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.
Andreas MortensenAndreas Mortensen is currently Professor and Director of the Institute of Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he heads the Laboratory for Mechanical Metallurgy. He joined the faculty of EPFL 1997 after ten years, from 1986 to 1996, as a member of the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he held the successive titles of ALCOA Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor. His research is focussed on the processing, microstructural development and mechanical behavior of advanced metallic materials with particular focus on metal matrix composites and metal foams, on infiltration processing and capillarity, and on damage and fracture in metallic materials. He is author or co-author of two monographs, around one hundred and eighty scientific or technical publications and twelve patents. Born in San Francisco in 1957, of dual (Danish and US) nationality, Andreas Mortensen graduated in 1980 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris with a Diplôme dIngénieur Civil, and earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 1986. Besides his academic employment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Nippon Steel during part of 1986, and was invited professor at the Ecole des Mines in Paris during the academic year 1995 to 1996. He is a member of the editorial committee of International Materials Reviews and has co-edited four books. He is a Fellow of ASM, a recipient of the Howe Medal and the Grossman Award of the American Society of Metals, was awarded the Péchiney Prize by the French Academy of Sciences and the Res Metallica Chair from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, received three EPFL teaching awards, is one of ISIs Highly Cited authors for Materials Science since 2002 and was awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2012.
Rizlan Bernier-LatmaniHIGHER EDUCATION
Summer course: Advances in Genome Technology and Bioinformatics Course at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. October 2005.
Ph.D. 2001 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA
(Advisor, Jim Leckie, Biodegradation of uranyl (UO22 )-complexed citrate and implications for uranyl mobility in the subsurface)
M.S. 1995 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA
B.S. 1993 Natural Resources with Honors, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2013-present Associate professor with tenure, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
2005-2013 Assistant professor tenure track, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
2001-2005 Post-Graduate Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA (PI: Brad Tebo)
1995-2001 Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford University (Advisor: Jim Leckie)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Gemicrobiology, metal-bacteria interactions, biological reduction and oxidation of metals, biological nanoparticle formation; Characterization of microbial communities in terrestrial environments; Using genomic, microscopic and spectroscopic tools to understand metal transformations by microorganisms.
ACADEMIC HONORS
Rotary Foundation University Professor grant, 2004.
Swiss National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2001.
Leon B. Reynolds Memorial Scholarship in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, 1995-96.
Graduated with Honors from Cornell University, 1993.
BIBLIOMETRY
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-4398-2011
ResearcherID: E-4398-2011 Georges MeylanAprès une thèse en astrophysique, en 1985, à l'Observatoire astronomique de l'Université de Genève, Georges Meylan séjourne en tant que postdoc à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley, USA, et au siège de l'Observatoire Européen Austral (ESO) à Munich, Allemagne. Il occupe ensuite des positions d'astronome senior à l'ESO à Munich et au Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) à Baltimore, USA. Depuis août 2004, il occupe la chaire d'astrophysique de l'EPFL.
Sa recherche porte sur la cosmologie observationnelle, incluant le phénomène de lentilles gravitationnelles, les quasars et leurs galaxies hôtes, la formation et l'évolution des galaxies tout au long de l'évolution de l'Univers, la dynamique stellaire et l'étude des populations stellaires proches et lointaines.
