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Christoph Frei
Since 2009
Secretary General , World Energy Council (WEC).Since 2006
Titulary Professor , Advisor to the President of EPFL and EPFL's Energy Center on energy issues. Expertise: International energy & environment policy and strategy.2001-2009
Senior Director , Energy Industries & Strategy at the World Economic Forum (WEF); Member of the Forum's Executive Council.2002-2003
Lecturer , postgraduate course on "Energy Systems in an Economywide Framework", for the Master of Science in Energy Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).2001-2003
European Master in Applied Ethics , Ethics Centre, University of Zurich; specialisation in multi-stakeholder theory.2000-2001
Research fellow at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology co-lecturing "Socio-economic aspects of Energy Systems".1996-2000
Dr ès Sciences , PhD thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (PSI). Domain: Modelling the links between Energy Policy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Welfare.1997-2000
Master (DES) in Econometrics at the University of Geneva.1995-1997
Master of Science in Energy Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL); specialisation in Energy Economics and Management.1995-2001
Research fellow at the Laboratory of Energy Systems of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).1989-1995
Dipl. El.-Ing. , graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ) (4th year in Lausanne); training/diploma thesis at the Institute of Microtechnique, University of Neuchâtel (UNINE) (solar cells research).Michael Christoph Gastpar
Michael Gastpar is a (full) Professor at EPFL. From 2003 to 2011, he was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, earning his tenure in 2008.
He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1997 and his MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 1999. He defended his doctoral thesis at EPFL on Santa Claus day, 2002. He was also a (full) Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the co-recipient of the 2013 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He was an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2011). He won an ERC Starting Grant in 2010, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award. He has served as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2008-11), and as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX.
Giacomo Garegnani
Giacomo Garegnani is a postdoc at EPFL in the chair of Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics (ANMC). He obtained a traditional diploma in piano at Conservatorio Vivaldi in 2012, and his MSc in Computational Science and Engineering at EPFL in 2017 completing his Master Thesis under the supervision of Prof. A. Abdulle.