Wouter Richard KarthausTeaching & PhD PhD Students Jillian Rose Love, Estelle Deby, Ester Simkova, Turan Badalli Courses Cellular and molecular biology II BIO-207 This course is aimed to familiarize students with the 3D organization of a eukaryotic cell, its compartmentalization, how cellular compartments communicate together and how a cell communicates with its environment. The related molecular mechanisms will be discussed. Practical - Karthaus Lab BIO-616 Students will learn 1) how organoids c
Ali MeimandiExpertise
Research interests:Analog and digital circuit designBiomedical circuits and systems
Ali Meimandi received B.Sc degree in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology(Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, and M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He is a Research Assistant and doctoral candidate in the BioCMOS Interfaces(BCI) Laboratory at école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.His res
Xurong LiExpertise
Photonic integrated circuits, terahertz optoelectronics, terahertz imaging systems
Xurong Li received B.S. degree from Peking University in 2016. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Prof. Mona Jarrahi's group in 2018 and 2022, respectively, working on terahertz optoelectronics and systems. He continued as a postdoc scholar in the same group from January 2023 to May 2024. Xurong joined the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM) in
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
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
Zihan LiGraduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor’s degree in optics. And now, I am working on LiNbO3 integrated photonic device and related nanofabrication technology.
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
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
Simon HolzerHi, I am Simon Holzer. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering with a focus on microtechnology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) in 2020 and 2022, respectively. I am currently working towards Ph.D. in the Integrated Actuators Laboratory (LAI) at EPFL in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. My research interests lie in the field of soft robotics, artificial muscles, and biomechanics.
Adriano MeleI am a control engineer and plasma scientist at the Swiss Plasma Center of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.I am also Research Topic Coordinator in the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation WorkPackage, for the Research Topic 04: Physics-based machine generic systems for an integrated control of plasma discharge, and an Associate Editor in the Franklin Open journal.In 2022-2023, I have been an Assistant Professor in Automatic Control at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo.Before that, from 2019 to 2021,
