julien David Laurendeau Past EPFL PhD Students Matias Janvin, Amit Sawant Courses Causal thinking MATH-352 This course will give a unified presentation of modern methods for causal inference. We focus on concepts, and we will present examples and ideas from various scientific disciplines, including medicine, computer science, engineering, economics and epidemiology. Probability and statistics (
Olga FinkTeaching & PhD PhD Students Han Sun, Leandro Von Krannichfeldt, Keivan Faghih Niresi, Zepeng Zhang, Vinay Sharma, Chenghao Xu, Raffael Pascal Theiler, Kevin Antonio Steiner, Sergei Garmaev, Amaury Wei Past EPFL PhD Students Ismail Nejjar, Mengjie Zhao Courses Data Science for infrastructure condition monitoring CIVIL-332 The course will cover the relevant steps of data-driven infrastructure condition monitoring, starting from data acquisition, going through the steps pre-processing of real
Du WenEducation PhD | Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering 2020 – 2023 The University of Tokyo MEng | Master of Engineering, Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics 2016 – 2019 Xi’an Jiaotong University Bsc | Bachelor of Engineering 2012 – 2016 Xi’an Jiaotong University
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
Parmenion MavrikakisExpertise
Computational electromagnetics, integral equations, finite element analysis, metasurfaces, photonics, plasmonics and microwaves.
Current Work
Developing a C++ code for the modeling of light scattering in layered media with the surface integral equation method.
I am a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering Department (EDEE) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM), part of the Microengineering Department (IEM) at EPFL. M
Mirko MusaExpertise
Hydraulic engineering, experimental research, sediment transport, morphodynamics, river mechanics, hydropower, hydrokinetic energy, renewable energy
Mirko Musa is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Hydraulic Engineering within the Institute of Civil Engineering at EPFL. He directs the STREEM Lab (Sustainable River Engineering, Energy, and Morphodynamics). STREEM Lab integrates laboratory experiments, data analysis, and analytical modeling to advance water power technologies, including hydropowe
Sangwoo KimSangwoo Kim is set to join EPFL as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in September 2023. Prior to his appointment at EPFL, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his graduate degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his research delved into the relationships between statistics, geometry, and mechanical states in cellular matters. Currently, his research focus on fundamental understanding of biological and living systems, as well as the study of soft and active matter employing principles from mechanics and physics. His research interests encompass embryonic development, tissue morphogenesis, structure and mechanics of soft materials, inherent structure of amorphous materials, and non-equilibrium dynamics of active matter.