Nicola BraghieriNé en 1967 à Milan, Italie. Vit et travaille entre Lausanne et Genève. Études secondaires classiques et diplôme (magistrale) au Polytechnique de Milan avec un mémoire sur l’architecture alpine. En 1999, il obtient un titre de Docteur (PhD) à l’Université de Gênes à l'issue d'une recherche sur la théorie de la tradition. Actuellement, il est professeur à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. Entre 2014 et 2019 a été directeur de la Section d'ARchitecture. Il a enseigné dessin à la Faculté d’Architecture du Polytechnique de Milan. Il a également enseigné projet à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zürich ETH et de Lausanne EPFL entre 2003 et 2008 en tant que professeur invité. En 2006, il a été professeur à la Haute École Européenne d’Architecture Urbaine SSEAU de Naples. Entre 2003 et 2008, il a été professeur à la Faculté d’Architecture de Gênes, titulaire de la chaire de Projet et Théorie du Projet, membre du Conseil des professeurs de l’École de Doctorat. En 2010, il fut nommé professeur (i.v.) d’Entwerfen und Raumgestaltung à l’Université Technique de Darmstadt TUD. Il a enseigné projet et il a dirigé les séminaires "Die Wallpaperarbeiten (Die Stadt als einen großen Wandteppich" et "Patchworkarbeiten (Die Fassade als Flickwerk)", sur la relation entre la figuration urbaine et la décoration d'intérieur. Il a donné des conférences, des cours et des critiques dans plusieurs universités européennes, dont l’Université technique de Hanovre TUH, la Leipzig Fachhochshule LFH, la Hochschule Rapperswil HSR-Z, l’Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH-Z, le Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule d’Aix-la-Chapelle RWTH, l'École d'architecture à Marne-la-Vallée ENSA VT, l’Académie d’Architecture de l’Université de la Suisse italienne AAM.... Il a été membre des commissions du Diplôme, ainsi que du concours pour professeur, et évaluateur de projets de recherche d’importance nationale et européenne. Ses études et ses recherches concernent principalement les thématiques de la figuration architecturale, de la tradition, de la rhétorique et de la tectonique. Pendant ses quinze années d’activité d’enseignement, il a cherché à développer une méthode pédagogique élémentaire qui pose en termes réalistes la relation entre la théorie, la pratique et la poétique dans le projet et la figuration de l'architecture. Nicola Braghieri a publié plusieurs ouvrages théoriques: " Architettura, arte retorica ", " Riflessioni intorno alla costruzione e l’assemblaggio "; " Buoni edifici, meravigliose rovine ", autour de l’œuvre de Louis Kahn; " Case di Legno ", traduit en français et en espagnol. Il a introduit, traduit et adapté " Experiencing Architecture " de Steen Eiler Rasmussen. En 2018 à été publié à Berlin pour Divisare Press "Analogous Postcards", une monographie en cinq livrets sur son travail graphique. Il a rédigé des essais édités dans plusieurs revues scientifiques et des articles publiés dans plusieurs magazines d’architecture. Il a également collaboré avec l’hebdomadaire culturel Diario et a été auteur d’une émission d’architecture sur la radio indépendante Radiopopolare. En 2007, il a rédigé plusieurs articles pour les encyclopédies Motta et Einaudi. Depuis 2008, il est rédacteur du magazine d’architecture Casabella. Parallèlement à son activité d’enseignement et de recherche, il a travaillé en tant qu’architecte indépendant. Il a participé à des concours, fait des projets et réalisé des bâtiments. Il a ouvert son studio à Milan en 1996, après plusieurs années de formations et d’expériences professionnelles en Suisse et en Allemagne. Entre le 1998 et le 2007, il est associé à Valeria Cosmelli et Marlene Dörrie. En 2007, il a été co-fondateur avec son épouse Alessandra Spada de EX_M Architetti (www.ex-m.eu) basé à Milan et de 2013 à Genève. Nicola Braghieri a travaillé ces dernières années sur des projets publics de première importance. Il a participé à de nombreux concours d’architecture en Italie et à l’étranger, a reçu des prix. Par conséquent projeté et réalisait de nombreuses architectures. En 2002, il a gagné le concours international pour un nouveau quartier d’habitations à loyer modéré à Settimo Milanese, construit en 2013, et en 2011 le concours Vandœuvres Esplanade dans le Canton de Genève, actuellement en construction. En 2003 il a été finaliste du concours international pour le Centre de formation professionnelle à Sasso Marconi, en 2007 pour la transformation et pour l’élargissement de la Bibliothèque de Stockholm, en 2012 pour le Pavillon Suisse dans l’Expo 2015 et en 2014 pour un quartier de 2000 habitants à Genève Le Vernets. Ses projets sont publiés dans des volumes collectifs et sur les magazines Domus, Casabella, Area, Archi, d’Architettura, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Werk, Bauen