Rodolphe SchlaepferExamples of international experience:
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Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers)
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Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes)
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Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources)
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Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK
Scientific education:
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry),
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University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics),
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University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry),
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Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology).
Professional career:
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Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975),
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Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982),
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Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987),
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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),
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Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005)
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From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Rita Bütler SauvainParcours professionnel
Dès 2005: Collaboratrice scientifique (60%) à
l'Institut fédéral de recherche sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage (WSL)
20032005: Fonctionnaire scientifique (60%) à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
1997-2003: Première assistante (80%) à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
1996: Biologiste (100%) au
Service des forêts, de la faune et de la nature du canton de Vaud (SFFN)
, Lausanne
1993: Chargée de cours (30%) à l'Institut de préparation à la maturité (IPES), Lausanne
1992: Chargée de cours (100%)
NTB (Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik)
, Buchs
1991-92: Chef de projet et Chargée de cours (100%)
Technische Universität VŜST, Liberec, République tchèque
1989-91: Enseignante des sciences naturelles (50-100%)
Kantonssekundarschule (KKSS)
et
KSBG (Kantonsschule am Burggraben)
Formation
2003: Thèse pour le titre de Docteur ès sciences, EPF-Lausanne.
Dead wood in managed forests: how much and how much is enough? Development of a snag-quantification method by remote sensing and GIS and snag targets based on Three-toed woodpeckers' habitat requirements.
2003
Prix de recherche «Hintermann & Weber»
1995: Diplôme postgrade en Sciences de lenvironnement, EPF-Lausanne.
1989: Diplôme d'enseignement secondaire en sciences naturelles et mathématiques,
PHSG (Pädagogische Hochschule)
, St. Gallen
1989: Diplôme en Sciences naturelles, Haute Ecole Pédagogique, St-Gall.
1984: Maturité Type B Latin, Gymnase de St-Gall. Prix du meilleur examen.
Langues et informatique
Allemand: langue maternelle
Français: excellentes connaissances (bilinguisme)
Anglais: courant (parlé et écrit)
PC sous Windows, Bureautique (Office)
Statistique (Statistica), Systèmes dinformation géographique (MapInfo), Base de données (Access), Traitement dimage (Erdas Imagine).
Centres dintérêt
Ornithologie (ancien membre du comité de La Vaux-Lierre, centre de soins pour oiseaux sauvages ; relevés de terrain pour lAtlas des oiseaux nicheurs de Suisse, Sempach)
Botanique (relevés de terrain pour le Centre du réseau suisse de floristique, Genève)
Musique (piano, orgue, musique de chambre)
Basket (ancien membre actif en LNB et membre de comité dune association de basket pendant 5 ans)
Véronique MichaudBackground: 1994 Habilitation à diriger des recherches ( INPG, France) 1991 PhD in Materials Engineering ( MIT, USA) 1987 Ingénieur Civil des Mines ( Ecole des Mines de Paris, France) Activités: Depuis Janvier 2018: Vice-Doyenne de la faculté des ingénieurs, en charge de l'éducation. Juin 2012-Dec.2017: Directrice de la Section Science et Génie des Matériaux Depuis Avril 2017, Professeur Associée EPFL 2009-2017 : Professeur Titulaire at EPFL 1997-2009 : collaboratrice Scientifique EPFL 1994-1997 : Chef de Travaux au laboratoire MSS-MAT, Ecole Centrale Paris (France) 1991-1994 : Post-doctoral research associate, MIT (USA) Environ 300 publications of which 140 in peer-reviewed journals
Jürgen BruggerI am a Professor of Microengineering and co-affiliated to Materials Science. Before joining EPFL I was at the MESA Research Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, in Tokyo, Japan. I received a Master in Physical-Electronics and a PhD degree from Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. Research in my laboratory focuses on various aspects of MEMS and Nanotechnology. My group contributes to the field at the fundamental level as well as in technological development, as demonstrated by the start-ups that spun off from the lab. In our research, key competences are in micro/nanofabrication, additive micro-manufacturing, new materials for MEMS, increasingly for wearable and biomedical applications. Together with my students and colleagues we published over 200 peer-refereed papers and I had the pleasure to supervise over 25 PhD students. Former students and postdocs have been successful in receiving awards and starting their own scientific careers. I am honoured for the appointment in 2016 as Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to micro and nano manufacturing technology”. In 2017 my lab was awarded an ERC AdvG in the field of advanced micro-manufacturing.
Johan AuwerxJohan Auwerx is Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he occupies the Nestle Chair in Energy Metabolism. Dr. Auwerx has been using molecular physiology and systems genetics to understand metabolism in health, aging and disease. Much of his work focused on understanding how diet, exercise and hormones control metabolism through changing the expression of genes by altering the activity of transcription factors and their associated cofactors. His work was instrumental for the development of agonists of nuclear receptors - a particular class of transcription factors - into drugs, which now are used to treat high blood lipid levels, fatty liver, and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Auwerx was amongst the first to recognize that transcriptional cofactors, which fine-tune the activity of transcription factors, act as energy sensors/effectors that influence metabolic homeostasis. His research validated these cofactors as novel targets to treat metabolic diseases, and spurred the clinical use of natural compounds, such as resveratrol, as modulators of these cofactor pathways.
Johan Auwerx was elected as a member of EMBO in 2003 and is the recipient of a dozen of international scientific prizes, including the Danone International Nutrition Award, the Oskar Minkowski Prize, and the Morgagni Gold Medal. His work is highly cited by his peers with a h-factor of over 100. He is an editorial board member of several journals, including Cell Metabolism, Molecular Systems Biology, The EMBO Journal, Journal of Cell Biology, Cell, and Science. Dr. Auwerx co-founded a handful of biotech companies, including Carex, PhytoDia, and most recently Mitobridge, and has served on several scientific advisory boards.
Dr. Auwerx received both his MD and PhD in Molecular Endocrinology at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium. He was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Departments of Medicine and Genetics of the University of Washington in Seattle.
Katrin BeyerSince 2017 Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), EPFL. Head of the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) Laboratory
2010-2017 Assistant Professor, EPFL.
2008-2010 Post-doctoral researcher, ETH Zürich.
2003-2007 Ph.D., Roseschool / Università di Pavia, Italy.
2001-2003 Ove Arup & Partners, Advanced Technology and Research Group, London.
2001 Diploma, Civil engineering, ETH Zürich.
