Summer Saud IslamSummer Islam, ARB AADipl (hons) is a doctoral fellow at the RIOT lab, EPFL ENAC-IA, where her research project ‘Ground Work’ explores the potential for a decarbonised built environment which prioritises ecosystems over industry. Her work investigates the political ecology of construction materials, with a particular focus on the environmental implications of scaling the use of regenerative materials in housing retrofit. She is also an architect and director of Material Cultures, an interdisciplinary not-for
Ianina AltshulerEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Haohua He, Anna Dukat, Laureen Sarah Ahlers, Anastasiia Kosolapova, Grace Emma Marsh Cours Biology ENV-103 Ce cours aborde les principes fondamentaux régissant la vie et le monde vivant. Les sujets comprennent la diversité des organismes vivants, la biologie cellulaire, la génétique, l'évolution et l'écologie. Il fournit une base en biologie, favorisant la pensée critique et les compétences analytiques EESS - CESS Seminar Course - option 1 (FAL
Nino David Julian JordanExpertise
Environmental policy and governance, in particularly related to embodied environmental impacts.
Current Work
Nino is currently working on the "Sustainable and Resilient Energy for Switzerland" project.
Nino has been addressing environmental challenges since 2010, starting with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and later working with the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.He earned degrees in political science and international relations from the University of Bremen.
Ben Ori GitaiExpertise
Dr.Ben Gitai est un chercheur et enseignant qui conjugue paysage, urbanisme, géographie et architecture dans une démarche pluridisciplinaire. Ses travaux académiques l'ont conduit dans les plus prestigieuses institutions suisses et françaises, notamment l'ETH Zurich et l'EPFL, ainsi qu'à l'Université de Stanford aux États-Unis.Ses recherches interrogent la transformation des espaces sous l'effet des dynamiques sociales, politiques, économiques et des rapports de pouvoir. Il mobilise l'architecture
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.
Paolo BenettinI was born in Padova, Italy, in 1986. After high school, I started the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Padova (Bachelor and Master), where I followed the 'soil protection' curriculum. During my Master studies I spent a semester as Erasmus student at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) to follow courses in Hydrology. After graduation, I decided to bring my education further and I started a Ph.D. at the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Padova. My Ph.D. thesis focused on hydrologic transport and travel time distributions at the catchment scale. My contribution to the subject included both new theoretical formulations and extensive numerical applications to real catchments. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). Since I arrived at EPFL as post-doc in 2015, I started being involved in field and experimental activities, which allowed me to learn about practical experimental problems. In 2017 I had the opportunity to by hired by the ECHO laboratory as a permanent scientist, conducting research in the field of catchment hydrology.
Natacha PascheDr. Natacha Tofield Pasche est une limnologiste, qui s'intéresse particulièrement aux processus biogeochimiques dans les lacs. Ingénieure en Environnement de l'EPFL, elle a réalisé son doctorat sur le cycle des nutriments et la production de méthane au lac Kivu . Au Rwanda de 2009 à 2013, elle a créé un programme de surveillance pour limiter les impacts potentiels de l'extraction du méthane dans le lac Kivu. Depuis le septembre 2013, elle est l'Adjointe du Directeur du Centre de Limnologie à l'EPFL. Elle a coordonné la science, la logistique des campagnes de mesures et les finances de deux larges programmes de recherche. Le premier visait à comprendre la vie sous la glace lacustre face au réchauffement climatique, et le deuxième avait pour but de cartographier la qualité des eaux des lacs avec des images aériennes novatrices. En tant que cheffe de projet, elle a piloté la création de la plateforme LéXPLORE pour des mesures innovantes sur le Léman et coordonne les différents projets de recherche.
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