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Seasonal tropical forest

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Alexandre Buttler
I am a honorary professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne - EPFL. Up to 2019, I was a joint-professor between EPFL (Head of the laboratory of Ecological Systems - ECOS) and the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL for Forest, Snow and Landscape (Head of the research group Pasture Woodlands and Wetlands) and head of the Site WSL-Lausanne. I was also professor at the laboratory of Chrono-Environnement (UMR CNRS 6249) of the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon (France). I am author or co-author of over 160 papers in international ISI cited peer-reviewed journals.
Jean-Louis Scartezzini
Director of EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (1994-present); Founder & Director of ENAC Institute of Infrastructures, Resources and Environment (2002-2009); Founder & Director of EPFL Doctoral Program in Environment (2002-2009); Co-Director of EPFL Institute of Building Technology (1994-1997); Associate Professor of Building Physics at EPFL (1994-1997); Associate Professor of Building Physics at University of Geneva (1990-1997); Group Leader & Research Fellow at the EPFL Solar Energy Research Group (1981-1989); Research Fellow at the Applied Geophysics Institute of University of Lausanne (1980-1981).
Rodolphe Schlaepfer
Examples of international experience:
  • Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers)
  • Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes)
  • Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources)
  • Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK
Scientific education:
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry),
  • University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics),
  • University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry),
  • Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology).
Professional career:
  • Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975),
  • Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982),
  • Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987),
  • Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996),
  • Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005)
  • From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

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