Christophe van GerreweyChristophe Van Gerrewey (1982) is an architecture critic and theorist, writing about contemporary buildings, their recent histories and intellectual dimensions, and their connections to society, philosophy, art and literature. In particular, he is an expert on the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas as well as on Belgian architecture. He is one of the editors of architecture journal OASE, and of art and culture journal De Witte Raaf. In his writings, architecture is considered as a source of comprehensive and integrated knowledge that pertains to diverse disciplines – a way of looking at, and of understanding, many aspects of the world we live in. This gives his activities an unusually broad and comprehensive aspect, transcending divisions of knowledge.
Since 2015, he is Assistant Professor Tenure Track of architecture theory at EPFL Lausanne. He was trained as an architect-engineer at Ghent University and as a literary theorist at KU Leuven. In Dutch, his mother tongue, he has published three novels and a collection of essays between 2013 and 2017.
Nicola BraghieriNé en 1967 à Milan, Italie. Vit et travaille entre Lausanne et Genève. Études secondaires classiques et diplôme (magistrale) au Polytechnique de Milan avec un mémoire sur l’architecture alpine. En 1999, il obtient un titre de Docteur (PhD) à l’Université de Gênes à l'issue d'une recherche sur la théorie de la tradition. Actuellement, il est professeur à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. Entre 2014 et 2019 a été directeur de la Section d'ARchitecture. Il a enseigné dessin à la Faculté d’Architecture du Polytechnique de Milan. Il a également enseigné projet à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zürich ETH et de Lausanne EPFL entre 2003 et 2008 en tant que professeur invité. En 2006, il a été professeur à la Haute École Européenne d’Architecture Urbaine SSEAU de Naples. Entre 2003 et 2008, il a été professeur à la Faculté d’Architecture de Gênes, titulaire de la chaire de Projet et Théorie du Projet, membre du Conseil des professeurs de l’École de Doctorat. En 2010, il fut nommé professeur (i.v.) d’Entwerfen und Raumgestaltung à l’Université Technique de Darmstadt TUD. Il a enseigné projet et il a dirigé les séminaires "Die Wallpaperarbeiten (Die Stadt als einen großen Wandteppich" et "Patchworkarbeiten (Die Fassade als Flickwerk)", sur la relation entre la figuration urbaine et la décoration d'intérieur. Il a donné des conférences, des cours et des critiques dans plusieurs universités européennes, dont l’Université technique de Hanovre TUH, la Leipzig Fachhochshule LFH, la Hochschule Rapperswil HSR-Z, l’Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH-Z, le Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule d’Aix-la-Chapelle RWTH, l'École d'architecture à Marne-la-Vallée ENSA VT, l’Académie d’Architecture de l’Université de la Suisse italienne AAM.... Il a été membre des commissions du Diplôme, ainsi que du concours pour professeur, et évaluateur de projets de recherche d’importance nationale et européenne. Ses études et ses recherches concernent principalement les thématiques de la figuration architecturale, de la tradition, de la rhétorique et de la tectonique. Pendant ses quinze années d’activité d’enseignement, il a cherché à développer une méthode pédagogique élémentaire qui pose en termes réalistes la relation entre la théorie, la pratique et la poétique dans le projet et la figuration de l'architecture. Nicola Braghieri a publié plusieurs ouvrages théoriques: " Architettura, arte retorica ", " Riflessioni intorno alla costruzione e l’assemblaggio "; " Buoni edifici, meravigliose rovine ", autour de l’œuvre de Louis Kahn; " Case di Legno ", traduit en français et en espagnol. Il a introduit, traduit et adapté " Experiencing Architecture " de Steen Eiler Rasmussen. En 2018 à été publié à Berlin pour Divisare Press "Analogous Postcards", une monographie en cinq livrets sur son travail graphique. Il a rédigé des essais édités dans plusieurs revues scientifiques et des articles publiés dans plusieurs magazines d’architecture. Il a également collaboré avec l’hebdomadaire culturel Diario et a été auteur d’une émission d’architecture sur la radio indépendante Radiopopolare. En 2007, il a rédigé plusieurs articles pour les encyclopédies Motta et Einaudi. Depuis 2008, il est rédacteur du magazine d’architecture Casabella. Parallèlement à son activité d’enseignement et de recherche, il a travaillé en tant qu’architecte indépendant. Il a participé à des concours, fait des projets et réalisé des bâtiments. Il a ouvert son studio à Milan en 1996, après plusieurs années de formations et d’expériences professionnelles en Suisse et en Allemagne. Entre le 1998 et le 2007, il est associé à Valeria Cosmelli et Marlene Dörrie. En 2007, il a été co-fondateur avec son épouse Alessandra Spada de EX_M Architetti (www.ex-m.eu) basé à Milan et de 2013 à Genève. Nicola Braghieri a travaillé ces dernières années sur des projets publics de première importance. Il a participé à de nombreux concours d’architecture en Italie et à l’étranger, a reçu des prix. Par conséquent projeté et réalisait de nombreuses architectures. En 2002, il a gagné le concours international pour un nouveau quartier d’habitations à loyer modéré à Settimo Milanese, construit en 2013, et en 2011 le concours Vandœuvres Esplanade dans le Canton de Genève, actuellement en construction. En 2003 il a été finaliste du concours international pour le Centre de formation professionnelle à Sasso Marconi, en 2007 pour la transformation et pour l’élargissement de la Bibliothèque de Stockholm, en 2012 pour le Pavillon Suisse dans l’Expo 2015 et en 2014 pour un quartier de 2000 habitants à Genève Le Vernets. Ses projets sont publiés dans des volumes collectifs et sur les magazines Domus, Casabella, Area, Archi, d’Architettura, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Werk, Bauen Wohnen, Bauwelt, Wettbewerbe Aktuell, Arkitektur and Arquitectura Viva. Son travail a été l’objet d’une exposition personnelle sous le patronage du Ministère allemand des Affaires Étrangères et aussi dans plusieurs expositions collectives. Il est assez actif, sous plusieurs pseudonymes, dans le domaine des Beaux-Arts numériques. Il produit collages numériques et mécaniques, s'occupe de falsification photographique et contrefaçon postale. Martin VetterliMartin Vetterli was appointed president of EPFL by the Federal Council following a selection process conducted by the ETH Board, which unanimously nominated him.
