Michael GraetzelProfessor of Physical Chemistry at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Michael Graetzel, PhD, directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic systems and their use to generate electricity and fuels from sunlight. He invented mesoscopic injection solar cells, one key embodiment of which is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC). DSCs are meanwhile commercially produced at the multi-MW-scale and created a number of new applications in particular as lightweight power supplies for portable electronic devices and in building integrated photovoltaics. They engendered perovskite solar cells (PSCs) which turned into the most exciting break-through in the history of photovoltaics. He received a number of prestigious awards, of which the most recent ones include the RusNANO Prize, the Zewail Prize in Molecular Science, the Global Energy Prize, the Millennium Technology Grand Prize, the Marcel Benoist Prize, the King Faisal International Science Prize, the Einstein World Award of Science and the Balzan Prize. He is a Fellow of several learned societies and holds eleven honorary doctor’s degrees from European and Asian Universities. His over 1500 publications have received some 220’000 citations with an h-factor of 218 (SI-Web of Science) demonstrating the strong impact of his scientific work.
Kevin SivulaEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Odile Louise Andres, Arthur Eliot Bouchez, Benjamin Goldman, Nicolas Johannes Diercks, Aurélie Fanny Marie Célérien, Jiajun Li, Louise Marie Foltzer-De Cian, Melanie Victoria Johanning, Nils William Laurent Golay A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Andrea Gasperini, Pauline Bornoz, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Nhât-Tân Vuong, Yongpeng Liu, Arvindh Sekar, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Rebekah An
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.
Julia SchmaleEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Berkay Dönmez, Yolanda Temel, Nora Bergner, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Henrik Tasman Helmig, Sristi Shamarthi Das A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Ivo Fabio Beck, Roman Pohorsky Cours Physics and chemistry of the atmosphere ENV-320 Ce cours est une introduction aux phénomènes physiques et chimiques gouvernant la dynamique atmosphérique à petite et grande échelle. Le cours est structuré afin de donner une compréhension en profondeur de notre atmos
Jean-François MolinariProfessor J.F. Molinari is the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (http://lsms.epfl.ch) at EPFL, Switzerland. He holds an appointment in the Civil Engineering institute, which he directed from 2013 to 2017, and a joint appointment in the Materials Science institute. He started his tenure at EPFL in 2007, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. He is currently an elected member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation in Division 2 (Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences), and co editor in chief of the journal Mechanics of Materials. J.F. Molinari graduated from Caltech, USA, in 2001, with a M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics. He held professorships in several countries besides Switzerland, including the United States with a position in Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (2000-2006), and France at Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Mechanics (2005-2007), as well as a Teaching Associate position at the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris (2006-2009). The work conducted by Prof. Molinari and his collaborators takes place at the frontier between traditional disciplines and covers several length scales from atomistic to macroscopic scales. Over the years, Professor Molinari and his group have been developing novel multiscale approaches for a seamless coupling across scales. The activities of the laboratory span the domains of damage mechanics of materials and structures, nano- and microstructural mechanical properties, and tribology. Hervé LissekExpertise
Acoustique, audio, electroacoustique, acoustique des salles.Contrôle actif du bruit.Contrôle actif de la réverbération dans les salles.Tests psychoacoustiques.Conception de transducteurs électroacoustiques.Réseaux de transducteurs.Spatialisation.
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Acoustique, audio, electroacoustique, acoustique des salles.Contrôle actif du bruit.Contrôle actif de la réverbération dans les salles.Tests psychoacoustiques.Conception de transducteurs électroacoustiques.Réseaux de transducteurs.Spatialisation
Karim AchouriEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Mahmoud Abouelatta, Hossein Allahverdizadeh, Mustafa Yücel Cours Applied Electromagnetics for Metamaterial Design MICRO-449 This course provides the students with the appropriate electromagnetics foundation to understand, model and design metamaterials, especially two-dimensional electromagnetic and optical structures such as metasurfaces. This course covers concepts that apply to both the microwave and optical regimes. Ingénierie optique (pour
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.
Haomin SunExpertise
I am currently working on turbulent momentum transport in tokamak using both theoretical and numerical methods.
Stephan BrunnerEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Hugo Jean Elie Chkroun, Nicole Vadot, Oraz Anuaruly, Haomin Sun, Isabel Muzio, Fabien Nicolas Jeanquartier A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi, Arnas Volcokas A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Xavier Lapillonne, Thibaut Vernay, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Gabriele Merlo, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Ohana, Moahan Murugappan Cours Plasma instabilities PHYS-736 To complete the theoretical knowledge acquired before the graduate studi
Duccio TestaExpertise
Physique des plasmas pour la fusion nucléaireDéveloppement de modèles mathématiques et numériques pour l'analyse statistique des fluctuations dans des systèmes physiques complexesDéveloppement d'instrumentation de mesure avec procédés de microtechniqueArchéologie de l'époque romaine et préromaine
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Physique des plasmas pour la fusion nucléaireDéveloppement de modèles mathématiques et numériques pour l'analyse statistique des fluctuations dans des systèmes physiques complexesDéveloppement d
