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•
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
Matteo FaveroExpertise
Dynamic thermal comfort, Indoor environmental quality, Occupant-centric modelling, Human-building interaction, Multi-domain environmental exposure, Building physics, Building performance simulation, Thermal flexibility, Climate-adaptive buildings, Multilevel modelling, Statistical thinking, Causal thinking, Simulated-data experimentation.
Matteo Favero is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is currently a member of the Human-Oriented Bu
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
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.
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
Charlotte GrossiordTeaching & PhD PhD Students Maxwell Zachary Wallace Bergström, Julie Anne Botzas-Coluni, Cross Jacob Heintzelman, Léo César Bernard Jacquat, Céline Joanna Sijlmans Past EPFL PhD Students Eugénie Mas, Laura Mekarni, Janisse Deluigi, Thibaut Juillard Courses Applied ecology ENV-422 The course will provide the ecological systems knowledge needed to question applied sustainability solutions. We willcritically assess the complexity of current environmental issues, illustrating basic ecological
Xiao-Shan YapExpertise
Dr. Xiao-Shan Yap is Lead Senior Researcher at EPFL Space Center, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Switzerland and affiliated as a guest Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Yap is pioneering a scientific research agenda on 'earth-space sustainability' to specify opportunities and challenges for a sustainable planetary future as anthropogenic activities expand into outer space. While space-based technolo
Zhujing ZhangEducation Master of Science in Building Technology | 2020 – 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Architecture | 2016 – 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science | 2011 – 2015 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Teaching & PhDComfort and architecture: sustainable strategies This class offers an overview about comfort evaluations in architectural design and suggests passive and low-energy strategies suited to ensu
Zhengmao LuExpertise
liquid-vapor phase change, thermofluids, micro/nanoenegineering
Education Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering 2014 – 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. | Mechanical Engineering 2012 – 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. | Mechanical Engineering 2008 – 2012 Tsinghua University, Beijing
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Igor Reshetnikov, Gautier Rouaze, Takehiro Shiraishi, Farkhondeh Khodabandeh, Léo Mutschler Courses Liqui
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
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
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
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
