Stephan MorgenthalerACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of Applied Statistics, EPFL, 1988-present
Associate Professor of Statistics, Yale University, 1987-1988
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Yale University, 1983-1987
Instructor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983-1984
Jan Van HerleBorn in Antwerp, Belgium. In Switzerland since 1983. Became Swiss citizen in 2004 out of conviction of principles of democracy and bottom-up participation. No double nationality. Village Council Member for 2 five-year mandates in 2006-2016.
1987 : Chemist from Basel University (CH).
1988 : Post-graduate IT diploma from Basel Engineering School.
1989 : Industry internship ABB Baden (CH).
1990-1993 : PhD Thesis EPFL, on Solid Oxide Fuel Cell cathode reaction mechanisms.
1994-1995 : Japanese Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tsukuba, Japan, on ceramic powders.
1995-2000 : Researcher at EPFL, Dpt. Chemistry : project responsible in PPM2 (materials), FP4-BriteEuram, NEDO (Japan), Swiss Gas Union (CH, oxygen membranes).
1998-2000 : Masters in Energy Technology, EPFL.
2000 : Cofounder of HTceramix SA (EPFL spin-off), now based in Yverdon (14 employees). Taken over by SOLIDpower in 2007, now 250 employees with 70 MCHF raised.
2000 : 1st Assistant and lecturer at LENI (STI-IGM) : fuel cell group responsible, projects on biogas (Federal Energy Office), woodgas (CCEM), fuel cell stacking (CTI, FP6, FNS), ceramic separation membranes (COST, FNS), microtubes (STI Seed), stability/lifetime/reliability in fuel cells (Electricité de France, swisselectric research). Currently 4 Ph D theses ongoing, 14 theses concluded, of which 5 colateral with SB and IMX. M.E.R. since Nov 2008.
Total funding raised so far >18 MCHF (50% as main applicant; 30% outside CH; 20% industry).
Scientific output : >135 peer-reviewed publications, >120 conference papers, 40 invited presentations (8 keynotes), >70 granted proposals.
Fluent in 5 languages (Dutch, French, German ( Swiss-german), English, Spanish).
Vassily HatzimanikatisDr. Vassily Hatzimanikatis is currently Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Vassily received a PhD and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras, in Greece. After the completion of his doctoral studies, he held a research group leader position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. Prior to joining EPFL, Vassily worked for three years in DuPont, Cargill, and Cargill Dow, and he has been assistant professor at Northwestern University, at Illinois, USA.
Vassilys research interests are in the areas of computational systems biology, biotechnology, and complexity. He is associate editor of the journals Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Metabolic Engineering and Integrative Biology, and he serves on the editorial advisory board of the journals Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, and Industrial Biotechnology. He has written over 70 technical publications and he is co-inventor in three patents and patent applications.
Vassily is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2010), he was a DuPont Young Professor (2001-2004), and he has also received the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering (2000), and the ACS Elmar Gaden Award (2011).
Thomas GmürNé à Bruxelles (Belgique) où il entreprend ses études, Thomas Gmür obtient en 1978 un diplôme d'ingénieur mécanicien à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).D'abord actif dans un consortium industriel, puis nommé chercheur scientifique au Laboratoire de mécanique appliquée et d'analyse de fiabilité (Faculté STI) de l'EPFL, il décroche un doctorat ès sciences en 1982. Promu adjoint scientifique en 1986 et professeur titulaire en 2006, il dirige un groupe de recherche en analyse structurelle et s'intéresse plus particulièrement à l'identification, par analyse modale numérique et expérimentale, de modèles structuraux en matériaux métalliques ou composites. Dans ce cadre, il a développé un logiciel d'éléments finis pour l'étude du comportement dynamique des structures. Il est le co-fondateur d'une start-up active dans le domaine de la numérique non linéaire et l'optimisation des structures, ainsi que des analyses expérimentales in situ.Dès 1979, Thomas Gmür assure à l'EPFL divers enseignements. Il a dispensé à la Section de génie mécanique les cours de Mécanique des structures, de Mécanique vibratoire, de Méthode des éléments finis et de Dynamique numérique des structures.Il est l'auteur d'une centaine de publications scientifiques dans des revues internationales et a rédigé quatre ouvrages ayant trait à la mécanique des structures, à la dynamique numérique et à la modélisation par éléments finis.En retraite depuis juillet 2019, il a actuellement le titre de professeur honoraire.
