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Alexis Alejandro Sáez Uribe
I obtained my master in earthquake engineering and my civil engineer title at the University of Chile in the year 2014. Prior to joining EPFL in 2019, I worked in the mining industry in Chile and I also travelled around the world for two years.
Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann
Etienne Thalmann is a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL's Micromechanical and Horological Design Laboratory (Instant-Lab). His research focuses on the design of compliant mechanisms. He completed his PhD in the same laboratory in 2020, on the topic of flexure pivot oscillators for mechanical watches. Previously, he received the MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from EPFL in 2015 and conducted his Master’s thesis in control systems at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), for which he was awarded the Hilti Mechatronic Prize.