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Symmetry in biology

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Denis Duboule

Denis Duboule is born in 1955 and is both swiss and french national. He studied biology at the university of Geneva, where he obtained a PhD in mammalian embryology in 1984. He then spent 10 years abroad, first as a group leader in the medical faculty in Strasbourg (France), then at the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology (EMBL) in Germany. In 1993, he was appointed full professor at the university of Geneva, where he chairs the department of Genetics and Evolution ever since 1997. In 2001, he chaired the national center of research Frontiers in Genetics and in 2012 the division III of the SNSF. In 2006, he was appointed full professor at the federal institute of technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, where he leads the laboratory of Developmental Genomics (UpDUB). His research activities are in the fields of embryology, genetics and developmental genomics of mammals, in an evolutionnary context. In particular, his laboratory has been closely associated with the structural and functional studies of mammalian Hox genes, by using mouse molecular genetic approaches. Duboule is also active in the communication of science, is member of the Academia Europea as well as of several academies in Switzerland, France and the Netherland. He is a foreign member of the Royal Society (UK) and of the National Academy of Sciences USA. He has received various scientific prizes and awards, amongst which the Marcel Benoist Prize, the Louis-Jeantet prize for medicine in 1998 or the international INSERM prize in 2010 (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Duboule).

Pierre Dillenbourg

A former teacher in elementary school, Pierre Dillenbourg graduated in educational science (University of Mons, Belgium). He started his research on learning technologies in 1984. In 1986, he has been on of the first in the world to apply machine learning to develop a self-improving teaching system. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for education. He has been assistant professor at the University of Geneva. He joined EPFL in 2002. He has been the director of Center for Research and Support on Learning and its Technologies, then academic director of Center for Digital Education, which implements the MOOC strategy of EPFL (over 2 million registrations). He is full professor in learning technologies in the School of Computer & Communication Sciences, where he is the head of the CHILI Lab: "Computer-Human Interaction for Learning & Instruction ». He is the director of the leading house DUAL-T, which develops technologies for dual vocational education systems (carpenters, florists,...). With EPFL colleagues, he launched in 2017 the Swiss EdTech Collider, an incubator with 80 start-ups in learning technologies. He (co-)-founded 4 start-ups, does consulting missions in the corporate world and joined the board of several companies or institutions. In 2018, he co-founded LEARN, the EPFL Center of Learning Sciences that brings together the local initiatives in educational innovation. He is a fellow of the International Society for Learning Sciences. He currently is the Associate Vice-President for Education at EPFL.

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Daniel Oberli

Daniel Oberli was born in Switzerland in 1957. After completing his undergraduate education in the Physics department at EPFL he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to enter the graduate program in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1988. His thesis topic was the intersubband dynamics of photo excited carriers in two-dimensional semiconductor structures, for which he developed an original experimental approach based on time-resolved Raman scattering of electronic excitations. From 1988 to 1989, he was a post-doctoral fellow at AT&T Bell laboratories, where he pursued his research interests on the ultra fast time-resolved optical properties of semiconductor microstructures under the leadership of Dr. J. Shah. In 1990, he joined the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich, where he evidenced and studied Fano resonances in the optical excitation spectra of semiconductor quantum wells. Since 1994, he has been in the Institute of Physics of the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL. His main research activities include the electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, in particular quantum wires, quantum wells and dots, Raman scattering by phonons and electronic excitations in nanostructures and the radiative properties of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, including the dynamics of exciton-polaritons and their interactions. He is a member of the American Physical Society.

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