Professor Vetterli was born on 4 October 1957 in Solothurn and received his elementary and secondary education in Neuchâtel Canton. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich (ETHZ) in 1981, a Master’s of Science degree from Stanford University in 1982, and a PhD from EPFL in 1986. Professor Vetterli taught at Columbia University as an assistant and then associate professor. He was subsequently named full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley before returning to EPFL as a full professor at the age of 38. He has also taught at ETHZ and Stanford University.
Professor Vetterli has earned numerous national and international awards for his research in electrical engineering, computer science and applied mathematics, including the National Latsis Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member the US National Academy of Engineering. He has published over 170 articles and three reference works.
Professor Vetterli’s work on the theory of wavelets, which are used in signal processing, is considered to be of major importance by his peers, and his areas of expertise, including image and video compression and self-organized communication systems, are central to the development of new information technologies. As the founding director of the National Centre of Competence in Research on Mobile Information and Communication Systems, Professor Vetterli is a staunch advocate of transdisciplinary research.
Professor Vetterli knows EPFL inside and out. An EPFL graduate himself, he began been teaching at the school in 1995, was vice president for International Affairs and then Institutional Affairs from 2004 to 2011, and served as dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences in 2011 and 2012. In addition to his role as president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, a position he held from 2013 to 2016, he heads the EPFL’s Audiovisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) since 1995.
Professor Vetterli has supported more than 60 students in Switzerland and the United States in their doctoral work and makes a point of following their highly successful careers, whether it is in the academic or business world.
He is the author of some 50 patents, some of which were the basis for start-ups coming out of his lab, such as Dartfish and Illusonic, while others were sold (e.g. Qualcomm) as successful examples of technology transfer. He actively encourages young researchers to market the results of their work.
David Atienza AlonsoDavid Atienza Alonso is an associate professor of EE and director of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at EPFL, Switzerland. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science and engineering from UCM, Spain, and IMEC, Belgium, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His research interests include system-level design methodologies for multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) servers and edge AI architectures. Dr. Atienza has co-authored more than 350 papers, one book, and 12 patents in these previous areas. He has also received several recognitions and award, among them, the ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award in 2020, Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award in 2018, the IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award in 2018, an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016, the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award in 2013, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2012, and a Faculty Award from Sun Labs at Oracle in 2011. He has also earned two best paper awards at the VLSI-SoC 2009 and CST-HPCS 2012 conference, and five best paper award nominations at the DAC 2013, DATE 2013, WEHA-HPCS 2010, ICCAD 2006, and DAC 2004 conferences. He serves or has served as associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Computers (TC), IEEE Design & Test of Computers (D&T), IEEE Trans. on CAD (T-CAD), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (T-SUSC), and Elsevier Integration. He was the Technical Program Chair of DATE 2015 and General Chair of DATE 2017. He served as President of IEEE CEDA in the period 2018-2019 and was GOLD member of the Board of Governors of IEEE CASS from 2010 to 2012. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM and an IEEE Fellow.
Roger HerschRoger D. Hersch is professor of Computer Science and head of the Peripheral Systems Laboratory at EPFL. He received his engineering degree from ETHZ in 1975, worked in industry from 1975 to 1980, and obtained his PhD degree from EPFL in 1985. He directed the widely known
Visible Human Web Server project
, which offers a number of services for the visualization of human anatomy.
His current research focuses on color reproduction, spectral color prediction models, moiré imaging, and visual document security. Recent achievements include the PhotoProtect technology, which incorporates text as chromatic differences in order to protect identity photographs (Swiss driving license), microstructure imaging, which is used by railways companies (SNCF, RENFE) and festival organizers (Paleo) to print tickets at home and the band moire imaging technology for the protection of security documents.
Christian Ludwig2005 - today: Adjunct Professor at EPFL in the field of Solid Waste Treatment and head of the Chemical Processes and Materials research group (CPM) at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Joint EPFL-PSI Professorship on Solid Waste Treatment. 2000 - today: Head, Group of Chemical Processes and Materials (CPM) at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). In 2009 the LEM unit was closed and the CPM group is now affiliated to the Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory (LBK) of the Energy and Environment Research Division (ENE). Since June 2002 permanent position ("tenure"). 1997 - 1999: Senior Scientist. Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), General Energy Research Department, Element Cycles Section. 1995 - 1997: Research Fellow. Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Department of Resource and Waste Management. 1993 - 1995: Post-doc Fellow. University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources (LAWR). 1990 - 1993: PhD Student. University of Berne, Department of Inorganic, Analytical, and Physical Chemistry. 1989 - 1990: Master Student. University of Berne, Department of Inorganic, Analytical, and Physical Chemistry.
