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Alfred Rufer
Originaire de Diessbach (BE), Alfred Rufer est né en 1951. Il obtient en 1976 le diplôme d'ingénieur électricien de l'EPFL et poursuit son activité dans le même établissement en tant qu'assistant à la chaire d'électronique industrielle. En 1993, il est nommé professeur-assistant au Laboratoire d'électronique industrielle. Au début 1996, il est nommé professeur extraordinaire.  En 1978, il débute son activité dans l'industrie de l'électronique de grande puissance à la société ABB, Asea Brown Boveri à Turgi, où il contribue au développement d'entraînements réglés à fréquence variable. Dès 1985, il exerce la fonction d'assistant technique et de chef de groupe.  De 1988 à 1991, il poursuit le développement de nouveaux systèmes d'électronique de puissance dans différents domaines d'application. A. Rufer est l'auteur et co-auteur de plusieurs demandes de brevet, ainsi que de plusieurs publications. De 1991 à 1992, il est chef d'un département de développement d'appareils d'électronique de réglage et de commande pour l'électronique de puissance. Durant son activité professionnelle dans l'industrie, il participe activement à l'enseignement technique dans plusieurs écoles d'ingénieurs.
Hannes Bleuler
Swiss, Born 19.2.1954 1973-78 ETH Zurich, M.S. in Electrical Engineering 1979-84 Teaching Assistant, Doctorate Student at ETH (Inst. of Mechanics) 1984 Ph.D. thesis in Mechatronics (magnetic bearings, Prof. G. Schweitzer) 1985-87 Research Engineer at Hitachi Ltd, Japan, Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory; 1987 Invited researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Precision Mechatronics, Prof. K. Ono) 1988-91 Lecturer and Senior Assistant at ETH ; co-foundation of MECOS-Traxler AG 1991-95 Toshiba Chair of "Intelligent Mechatronics" and then regular Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo (Institute of Industrial Science) 1995-present Full Professor at EPFL Lausanne on micro–robotics, biomedical robotics; 2000 Co-founder of xitact SA, Morges (robotic surgery instrumentation & simulators) 2002-2006 President Conference of Professors and Lecturers of EPFL, member of Assemblée de l'Ecole 2006 Chairman of ISMB10 (10th International Symposium on Magnetic Bearings, Martigny, Switzerland) 2006 Nomination as member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW)
Yves Perriard
Yves Perriard was born in Lausanne in 1965. He received the M. Sc. in Microengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL) in 1989 and the Ph D. degree in 1992. Co-founder of Micro-Beam SA, he was CEO of this company involved in high precision electric drive. Senior lecturer from 1998 and professor since 2003, he is currently director of Laboratory of Integrated Actuators. His research interests are in the field of new actuator design and associated electronic devices. In 2009, he is appointed Vice-Director of the Microengineering Institute in Neuchâtel until 2011. In 2013 the Federal Council has named him the the CTI commission in Bern. In 2014 he is appointed guest professor at Zhejiang University in China. In 2017, the lab is granted by the Werner Siemens Foundation of an amount of 12 millions CHF in order to set up a new Center for Artificial Muscules. Since 2018, he is Expert with Innosuisse, the new Swiss Innovation Agency.   http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=V2onuO8AAAAJ  https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-12-million-franc-donation-to-create-a-center-for/

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