Olivier SchneiderAprès une thèse en physique des particules à l'Université de Lausanne, soutenue en 1989, Olivier Schneider rejoint le LBL, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Californie), pour travailler sur l'expérience CDF au Tevatron de Fermilab (Illinois), d'abord au bénéfice d'une bourse de chercher débutant du Fonds National Suisse pour la Recherche Scientifique, puis comme post-doc au LBL. Il participe à la construction et à la mise en service du premier détecteur de vertex au silicium fontionnant avec succès auprès d'un collisionneur hadronique, détecteur qui a permis la découverte du sixième quark, appelé "top". Dès 1994, il revient en Europe et participe à l'expérience ALEPH au grand collisionneur électron-positon du CERN (Genève), comme boursier puis comme titulaire d'un poste de chercheur au CERN. Il se spécialise en physique des saveurs lourdes. En 1998, il est nommé professeur associé à l'Université de Lausanne, puis professeur extraordinaire à l'EPFL en 2003, et enfin professeur ordinaire à l'EPFL en 2010. Ayant participé depuis 1997 à la préparation de l'expérience LHCb au collisionneur LHC du CERN, entrée en fonction à fin 2009, il en analyse maintenant les données. Il contribue aussi depuis 2001 à l'exploitation des données enregistrées par l'expérience Belle au laboratoire KEK (Tsukuba, Japon). Ces deux expériences étudient principalement les désintégrations de hadrons contenant un quark b, ainsi que la violation de CP, c'est-à-dire le non-respect de la symétrie entre matière et antimatière.
Guido HaefeliEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Federico Ronchetti, Gauri Napoletano A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Carina Trippl Cours Particle detection PHYS-440 Introduction des différentes interactions des particules dans la matière. Différentes techniques de détection comme scintillateurs, détecteurs à gas, silicium, et détecteurs pour identification de particules.
Lesya ShchutskaEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Elena De Santis, Yiyang Ding, Pierre Mayencourt, Spencer Collaviti, Raphaël van Laak, Zhibin Yang, Vasilisa Guliaeva, Anni Kauniskangas, Valerii Kholoimov A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Mascellani Anna, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Paul De Bryas Cours Particle physics II PHYS-416 Ce cours vise à familiariser les étudiants avec les principaux concepts de la physique des particules, en établissant un lie
Roberto CastelloRoberto Castello is a senior scientist and group leader at the EPFL Laboratory of Solar Energy and Building Physics. Physicist by training, he has extensive experience in collecting, classifying and interpreting large datasets using advanced data mining techniques and statistical methods. He received his MSc (2007) in Particle Physics and PhD (2010) in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Torino. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Belgian National Research Fund (2011-2014) and at the CERN Experimental Physics Department (2015-2017) as a research fellow and data scientist. He is primary author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and he presented at major international conferences in the high energy physics domain.
In 2018 he joined the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) to work on data mining and Machine Learning techniques for the built environment and renewable energy. His main research interests are: spatio-temporal modeling of renewable energy potential, energy consumption forecasting techniques, anomaly detection, and computer vision techniques for automated classification in the built environment.
He leads the group of Urban Data Mining, Intelligence and Simulation at LESO-PB and he is a member of the NRP75 Big Data project (HyEnergy) of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is a member of the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research (SCCER) and deputy leader of the working group on Leveraging Ubiquitous Energy Data. He has served as a scientific committee member, workshop organizer and speaker at international conferences (ICAE 2020, Applied Machine Learning Days 2019 and 2020, CISBAT 2019 and 2021 and SDS2020).
Since 2017 he is member of the Geneva 2030 Ecosystem network, promoting the United Nations agenda towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Aravindhan VenkateswaranEnseignement et PhD Cours Projet de master en physique PHYS-599(b) L'étudiant·e réalise un projet de recherche en physique en relation directe avec les scientifiques d'un laboratoire ou en entreprise.
