Francesco GramugliaFrancesco Gramuglia received the MEng degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 2016. From 2015 to 2016 he was a trainee in the STORMlab of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked on the development of robotic endoscope platforms. In 2016 he received the Best Application Prize and Overall Winner at Surgical Robot Challenge during the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics at Imperial College, London, 2016. Since 2017, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the EPFL in the Advanced Quantum Architecture laboratory (AQUA) under the advising of Prof. Edoardo Charbon and Claudio Bruschini, PhD. His research is focused on the design of SPAD based CMOS image sensors and system development for use in biomedical applications, e.g. Time-of-flight Positron emission tomography (TOFPET).
Fadi Atef BayoudFadi is a strategic management professional with over 20 years of experience. His work concentrates on advising companies and educational institutes on how to adapt to the 21st century complexity and how to overcome its disruptive nature by adopting innovative processes and technologies. Throughout his career, he assumed roles in academia, R&D, product management, marketing and business development, project management, operations and strategic management.
For the last three years, he has been developing advisory solutions for strategic management, where he has advised several CEO’s on how to strategically transform, navigate disruption, and succeed in the future through i) adopting fit-for-purpose strategies and ii) changing the mindsets on how strategic change should be done and by whom.
In addition to his PhD at the EPFL in Engineering (ENAC/TOPO) in 2006, Fadi holds an MBA (2019) at Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK) with specialization in Strategic Management, two master engineering degrees from Greece (1999) and Canada (2002), an Executive Development at INSEAD (2017), and Construction Management at Columbia University (2017).
Muriel RichardMrs. Richard got her Masters degree in 1996 from the California Institute of Technology (USA) in Mechanical Engineering. She worked at the NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1994 till 2005, early on for the Mars Program, and then for the Advanced Propulsion Technology Group. She becomes a senior engineer in 2001 when she moves to JPLs Mission Architecture Group. In 2005, she was employed by the Space Center EPFL in Switzerland to manage the SwissCube satellite project, and later on to manage the Clean-mE research and technology development program on Active Debris Removal. Since January 2012, she is the Project Manager of the CleanSpace One mission.
