Romain ZuffereyEnseignement et PhD Cours Biologie pour ingénieurs MSE-212 Le cours est une introduction aux sciences de la vie en tant que domaine pluridisciplinaire ayant de multiples connexions avec l'ingénierie des matériaux. Il permettra aux étudiants de trouver dans la biologie une inspiration lors des leur activités dans le domaine des matérieaux. Cellular biology and biochemistry for engineers BIO-105 Cours intégré d'introduction à la biologie cellulaire et la biochimie pour étudiant
Gioele La MannoEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Albert Dominguez Mantes, Xinyi Huang, Laura Lapeña Gil, Alessandro Valente, Luca Fusar Bassini, Hao-An Hsiung, Alireza Gargoorimotlagh, Morgane Alice Storey, Rosan Martine Hans, María Cristina Loureiro Casalderrey, Lada Polyakova A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Alex Russell Lederer, Irina Khven A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Alexandre Coudray, Alex Russell Lederer, Halima Hannah Emilie Schede, Irina Khven Cours Biological data science I: statistical learning
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
Christian SachseEnseignement et PhD Cours Philosophie de la biologie HUM-216 Identifier et comprendre les débats et problèmes centraux en philosophie de la biologie, notamment autour de l'évolution biologique et de l'émergence du vivant. Evaluer et comparer les arguments cruciaux dans ces débats. Synthétiser la discussion et donc formuler et défendre sa propre position. Philosophie des sciences HUM-238 Ce cours propose d'identifier et comprendre les débats et problèmes centraux en philosophi
Prabhu Prasad SwainEducation Integrated M.Sc. (5 year) | Physics (majors)Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and Electronics (minors) 2015 – 2020 UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai
Camille Véronique Bernadette GoemansCamille's research focuses on understanding how antibiotics and non-antibiotic drugs affect the diverse bacteria from the human gut microbiota and how they contribute to dysbiosis and the development of antibiotic resistance. To achieve this goal, she combines systems approaches with molecular microbiology, bacterial genetics and biochemistry.She obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Biomedical Sciences from the UCLouvain, Belgium, after which she completed her PhD (FRIA national fellowship) at th
Théodore BessonExpertise
Développement durableManagement de l'environnementEcologie industrielleBiologieBiochimieEcologie
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En tant que coordinateur de projet à l'Ecole de la Formation Continue, Théodore Besson développe un programme international de formation continue en Ecologie Industrielle, en étroite collaboration avec le Prof. Suren Erkman de l'Université de Lausanne. Ce programme s'adresse tant aux professionels des milieux pluridisciplinaires de l'environnement qu'à des décideurs et top managers, provenant
Stéphane JoostPublications Publications- List of publications
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Marco André Vieira Ruas, Manon Laetitia Pribille, Martine Valérie Besse A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Estelle Rochat, Solange Catherine Gaillard, Oliver Michele Selmoni, Anaïs Ladoy, Annie Sandrine Guillaume A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Sylvie Stucki, Kevin Leempoel, Martí Bosch Padrós, Andrea Salmi Cours Border Forensics PENS-318 Le cours présentera aux étudiants différentes formes de violence liée
Kristina SchoonjansExpertise
Bile acid signalingNutrient sensingIntermediary metabolismMetabolic disorders
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Adrien Faure A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Pan Xu, Ece Yildiz, Nadia Bresciani, Yu Sun, Francesca Pontanari, Alejandro Alonso Calleja A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Mitsunori Nomura, Pan Xu, Katyayanee Neopane, Lucie Camille Chanvillard, Jakob Josef Langer, Bilge Sen Elçi Cours Biologie générale BIOENG-110 Le but du cours est de fournir un aperçu général de la b
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
Johan AuwerxEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Wenyu Liu, Maria Boulougouri, Giacomo Vincenzo Giorgio Von Alvensleben A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Pénélope Andreux, Mitsunori Nomura, Evan Graehl Williams, Hongbo Zhang, Virginija Jovaisaite, Elena Katsyuba, Karim Laurent Gariani, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Hao Li, Peiling Luan, Alexis Bachmann, Mario Romani, Xiaoxu Li, Alessia De Masi, Amélia Lalou A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Serge Thanh Son Ducommun, Laura Lukjanenko, Joanna Ratajczak, Angélique Sato
Maria BrbicMaria Brbic is an assistant professor in computer science at EPFL. Prior to joining EPFL, Maria was a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at Stanford University working with Jure Leskovec. She received her PhD degree from University of Zagreb in 2019, while also researching at Stanford University and University of Tokyo. Her research was awarded with the Fulbright Scholarship, L’Oreal UNESCO for Women in Science Scholarship, Branimir Jernej award for outstanding publication in biology and biomedicine, and Josip Loncar Silver Plaque award for the best doctoral dissertation. She has been named a Rising Star in EECS by MIT in 2021. Her research is focused on developing new machine learning methods and applying her methods to advance biomedical research.
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.
Stewart ColeProfessor Stewart Cole is an international authority in bacterial molecular-genetics and genomics. He has made outstanding contributions in several fields including: bacterial anaerobic electron transport; genome analysis of retroviruses and papillomaviruses; antibiotic resistance mechanisms; and the molecular microbiology of toxigenic clostridia. His studies on isoniazid and multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, together with his pioneering work on the pathogenicity, evolution and genomics of the tubercle and leprosy bacilli, have made him an undisputed leader in the field of mycobacterial research. The findings of his research are of direct relevance to public health and disease-control in both the developing world and the industrialised nations. He has published over 250 scientific papers and review articles, and holds many patents.
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.
Sofia Charlotta OlhedeSofia Olhede is a professor of Statistics at EPFL in Switzerland. She joined UCL prior to this in 2007, before which she was a senior lecturer of statistics (associate professor) at Imperial College London (2006-2007), a lecturer of statistics (assistant professor) (2002-2006), where she also completed her PhD in 2003 and MSci in 2000. She has held three research fellowships while at UCL: UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Springboard fellowship as well as a five-year Leadership fellowship, and now holds a European Research Council Consolidator fellowship. Sofia has contributed to the study of stochastic processes; time series, random fields and networks. Sofia was part of the multi-institutional team that set up the UK national data science institute, the Alan Turing Institute. She organised and served as chair of the science committee that developed the initial 500 000 pounds scientific programme of the institute; peer-reviewing over 100 workshop proposals and hosting over 30. She also chaired the first recruitment wave of the institute hiring 13 data scientists as a multi-university recruitment drive. Sofia was a member of the Royal Society and British Academy Data Governance Working Group, and the Royal Society working group on machine learning. Most recently she was one of 3 commissioners on a law society commission on the usage of algorithms in the justice system.
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