César PulgarinProf. C. Pulgarin is Chemist from Lausanne University, Master in environmental chemistry from Geneva University, Ph D in synthesis bio-inspired of natural substances from Neuchâtel University. During his education he carried out several industrial trainings.
Since March 1989, he has been working at the EPFL where he is leader of the Advanced Oxidation Processes Group (GPAO) active in the development chemical, photochemical, electrochemical, ultrasonic processes, their coupling between them and with biological systems to degrade chemical and microbiological pollutants in water and air. He has an H index of 40 and he is the world most cited author in 1) TiO2 photo-assisted bacterial inactivation in water and 2) Coupling of photochemical and biological processes for pollutant degradation. He has been involved in ten African, South American and European international research projects. He has been Swiss representative in COST program 540.
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.
David Andrew BarryResearch InterestsSubsurface hydrology, constructed wetlands, ecological engineering, in particular contaminant transport and remediation of soil and groundwater; more generally, models of hydrological and vadose zone processes; application of mathematical methods to hydrological processes; coastal zone sediment transport, aquifer-coastal ocean interactions; hydrodynamics and modelling of lakes.
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)
Viesturs SimanisViesturs Simanis was awarded a degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College London. He carried out his doctoral studies with David Lane at Imperial College, London University, and postdoctoral studies with Paul Nurse (London and Oxford). He has been a group leader at ISREC since 1988. In 2006 he was appointed Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences
