Anne-Florence Raphaëlle BitbolI was trained in physics, and always had a strong interest in biology. I am broadly interested in understanding biological phenomena in a quantitative way, through physical concepts and mathematical and computational tools. I investigate the relative impacts of optimization and historical contingency in biological evolution, both at the scale of protein sequences and at the scale of microbial populations.Here is my research group website.Curriculum vitae Here is my complete CV. Professional experience:Since
Marcel SalathéEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Laura Espinosa Montalbán, Marouane Toumi, Rohan Singh A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Gianrocco Lazzari, Martin Mathias Müller, Sharada Prasanna Mohanty Cours Digital epidemiology BIO-512 L'épidémiologie est fondamentale pour la médecine et la santé publique. Ce cours débute avec les principes clés de l'épidémiologie, avance vers les techniques de modélisation computationnelle, et finit avec les approches digitales. Les étudiants réaliseront un proto
Auke IjspeertAuke Ijspeert is a full professor at the EPFL, and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). He has a B.Sc./M.Sc. in physics from the EPFL (1995), and a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (1999). He carried out postdocs at IDSIA and EPFL, and at the University of Southern California (USC). He then became a research assistant professor at USC, and an external collaborator at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research institute) in Japan. In 2002, he came back to the EPFL as an SNF assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in October 2009 and to full professor in April 2016. His primary affiliation is with the Institute of Bioengineering, and secondary affiliation with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are at the intersection between robotics, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, and machine learning. He is interested in using numerical simulations and robots to get a better understanding of sensorimotor coordination in animals, and in using inspiration from biology to design novel types of robots and adaptive controllers. (see for instance Ijspeert et al Science 2007, Ijspeert Science 2014, and Nyakatura et al Nature 2019). He is also investigating how to assist people with limited mobility using exoskeletons and assistive furniture. He is regularly invited to give talks on these topics (e.g. TED talk given at TED Global Geneva, Dec 8 2015). With his colleagues, he has received paper awards at ICRA2002, CLAWAR2005, IEEE Humanoids 2007, IEEE ROMAN 2014, CLAWAR 2015, SAB2018, and CLAWAR 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow, member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and for Soft Robotics (2018-2021). He was a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 7 international conferences (BioADIT2004, SAB2004, AMAM2005, BioADIT2006, LATSIS2006, SSRR2016, AMAM2019), and a program committee member of over 50 conferences.
Satyam TiwariEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Subhasis Dehury
Paolo De Los RiosEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les María Li López Bautista, Subhasis Dehury, Lisa Gennai A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Giovanni Salvi, Thomas Petermann, David Gfeller, Cécile Caretta Cartozo, David Morton de Lachapelle, Carlo Maffi, Lucio Floretta, Salvatore Assenza, Duccio Malinverni, Alberto Stefano Sassi, Andrea Martini, Solange Flatt, Adélaïde Alice Mohr, Shiling Liang, Alexandra Shelest, Davide Cois A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Lorenzo Talamanca Cours EDCB seminar series BIOENG-606
Didier TronoAprès des études de médecine à l’Université de Genève et une formation clinique en pathologie, médecine interne et maladies infectieuses à Genève et au Massachusetts General Hospital de Boston, Didier Trono s’engage dans une carrière scientifique au Whitehead Institute du MIT. En 1990, il est recruté par le Salk Institute de San Diego pour lancer un centre de recherche sur le SIDA. Il rentre en Europe sept ans plus tard, avant de prendre en 2004 les rênes de la toute nouvelle faculté des Sciences de la Vie de l’EPFL, dont il orchestre le développement et qu’il dirige jusqu’en 2012. Il participe aujourd’hui activement à la coordination des efforts de la Suisse en vue de l’intégration des nouvelles technologies dans le domaine de la médecine de précision et de la santé personnalisée.
Hannes Markus PeterEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Zhe Liu, Aleksei Dukat, Martin Boutroux, Jingyi Hou, Léa Francomme, Stefan Eckensperger, Lisa Theis A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de David Scheidweiler, Anna Depetris, Jade Brandani, David Touchette Cours Hidden rivers PENS-219 Hidden Rivers vise à répondre au besoin d'une compréhension interdisciplinaire des problématiques liées aux cours d'eau urbains, à travers les relations écologiques, hydrologiques et spatiales que l'on retrouve dans les pays
Giovanni De CesareExpertise
Simulation numérique et modélisation physique d'ouvrages et aménagements hydrauliques; sédimentation des réservoirs et courants de turbidité; gestion de l'alluvionnement des retenues; mesure des écoulements par ulstrason à effet Doppler; travaux d'aménagement fluvial et revitalisation; génie biologique; écomorphologie fluviale; écoulements transitoires rapides dans les conduite sous pression; transfer de technologie et expertise en hydraulique appliquée, constructions et infrastructures hydrauliqu
Dario FloreanoProf. Dario Floreano is director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2010, he is the founding director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics, a research program that brings together more than 20 labs across Switzerland. Prof. Floreano holds an M.A. in Vision, an M.S. in Neural Computation, and a PhD in Robotics. He has held research positions at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, at Caltech/JPL, and at Harvard University. His main research interests are Robotics and A.I. at the convergence of biology and engineering. Prof. Floreano made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics. He served in numerous advisory boards and committees, including the Future and Emerging Technologies division of the European Commission, the World Economic Forum Agenda Council, the International Society of Artificial Life, the International Neural Network Society, and in the editorial committee of several scientific journals. In addition, he helped spinning off two drone companies (senseFly.com and Flyability.com) and a non-for-profit portal on robotics and A.I. (RoboHub.org). Books
Manuale sulle Reti Neurali, il Mulino (in Italian), 1996 (first edition), 2006 (second edition)Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 2000
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, 2008
Flying Insects and Robots, Springer Verlag, 2010
Michaela HirschmannEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Patrick Hirling, Jonathan Petersson, Lucie Scharré Cours Astrophysics III : galaxy formation and evolution PHYS-465 Ce cours décrit les propriétés observationnelles des galaxies ainsi que les processus physiques à l'origine de leur évolutiontels qu'ils sont perçus par les modèles théoriques et numériques. Physique générale : thermodynamique (anglais) PHYS-106(en) Donner à l'étudiant les notions de base nécessaires à la compréhensi
