Matthias LütolfMatthias Lutolf is Full Professor at EPFL’s Institute of Bioengineering, with a cross appointment in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering. Lutolf was trained as a Materials Engineer at ETH Zurich where he also carried out his PhD studies (with Jeffrey Hubbell) that were awarded with an ETH medal. He continued his research training as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Stem Cell Biology (with Helen Blau) at Stanford University. He has served as the Director of the Institute of Bioengineering from 2014 to 2018. Lutolf is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of stem cell bioengineering and tissue engineering. His research program uniquely combines stem cell biology with engineering principles and quantitative thinking. His team, composed of engineers, chemists, physicists, cell and developmental biologists, strives to develop technologies that have true biological and medicinal function and applicability. Lutolf’s work has led to more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific publications, many of which published in highly reputed journals, more than 25 patents, and the commercialization of several products. Current research in the Lutolf lab is focused on the bioengineering of miniature tissues, termed organoids, that are generated from self-organizing stem cells.
Suliana ManleyFrom 2016 Associate professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009-2016 Tenure-track assistant professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006-2009 Post-Doctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2004-2006 Post-Doctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
1999-2004 PhD (Physics) Awarded 06/2004, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
1993-1997 Bachelors (Cum Laude) Physics & Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Arne Seitz04/1996-06/2000 Scientific co-worker at Philipps-University of Marburg, Dep. of Physical Chemistry
07/2000-10/2002 Post Doc at Max-Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology in Hamburg
11/2002-11/2005 Post Doc at European Molecular Biolohy Laboratory (EMBL), Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics Programme
11/2005-03/2009 Staff Scientist at Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL
04/2009- Head of Bioimaging and Optics platforme (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Jürgen BruggerI am a Professor of Microengineering and co-affiliated to Materials Science. Before joining EPFL I was at the MESA Research Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, in Tokyo, Japan. I received a Master in Physical-Electronics and a PhD degree from Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. Research in my laboratory focuses on various aspects of MEMS and Nanotechnology. My group contributes to the field at the fundamental level as well as in technological development, as demonstrated by the start-ups that spun off from the lab. In our research, key competences are in micro/nanofabrication, additive micro-manufacturing, new materials for MEMS, increasingly for wearable and biomedical applications. Together with my students and colleagues we published over 200 peer-refereed papers and I had the pleasure to supervise over 25 PhD students. Former students and postdocs have been successful in receiving awards and starting their own scientific careers. I am honoured for the appointment in 2016 as Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to micro and nano manufacturing technology”. In 2017 my lab was awarded an ERC AdvG in the field of advanced micro-manufacturing.
John MaddocksCitoyen de Grande Bretagne, John Maddocks est né en 1958. Il a obtenu un diplôme en mathématiques en 1978, à l'Université de Glasgow (Ecosse), ainsi qu'un doctorat à l'Université d'Oxford (Angleterre) en 1981. Sa thèse concernait la bifurcation et l'échange de stabilité dans les principes variationnels contraints qui apparaissent en théorie de l'élasticité. Il a ensuite effectué des travaux de recherche à l'Université de Stanford (USA), puis à Oxford, avant de rejoindre l'Université du Maryland (USA) en 1984. Il y est nommé professeur associé en 1989, puis professeur ordinaire en 1993. Il a notamment été chercheur invité à l'Université du Minnesota, du Texas, de Heriot-Watt, d'Oxford, à l'Institut Courant à New York et à l'École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich.
Ses travaux de recherche concernent principalement l'analyse et les techniques computationnelles en mécanique non linéaires.Il a effectué des travaux interdisciplinaires faisant intervenir différents domaines, tels la robotique, la dynamique des satellites et l'étude de macromolécules comme l'ADN. Il est spécialiste de la théorie de la stabilité des systèmes hamiltoniens et des phénomènes de bifurcation dans les problèmes de calcul des variations paramétrés. Plus récemment, il a mis au point des outils de calcul scientifique interactifs qui utilisent des techniques de visualisation avancées.
En juin 1997, il est nommé professeur ordinaire en analyse appliquée, au Département de mathématiques. Il enseigne en particulier l'analyse et des cours plus spécialisés aux ingénieurs et ingénieurs mathématiciens. Il continuera à effectuer des travaux de recherche en mécanique du continu, en techniques de visualisation, en analyse et en calcul scientifique.