Luis Miguel Garcia MartinEnseignement et PhD Cours Particle physics: the flavour frontiers PHYS-471 Ce cours présentera les aspects expérimentaux de la physique des saveurs, principalement dans le secteur des quarks mais aussi dans celui des leptons, et leur rôle dans le développement du modèle standard de la physique des particules. Projet de master en physique PHYS-599(b) L'étudiant·e réalise un projet de recherche en physique en relation directe avec les scientifiques d'un laboratoire ou en entre
Andrea MerliEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Spencer Collaviti
Christophe SalzmannEnseignement et PhD A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Damien Perritaz, Evgeny Bogdanov, Wissam Halimi Cours Automatique et commande numérique ME-326 Ce cours inclut la modélisation et l'analyse de systèmes dynamiques, l'introduction des principes de base et l'analyse de systèmes en rétroaction, la synthèse de régulateurs dans le domain fréquentiel et dans l'espace d'état, et la commande de systèmes discrets avec une approche polynomiale. Control systems + TP ME-321 Ce cours débu
Katharina MüllerEducation Master's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology | 2023 – 2023 University Heidelberg Bachelor's degree | 2020 – 2020 University Heidelberg
Jean-Marie Drezet1992-1996: travail de thèse au Laboratoire de Métallurgie Physique sous la direction du Prof. Michel Rappaz, http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?display=detail&nr=1509 1997-2000: projet EMPACT (European Modelling Programme for Aluminium Casting Technologies) 2001-2004: projet VIRCAST (European Virtual Casting) 2005-2006: projet Etude du sciage des barres à laminer (Alcan Fonds) 2005-2006: projet WelAIR (Welding of Airframes, EADS) 2005-2008: soudage faisceau d'électrons des Cu-Cr-Zr (CEA, France) 2006-2008: soudage laser des Al-Li (EADS, France) 2008-2011: co-direction avec le Prof. A. Nussbaumer de la thèse de C. Acevedo sur l'influence des contraintes residuelles sur le desgin en fatigue des joints tubulaires soudés, http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=5056 2007-2011: co-direction avec le Prof. J.-F. Molinari de la thèse de K. Shahim sur la dilatation ventriculaire dans l'hydrocéphalie à pression normale (S. Momjian, HU-Genève et R. Sinkus, ESPCI-Paris), http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=5191 2008-2012: co-direction avec le Prof. M. Rappaz de la thèse de M. Sistaninia sur la simulation de la fissuration par modèles granulaires (Projet CCMX-MERU) 2010-2014: direction avec le Prof. M. Rappaz de la thèse de N. Chobaut sur la simulation des contraintes lors de la trempe de pièces épaisses en alliage d'aluminium à durcissement structural (Projet CCMX-MERU) 2011-2015: direction avec le Prof. H. Van Swygenhoven-Moens de la thèse de P. Schloth sur l'étude de la précipitation lors de la trempe de pièces épaisses en alliage d'aluminium à durcissement structural (Projet CCMX-MERU) Qiucheng XuExpertise
- Operando Water and Ion Transport: I pioneered operando high-energy X-ray scattering and fluorescence (WAXS/SAXS/XRF) to directly visualize water and ion transport in membrane–electrode assemblies. These studies revealed how water movement, flooding, and salt formation govern degradation in CO/CO2 electrolysis, establishing the dynamic transport mechanisms in confined electrochemical environments. (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2025; Joule 2024; Nat. Catal. 2023)2. Design of Membrane-Electrode Interface: I
Jan Sickmann HesthavenProf. Hesthaven received an M.Sc. in computational physics from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in August 1991. During the studies, the last 6 months of 1989 was spend at JET, the european fusion laboratory in Culham, UK. Following graduation, he was awarded a 3 year fellowship to begin work towards a Ph.D. at Riso National Laboratory in the Department of Optics and Fluid Dynamics. During the 3 years of study, the academic year of 1993-1994 was spend in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and three 3 months during the summer of 1994 in Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of New Mexico. In August 1995, he recieved a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis from the Institute of Mathematical Modelling (DTU). Following graduation in August 1995, he was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Scientific Computing and was approinted Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. In December of 1996, he was appointed consultant to the Institute of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering(ICASE) at NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC). As of July 1999, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, in September 2000 he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, as of July 2001 he was awarded a Manning Assistant Professorship, and in March 2002, he was awarded an NSF Career Award. In January 2003, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics with tenure and in May 2004 he was awarded Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences (the highest award given for teaching excellence in all sciences at Brown University). He was promoted to Professor of Applied Mathematics as of July 2005. From October 2006 to June 2013, he was the Founding Director of the Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV) at Brown University. As of October 2007, he holds the (honorary) title of Professor (Adjunct) at the Technical University of Denmark. In November 2009, he successfully defended his dr.techn thesis at the Technical University of Denmark and was rewarded the degree of Doctor Technices -- the highest academic distinction awarded based on ... substantial and lasting contributions that has helped to move the research area forward and penetrated into applications. As grant Co-PI he served from Aug 2010 to June 2013 as Deputy Director of the Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), the newest NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. After having spend his entire academic career at Brown University, Prof Hesthaven decided to pursue new challenges and joined the Mathematics Institute of Computational Science and Engineering (MATHICSE) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in July 2013. In March 2014 he was elected SIAM Fellow for contributions to high-order methods for partial differential equations.
Mohamed FarhatM. Farhat was born in Casablanca in 1962 (Moroccan citizen). He graduated at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Hydraulique et de Mécanique de Grenoble (France. He joined The LMH laboratory in 1986 as research assistant. He completed in 1994 a Ph.D. thesis on Cavitation. He joined the R&D department of Hydro-Quebec in Montréal (Canada) in 1995 where he was in charge of several research projects in the areas of production and transportation of hydropower and mainly the monitoring of large hydro turbines. Since 2001, he is senior scientist at the LMH laboratory, head of the cavitation group. He is also lecturer in Master and Doctoral programs. He is member of the Doctoral Committee in Mechanics.
Dominique BonvinDominique Bonvin is Professor and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory of EPFL. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zürich, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He worked in the field of process control for the Sandoz Corporation in Basel and with the Systems Engineering Group of ETH Zürich. He joined the EPFL in 1989, where his current research interests include modeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems. He served as Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory for the periods 1993-97, 2003-2007 and again since 2012, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1995-97 and Dean of Bachelor and Master Studies at EPFL for the period 2004-2011.
Marco PicassoExpertise
Computational Science and Engineering
Mission
I am teaching analysis and numerical analysis for engineers and mathematicians at bachelor and master levels.My research pertains to the numerical simulation of complex physical systems with partial differential equations.Here is some bibliometry: Google Scholar, Research Gate, Orcid, here is my most recent CV. Ongoing research projects: - Numerical simulation of aluminium electrolysis, collaboration with RioTinto LRF lab, Ycoorsystems SA and Jacques
