Diego Ruben BarrettinoDiego Barrettino (S’93–M’98–SM’06) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) in 2004.
He worked at Allegro MicroSystems Inc., from 1997 to 2000, where he was an Analog IC Designer of Hall-effect magnetic sensors. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at ETHZ, where he designed chemical and mechanical sensors. In 2004, he moved to the USA where he designed biomedical devices first as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the University of Washington, and then as an Assistant Professor in the University of Hawaii. In 2006, he returned to Europe where he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) as a Senior Research Scientist for the design and development of biosensors using organic nanotransistors. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Senior Lecturer in the University of Glasgow, U.K., and in the University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, where he designed ultra-low power biomedical devices. From 2009 to 2017, he was Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microelectronics, Bioelectronics and Sensor Systems (LMBS) at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), where he designed smart contact lenses and eye implants. In 2017, he joined both the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU) and EPFL as a part-time Senior Research Scientist to continue his work on smart sensor systems.
His research interests are in the fields of physical, chemical, and biomedical microsensors; sensor fusion algorithms; analog and mixed-signal IC design; MEMS; embedded systems; avionics and bioelectronics.
Diego Barrettino is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Frédéric CourbinAprès ses études de physique fondamentale à l'Université de Paris-XI (Orsay, France), Frédéric Courbin effectue sa thèse de doctorat entre l'Institut d'Astrophysique de l'Université de Liège (Belgique), l'Observatoire de Paris (France) et l'Observatoire Européen Austral (ESO, Allemagne). En 1999, il quitte l'Europe pour trois ans, afin de poursuivre ses recherches sous le ciel pur du Chili, où l'ESO vient de terminer la construction de son VLT (Very Large Telescope), dans le désert de l'Atacama. En 2004, après un séjour de 2 ans à l'Université de Liège comme chercheur "Marie Curie", Frédéric Courbin rejoint le Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'EPFL où il est actuellement professeur. Ses sujets de recherche principaux se situent en cosmologie et en astrophysique extragalactique, ainsi qu'en traitement du signal. En 2018, il obtient un financement Européen (ERC Advanced grant) lié à son travail en cosmologie avec les lentilles gravitationnelles. A l'EPFL il est membre de la commission de l'école doctorale en physique (EDPY) et à été le tuteur de plus de 30 étudiants en thèse à ce jour. Depuis 2018, il est membre du Conseil de Faculté des Sciences de Bases et de l'assemblée d'école depuis 2020.
Pierre-Etienne BourbanBackground 1990 Ingénieur en science des matériaux 1993 PhD in materials science Activities 1993-1994 Research at the Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, USA (ccm.udel.edu), SNSF grant Since 1994 Research and teaching at EPFL, Composites, (LTC, LPAC) 1995-1999 Coordination Swiss Priority Program on Materials research: 2.2: Composites Since 1998 Biocomposites 2004-2009 Direction of the EPFL Transdisciplinary programme in Sport and Rehabilitation 2005-2008 Member of the EPFL Vice-Presidency for Innovation and Valorisation and direction a.i.EPFL-LTC Since 2016 Direction Discovery Learning Labs Materials/Bioengineering and Engineering