Wohnen, Bauwelt, Wettbewerbe Aktuell, Arkitektur and Arquitectura Viva. Son travail a été l’objet d’une exposition personnelle sous le patronage du Ministère allemand des Affaires Étrangères et aussi dans plusieurs expositions collectives. Il est assez actif, sous plusieurs pseudonymes, dans le domaine des Beaux-Arts numériques. Il produit collages numériques et mécaniques, s'occupe de falsification photographique et contrefaçon postale. Sabine SüsstrunkProf. Dr. Sabine Süsstrunk leads the Image and Visual Representation Lab in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL since 1999. From 2015-2020, she was also the first Director of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), College of Humanities (CdH). Her main research areas are in computational photography, computational imaging, color image processing and computer vision, machine learning, and computational image quality and aesthetics. Sabine has authored and co-authored over 200 publications, of which 7 have received best paper/demo awards, and holds over 10 patents. Sabine served as chair and/or committee member in many international conferences on image processing, computer vision, and image systems engineering. She is President of the Swiss Science Council SSC, Founding Member and Member of the Board (President 2014-2018) of the EPFL-WISH (Women in Science and Humanities) Foundation, Member of the Board of the SRG SSR (Swiss Radio and Television Corporation), and Member of the Board of Largo Films. She received the IS&T/SPIE 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award for her contributions to color imaging, computational photography, and image quality, and the 2018 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman and the 2020 EPFL AGEPoly IC Polysphere Awards for excellence in teaching. Sabine is a Fellow of IEEE and IS&T.
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.
Bernard MoretBernard M.E. Moret was born in Vevey, Switzerland, received baccalauréats in Latin-Greek and Latin-Mathematics, then did a Diploma in Electrical Engineering at EPFL. After working for 2 years for Omega and Swiss Timing on the development of real-time OS for sports applications, he left for the US. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the U. of Tennessee in 1980 and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM) that fall. He served as Chairman of the department from 1991 till 1993 and eventually retired in summer 2006 to join the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. (You can read about his work at UNM on his (archived) personal and laboratory web pages at UNM.) He was appointed group leader for phylogenetics at the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB). From 2009 until his retirement, he was also in charge of the BS and MS programs in Computer Science and Associate Dean for Education. He founded the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) and served as its Editor-in-Chief for 7 years; he also helped found the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), where he served as Associate Editor until 2008. He founded the annual Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) and chairs its steering committee, and he serves on the steering committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX). Until summer 2008, he chaired the Biodata Management and Analysis (BDMA) study section of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH); now he is a charter member of the NIH College of Reviewers. He led a team of over 50 biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in the CIPRES (Cyber Infrastructure for Phylogenetic Research) project, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for US$ 12 million over 5 years. He has published nearly 150 papers in computational biology, under funding from the US NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the IBM Corporation, the US NIH, the Swiss NSF, and SystemsX.ch. He is a Fellow of the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology). His Erdös number is 2 and (as of 2020) his h-index is 48.
Denis GilletDenis Gillet received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems also from the EPFL in 1995. During 1992 he was appointed as Research Fellow at the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University in the United States. He is currently Maître d'enseignement et de recherche at the EPFL School of Engineering, where he leads the React research group. His current research interests include Technologies Enhanced Learning (TEL), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Devices Interaction (HDI) and Optimal Coordination of Complex and Distributed Systems. Denis Gillet is affiliated at EPFL with the Center for Intelligent Systems and the Center for Digital Education.
