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Cara Christine Tobin

CARA C. TOBIN, PE Civil Engineer EDUCATION PhD in Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Fulbright Fellowship 01/2007-present Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Recipient 06/2001 Bachelor's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow 06/1999 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, MINERVE2011 · Research on Predicting floods and managing hydropower in the Swiss Alps. Project includes improving knowledge of hydrological processes and conducting uncertainty analysis. 10/2007 - present Asian Development Bank: World Bank, Baku, Azerbaijan · Environmental engineering specialist in charge of reviewing environmental aspects of water supply and wastewater discharge designs. Environmental Assessments Performed and managed the local environmental, social and resettlement specialists. 02/2009 - 07/2009 Asian Development Bank / World Bank, Yerevan, Armenia · Environmental engineering specialist for the assessment of water supply designs. Performed Environmental Assessments and Resettlement due diligence. 01/2008 - 04/2008 Temple University, Department of Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, USA · Adjunct Professor for Environmental Engineering, Introduction to the Environment and Environmental Engineering 10/2005-06/2006 CH2M HILL, Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Philadelphia, USA · Project leader for river discharge ammonia toxicity study · Engineer in charge of over $ 100,000 in WWTP design upgrades 10/2004-06/2006 MWH Ltd., Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Christchurch, NZ and Brisbane, AU Leader hydraulic engineer for major components of a $ 150 million wastewater and desalination project · Head shape for a dozen water and groundwater projects 02/2003-09/2004 Kennedy / Jenks Consultants, Civil Engineering Consultancy, San Francisco, USA · Environmental engineer in charge of Drinking Water Source Assessments and water quality sampling programs 08/2001-01/2003 Stanford Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab, USA · Developer of a 3D computer model simulating turbulent mixing at lateral boundaries due to steepening and breaking of internal waves 08/2000-06/2001 Georgia Instititute of Technology, Civil Engineering Labs, USA · Analyzed influence of copper sorption rates on particle flocculation kinetics Developed turbulence · PIV experiments in hydraulic flume 06/1998-06/2000 AFFILIATIONS and SPECIALIZATIONS . Fluent en Anglais et Français, proficient in Spanish · Professional Civil Engineer (PE072050), ASCE, AGU, Fulbright Alumnus · Experienced with ArcGIS, Matlab, R Statistical Analysis, MapInfo, MODFLOW, H2OMap, AutoCAD, Idrisi, Unix / Lenox, Fortran, NetCDF, Visual Basic

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

I started my scientific career in 2008 at the Grenoble University in the IRSTEA laboratory where I did my master's thesis on the rheology of dense granular materials using the discrete element method. In the same lab, I followed with a PhD on the numerical modeling of the release depth of extreme avalanches using a combined mechanical-statistical approach and spatial extreme statistics. In 2013 I obtained a postdoc position at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos where I was in charge of developing and applying numerical models to improve the evaluation of avalanche release conditions and thus avalanche forecasting. While my PhD was mostly theoretical and numerical, my postdoc in Davos allowed me to gain a practical expertise by participating in laboratory and field experiments which helped to validate the models I develop. In 2016, I was awarded a SNF grant to work as a research and teaching associate in CRYOS at EPFL on the multiscale modeling of snow and avalanche processes. I developed discrete approaches to model snow micro-structure deformation and failure in order to evaluate constitutive snow models to be used at a larger scale in continuum models. I also developed numerical models for wind-driven snow transport. In 2017, I was a Visiting Scholar at UCLA to work on a Material Point Method (MPM) to simulate both the initiation and propagation of snow avalanches in a unified manner. The UCLA MPM model was initially developed for the Disney movie "Frozen" and has been modified and enriched based on Critical State Soil Mechanics to model the release and flow of slab avalanches. The results of this collaboration have been published in Nature Communications. In 2018, I was awarded the SNF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship and became professor at EPFL and head of SLAB, the Snow and Avalanche Simulation Laboratory. At SLAB, we study micro-mechanical failure and fracture propagation of porous brittle solids, with applications in snow slab avalanche release. We also simulate avalanche dynamics and flow regime transitions over complex 3D terrain through the development of new models (depth-resolved and depth-averaged) based on MPM.In 2020, I obtained a SPARK grant to develop a new approach to simulate and better understand complex process chains in gravitational mass movements, including permafrost instabilities, rock, snow and ice avalanches and transitions to debris flows.