Jérémy DumoulinExpertise
energy system modelling, electric mobility, solar energy, photovoltaic performance modelling
Virginia CarnevaliExpertise
Theoretical condensed matter physics: theory and simulations of structural, electronic, magnetic and optical properties (Quantum ESPRESSO), ab-initio molecular dynamics (CP2K), and Kinetic Monte Carlo codes; automate Quantum ESPRESSO workflows and high-throughput calculations (AFLOWÏ€); generation of tight-binding hamiltonians, transport properties, and data analysis (PAOFLOW).Materials for photovoltaic: Pb- and Sn-based organic perovskites; investigation and improvement of the HTL-ETL interaction
Sara BonettiExpertise
Ecohydrological and geomorphological modeling
Education PhD | Civil and Environmental Engineering 2018 – 2018 Duke University
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Benjamin Andre De Blois Kargere, Qiming Sun, Frédéric Laurent Lardet, Taiqi Lian, Felix Bauer Courses Ecohydrological modeling ENV-411 This course provides the theoretical basis for understanding and modeling the interactions between the hydrologic cycle, vegetation, soil, climate, and human society. Hydrology
Christian Michael WolffTeaching & PhD PhD Students Chiara Ongaro, Kliner Vojtech, Jonas Lasse Diekmann, Hilal Aybike Can, Yu-Hsuan Lai Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay, Mostafa Othman
Awards ZKS/EPFL PRIZE, Award in Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation 2025
Maria Anna HecherMaria Anna Hecher obtained her PhD degree at the University of Graz, Austria. In her recent research, she investigated regional energy transitions from a socio-technical perspective. She put a special focus on technology adoption decisions to derive strategies and policy recommendations fostering sustainable transitions. Therefore, she pursued an interdisciplinary approach and combined environmental as well as social science methods (i.e. MFA, ABM, LCA, expert interviews, surveys). After her PhD, she had the chance to put her knowledge into practice and managed a three-year programme on regional sustainabiltiy projects in an energy region in Styria, Austria. In cooperation with local decision-makers, public authorities, schools, companies and the local population, she realized projects in the field of renewable energy and sustainable mobility. Recently, she worked as a consultant in an energy agency for and in the city of Graz. She managed projects in the field of e-mobility and spatial energy planning collaborating with public authorities, energy suppliers, city planners and research institutions. Her work in recent years, has mostly been performed in an inter- and transdisciplinary setting integrating knowledge from different scientific disciplines and fields of practice at the interface between research, politics and society.
Marie Amélie Camille CourtantExpertise
Photovoltaics, advanced crystalline silicon solar cells, perovskite and multi-junction ultra-high efficiency devices, solar module technology and reliability, building integrated photovoltaics, energy systems and storage, specialty detectors with thin and thick film absorber.
Mission
PV‑Lab’s major mission is to advance photovoltaic science, technology, as well as its grid integration, as a cornerstone of the global energy transition, by combining scientific excellence with impactful innovation. A
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
Mirjana Dimitrievska2020 – present ScientistÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow (dual appointment) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, USA
2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow (dual appointment) NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA 2013 – 2016 Marie Curie PhD Fellowship Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Barcelona, Spain2015 Guest researcher (two months)ABENGOA Solar, Seville, Spain 2015 Guest researcher (two months)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom 2014 Guest researcher (two months)Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain
2013 Guest researcher (four months)Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Berlin, Germany
2010 – 2013 Research Assistant University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