Jan Sickmann HesthavenProf. Hesthaven received an M.Sc. in computational physics from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in August 1991. During the studies, the last 6 months of 1989 was spend at JET, the european fusion laboratory in Culham, UK. Following graduation, he was awarded a 3 year fellowship to begin work towards a Ph.D. at Riso National Laboratory in the Department of Optics and Fluid Dynamics. During the 3 years of study, the academic year of 1993-1994 was spend in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and three 3 months during the summer of 1994 in Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of New Mexico. In August 1995, he recieved a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis from the Institute of Mathematical Modelling (DTU). Following graduation in August 1995, he was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Scientific Computing and was approinted Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. In December of 1996, he was appointed consultant to the Institute of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering(ICASE) at NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC). As of July 1999, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, in September 2000 he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, as of July 2001 he was awarded a Manning Assistant Professorship, and in March 2002, he was awarded an NSF Career Award. In January 2003, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics with tenure and in May 2004 he was awarded Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences (the highest award given for teaching excellence in all sciences at Brown University). He was promoted to Professor of Applied Mathematics as of July 2005. From October 2006 to June 2013, he was the Founding Director of the Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV) at Brown University. As of October 2007, he holds the (honorary) title of Professor (Adjunct) at the Technical University of Denmark. In November 2009, he successfully defended his dr.techn thesis at the Technical University of Denmark and was rewarded the degree of Doctor Technices -- the highest academic distinction awarded based on ... substantial and lasting contributions that has helped to move the research area forward and penetrated into applications. As grant Co-PI he served from Aug 2010 to June 2013 as Deputy Director of the Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), the newest NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. After having spend his entire academic career at Brown University, Prof Hesthaven decided to pursue new challenges and joined the Mathematics Institute of Computational Science and Engineering (MATHICSE) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in July 2013. In March 2014 he was elected SIAM Fellow for contributions to high-order methods for partial differential equations.
Anton SchleissProf. Dr. Anton J. Schleiss graduated in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1978. After joining the Laboratory of Hydraulic, Hydrology and Glaciology at ETH as a research associate and senior assistant, he obtained a Doctorate of Technical Sciences on the topic of pressure tunnel design in 1986. After that he worked for 11 years for Electrowatt Engineering Ltd. (now Pöyry) in Zurich and was involved in the design of many hydropower projects around the world as an expert on hydraulic engineering and underground waterways. Until 1996 he was Head of the Hydraulic Structures Section in the Hydropower Department at Electrowatt. In 1997, he was nominated full professor and became Director of the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) in the Civil Engineering Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). The LCH activities comprise education, research and services in the field of both fundamental and applied hydraulics and design of hydraulic structures and schemes. The research focuses on the interaction between water, sediment-rock, air and hydraulic structures as well as associated environmental issues and involves both numerical and physical modeling of water infrastructures. In May 2018, he became Honorary Professor at EPFL. More than 50 PhD and Postdoc research projects have been carried out under his guidance. From 1999 to 2009 he was Director of the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Water Resources Management and Hydraulic Engineering held in Lausanne in collaboration with ETH Zurich and the universities of Innsbruck (Austria), Munich (Germany), Grenoble (France) and Liège (Belgium). From 2006 to 2012 he was the Head of the Civil Engineering program of EPFL and chairman of the Swiss Committee on Dams (SwissCOLD). In 2006, he obtained the ASCE Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Price as well as the J. C. Stevens Award. He was listed in 2011 among the 20 international personalities that “have made the biggest difference to the sector Water Power & Dam Construction over the last 10 years”. Between 2014 and 2017 he was Council member of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and he was chair of the Europe Regional Division of IAHR until 2016. For his outstanding contributions to advance the art and science of hydraulic structures engineering he obtained in 2015 the ASCE-EWRI Hydraulic Structures Medal. The French Hydro Society (SHF) awarded him with the Grand Prix SHF 2018. After having served as vice-president between 2012 and 2015 he was president of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) from 2015 to 2018. On behalf of ICOLD he his the coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 project "Hydropower Europe". With more than 40 years of experience he is regularly involved as a consultant and expert in large water infrastructures projects including hydropower and dams all over the world. Awards (besides those mentioned above): ASCE-Journal of Hydraulic Engineering Outstanding Reviewer Recognition 2013 ASCE-EWRI-Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 2014 Best Technical Note
