Jacques LévyJacques Lévy (1952-) est professeur ordinaire de géographie et durbanisme à lÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Il y dirige le Laboratoire Chôros et le programme doctoral Architecture et Sciences de la Ville.
Thématiques
Ses centres dintérêts principaux sont la théorie de lespace des sociétés, notamment au travers de la géographie du politique, des villes et de lurbanité, de lEurope et de la mondialisation. Il sintéresse à lépistémologie et aux méthodes des sciences sociales, avec une attention particulière pour la cartographie et la modélisation. Il travaille à lintroduction des langages non-verbaux, notamment audio-visuels à tous les niveaux de la recherche. Il a réalisé en 2013 un long métrage, Urbanité/s, qui se veut un manifeste pour le film scientifique.
Fonctions et activités
Il a été chercheur au CNRS (1984-1993), professeur à lInstitut détudes politiques de Paris (1989-2007) et professeur à lUniversité de Reims (1993-2004). Il est professeur invité à New York (NYU), Los Angeles (UCLA), Naples (IUO), São Paulo (USP), Mexico (Cátedra Reclus) et Sydney (Macquarie University), fellow au Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2003-2004).
Il est codirecteur de la revue de sciences sociales en accès libre EspacesTemps.net. Il codirige la collection Lespace en société aux Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes Il est conseiller scientifique de la revue Pouvoirs Locaux. Il est membre du jury du Grand Prix international de lUrbanisme (Paris). Il collabore avec plusieurs journaux et chaines de radio en France et en Suisse.
Publications
Il a publié en français, en anglais, en italien, en allemand, en espagnol, en portugais, en russe et en hongrois. Parmi ses six cents publications, on peut noter : Révolutions, fin et suite (avec Patrick Garcia et Marie-Flore Mattei, EspacesTemps/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1991), Géographies du politique (dir., Presses de Sciences Po/EspacesTemps, 1991), Le monde : espaces et systèmes (avec Marie-Françoise Durand et Denis Retaillé, Presses de Sciences Po/Dalloz, 1992 ; 2e édition 1993), Lespace légitime (Presses de la FNSP, 1994), Egogéographies (LHarmattan, 1995), Le monde pour Cité (Hachette, 1996), le dossier « Nouvelles géographies » (revue Le Débat, novembre 1996), Europe : une géographie (Hachette, 1997 ; nouvelle édition : Europe, une géographie. La fabrique dun continent, 2011), Mondialisation : les mots et les choses (avec le groupe Mondialisation du Gemdev, Karthala, 1999), Le tournant géographique (Belin, 1999), Logiques de lespace, esprit des lieux (co-dir. avec Michel Lussault, Belin, 2000), Repenser le territoire : un dictionnaire critique (avec Serge Wachter et al., LAube, 2000), From Geopolitics to Global Politics (ed., Frank Cass, 2001), Dictionnaire de la géographie et de lespace des sociétés (co-dir avec Michel Lussault, Belin, 2003, nouvelle édition 2013), La carte, enjeu contemporain (avec Patrick Poncet et Emmanuelle Tricoire, La Documentation Photographique, 2004), Les sens du mouvement (co-dir. avec Sylvain Allemand et François Ascher, Belin, 2005), le dossier « Eine geographische Wende » (revue Geographische Zeitschrift, 2005), Penser lespace pour lire la vieillesse (avec Pierre Brunel, Claudine Attias-Donfut, Jean Morval, PUF, 2006), Milton Santos, philosophe du mondial, citoyen du local (PPUR, 2007), Linvention du Monde (dir., Presses de Sciences Po, 2008), The City (Ashgate, 2008), Échelles de lhabiter (dir., PUCA, 2008), Le sfide cartografiche, (dir., avec Emanuela Casti, Il Lavoro Editoriale, 2010), Globalization of Urbanity (dir., avec Josep Acebillo et Chrisitan Schmid, iCUP, 2013), Réinventer la France (Fayard, 2013), Mondialisation : consommateur ou acteur ? (avec Jacques Cossart et Lucas Léger, Le Muscadier, 2013).
Michel BierlaireBorn in 1967, Michel Bierlaire holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium (University of Namur). Between 1995 and 1998, he was research associate and project manager at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Ma, USA). Between 1998 and 2006, he was a junior faculty in the Operations Research group ROSO within the Institute of Mathematics at EPFL. In 2006, he was appointed associate professor in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL, where he became the director of the Transport and Mobility laboratory. Since 2009, he is the director of TraCE, the Transportation Center. From 2009 to 2017, he was the director of Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL. In 2012, he was appointed full professor at EPFL. Since September 2017, he is the head of the Civil Engineering Institute at EPFL. His main expertise is in the design, development and applications of models and algorithms for the design, analysis and management of transportation systems. Namely, he has been active in demand modeling (discrete choice models, estimation of origin-destination matrices), operations research (scheduling, assignment, etc.) and Dynamic Traffic Management Systems. As of August 2021, he has published 136 papers in international journals, 4 books, 41 book chapters, 193 articles in conference proceedings, 182 technical reports, and has given 195 scientific seminars. His Google Scholar h-index is 68. He is the founder, organizer and lecturer of the EPFL Advanced Continuing Education Course "Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares". He is the founder of hEART: the European Association for Research in Transportation. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, from 2011 to 2019. He is an Associate Editor of Operations Research. He is the editor of two special issues for the journal Transportation Research Part C. He has been member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of Transportation Research Part B since 1995, of Transportation Research Part C since January 1, 2006.
Nava SetterNava Setter completed MSc in Civil Engineering in the Technion (Israel) and PhD in Solid State Science in Penn. State University (USA) (1980). After post-doctoral work at the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Geneva (Switzerland), she joined an R&D institute in Haifa (Israel) where she became the head of the Electronic Ceramics Lab (1988). She began her affiliation with EPFL in 1989 as the Director of the Ceramics Laboratory, becoming Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 1992. She had been Head of the Materials Department in the past and more recently has served as the Director of the Doctoral School for Materials.
Research at the Ceramics Laboratory, which Nava Setter directs, concerns the science and technology of functional ceramics focusing on piezoelectric and related materials: ferroelectrics, dielectrics, pyroelectrics and also ferromagnetics. The work includes fundamental and applied research and covers the various scales from the atoms to the final devices. Emphasis is given to micro- and nano-fabrication technology with ceramics and coupled theoretical and experimental studies of the functioning of ferroelectrics.
Her own research interests include ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics: in particular the effects of interfaces, finite-size and domain-wall phenomena, as well as structure-property relations and the pursuit of new applications. The leading thread in her work over the years has been the demonstration of how basic or fundamental concepts in materials - particularly ferroelectrics - can be utilized in a new way and/or in new types of devices. She has published over 450 scientific and technical papers.
Nava Setter is a Fellow of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the World Academy of Ceramics. Among the awards she received are the Swiss-Korea Research Award, the ISIF outstanding achievement award, and the Ferroelectrics-IEEE recognition award. In 2010 her research was recognized by the European Union by the award of an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant. Recently she received the IEEE-UFFC Achievement Award (2011),the W.R. Buessem Award(2011), the Robert S. Sosman Award Lecture (American Ceramics Society) (2013), and the American Vacuum Society Recognition for Excellence in Leadership (2013).