Stefana ParaschoTeaching & PhD PhD Students Jingwen Wang, Gabriel Vallat, Maxence Grangeot, Eleni Maria Skevaki, Wenqian Yang, Megi Sinani Courses Capitalizing on Uncertainty AR-809 SUMMER SCHOOL - Capitalizing on Uncertainty is a 6-day Summer school exploring uncertainty as a productive resource in design and fabrication through lectures, hands-on experiments, and the collaborative design and construction of a full-scale structure in a human-robot fabrication setting. Digital design and making: A criti
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
Jérémy DumoulinExpertise
energy system modelling, electric mobility, solar energy, photovoltaic performance modelling
Andres Osorio SalazarExpertise
Robotics, advanced actuator design, soft actuators, sensor design, embedded systems, human-machine interface architecture, electronic-less control, mechanism design, additive and traditional manufacturing, industrial automation, process control, and fluid robotics.
Current Work
Smart Footwear for Diabetic Foot Care and Ulcer PreventionEvery 20 seconds, a person with diabetes has to face an amputation somewhere in the world. The main risk factor is high plantar pressure combined with foot nephropat
Andrea VezzosiAndrea Vezzosi is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Ursula Rothlisberger at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, EPFL (Switzerland). He earned his Ph.D. in Physics and Nanosciences from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2024, where he investigated spin–orbit coupling and topological states in core–shell semiconductor nanowires. During his doctoral studies, he developed nwkp, an open-source Python library for computing the band structure of core–shell nanowires using
Chenghao XuEducation Bachelor of Engineering | Mechnical Engineering 2016 – 2020 Southern University of Science and Technology, China Master of Science | Robotics 2020 – 2023 Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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
Junsoo KimExpertise
Artificial Muscles, Electrostatic Actuators, Wearable Robotics, Humanoid Robotics
Ludovica LunghiProfessionals experiences Master Thesis Erasmus Traineeship on "Optimization of SiOx/Poly-Si passivating contacts for TOPCon solar cells" 2024–2024 EPFL - PV-Lab Education B.Sc. | Physics 2019 – 2022 Università di Pavia (Italy) M.Sc. | Material Physics 2022 – 2024 Università di Pavia (Italy)
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
Wenchao YueExpertise
Robotics, Medical Mechatronics, Medical Reconfigurable Robots, Soft Machine, Piezo Actuators/Sensors
Brief Biography Wenchao Yue is a Ph.D. candidate in Electronic Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He has received the PhD International Mobility for Partnerships and Collaborations Award (PhD IMPAC Award) 2024, the IEEE ROBIO Best Paper Finalist Award 2024, the Overseas Research Attachment Programme (ORAP Award) 2025, and the Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity (PCKK
Anastasia BolotnikovaIn April 2021, Anastasia Bolotnikova has joined the CIS collaboration grant for research pillar on Intelligent Assistive Robotics. The focus of this project is on development and integration of the robotic solution into an intelligent assistive environment for people with limited mobility, in collaboration with Professor Jamie Paik (RRL) and Professor Auke Ijspeert (BioRob).
Anastasia Bolotnikova received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Tartu, Estonia, in 2017. Later that year, she started working as a robotics researcher at SoftBank Robotics Europe (SBRE). As part of her work contract with SBRE she entered a doctoral program in the University of Montpellier, France. She received the Ph.D degree in Robotics from University of Montpellier in March of 2021. The focus of her doctoral research was on the use of humanoid robot technology for assistance to frail or elderly.
