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•
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
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
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
Baraka Jean-Claude MunyakaEducation Doctorate | Industrial & Systems Engineering 2021 – 2021 University of Pretoria Masters | Insdustrial Engineering 2014 – 2014 Durban University of Technology Professionals experiences Industrial Engineer Consultant 2012–2022 Tsanyela, XIG Minerals, Volticor Enterprises, Durban; Snackworks, Durban; Microfinish Manufacturing, Durban; Nampak Flexible, Durban; Emcor Flexible, CapeTown;Industrial Engineer 2009–2010 Smith’s Plastics Ltd, Durban
Teaching &
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
Yves KazemiTeaching & PhD Courses Urban Green&Blue infrastructure and global warming ENV-462 The course introduces the concept of green and blue urban infrastructure in the context of global warming. It presents knowledge, concepts, and methods for planning, developing, and maintaining an effective network of green and blue infrastructure in urban areas.
Emmanuelle Brigitte Marie DavidMission
After six years leading the EPFL Space Center — spanning teaching, student associations, research, and innovation — I have a grounded understanding of what makes EPFL exceptional and where it faces real complexity. I want to bring that perspective into institutional governance.Constructive by nature. I am solution-oriented, genuinely enjoy working across large and diverse stakeholder groups, and know how to navigate the constraints of a complex organization while keeping things moving forward.A brid
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
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
Jessica Berit VerheijI am a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Landscape Development (LAND). My research focuses on spatial conflicts in growing cities, mainly in relation to urban greening and densification. I am interested in understanding the political processes behind the implementation of sustainability goals and the role of planning and property in urban development.I hold a PhD degree in Geography from the University of Bern. In my PhD research, I analysed how cities can combine urban greening with densificatio
Marta Brkovic DodigDr. Marta Brković Dodig is a scientist at the Land Lab. Her research landscape unfolds across a spectrum of interests:Sustainable and learning environments designParticipation, co-design, and gamesBaukultur and built environment/architecture educationAgency and activism in architecture and urbanismSpatial research methods and research by designMarta holds a PhD in Architecture from the School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield, UK. Her doctoral dissertation, "Sustainable Schools as the Third Teach
Justine Brigitte Marie RomanEducation Master | Engineer Diploma with a specialization in civil engineering 2006 – 2010 Hautes Etudes d'Ingénieur (HEI), Lille - France Post Master Degree | Renewable Energy 2015 – 2016 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris · France Professionals experiences Project Manager in Innovation and Sustainable Building 2018–2026 EPFL Fribourg Campus, SwitzerlandProject Manager in Environmental Performance of Buildings 2017–2018 OASIIS - Paris, FranceConsulta
Gabriele ManoliTeaching & PhD PhD Students Yuxin Yin, Marc Duran Sala, Guo-Shiuan Lin Courses Adventure on Planet B PENS-231 This course will take students on a cosmic journey and then back to Earth to reflect on planetary challenges and their solutions. Climate and water sensitive urban design ENV-526 This project-based course introduces students to the field of urban climate and hydrology, with a focus on nature-based solutions for the design of climate and water resilient cities. Soi
Aengus Killian CollinsAengus Collins works primarily on the policy challenges posed by emerging technologies and on concrete applications of the IRGC’s risk governance framework. He joined the IRGC in May 2019 from the World Economic Forum, where as Head of Global Risks he was lead author of the annual Global Risks Report. Previously, he worked as Country Forecast Director at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, focusing in particular on political and economic risks in the euro zone, the UK and Turkey. Aengus Collins graduated from Trinity College Dublin and subsequently obtained postgraduate degrees in European Economic and Public Affairs (MEconSc) and Philosophy (MA).
Michaël AklinExpertise
Environmental policy and economics, energy policy and economics, sustainable development, public policy analysis, political economy
PhD, New York UniversityMA, University of EssexLicence, Graduate Institute of International StudiesMichaël Aklin is Associate Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at EPFL, which he joined in 2023 and where he holds the Chair of Policy & Sustainability. He is also co-managing director of Enterprise for Society (E4S), a center jointly founded by EPFL, IMD
