Jamie PaikProf. Jamie Paik is founder and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and a core member of Swiss NCCR robotics group. The RRL leverages expertise in multi-material fabrication and smart material actuation for novel robot designs. She received her PhD in Seoul National University on designing humanoid arm and a hand while being sponsored by Samsung Electronics. This 7-DoF humanoid arm was the lightest in the literature at that time being 3.7kg including the 8-DoF hand. During her Postdoctoral positions in the Institut des Systems Intelligents et de Robotic in Universitat Pierre Marie Curie, Paris VI, she developed laparoscopic tools named JAiMY that are internationally patented and commercialized now by Endocontrol-medical.com. At Harvard University’s Microrobotics Laboratory, she started developing unconventional robots that push the physical limits of material and mechanisms. Her latest research effort is in soft robotics including self-morphing Robogami (robotic origami) that transforms its planar shape to 2D or 3D by folding in predefined patterns and sequences, just like the paper art, origami.
Jean-Philippe AnsermetJean-Philippe Ansermet was born March 1, 1957 in Lausanne (legal origin Vaumarcus, NE). He obtained a diploma as physics engineer of EPFL in 1980. He went on to get a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where, from 1985 to 1987, he persued as post-doc with Prof. Slichter his research on catalysis by solid state NMR studies of molecules bound to the surface of catalysts. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the materials research center of Ciba-Geigy, on polymers for microelectronics, composites, dielectrics and organic charge transfer complexes. In March 1992, as professor of experimental physics, he developed a laboratory on the theme of nanostructured materials and turned full professor in 1995. Since 1992, he teaches classical mechanics, first to future engineering students, since 2004 to physics majors. Since 2000, he teaches thermodynamics also, to the same group of students. He offers a graduate course in spintronics, and another on spin dynamics. His research activities concern the fabrication and properties of magnetic nanostructures produced by electrodeposition. His involvement since the early days of spintronics have allowed him to gain recognition for his work on giant magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR), magnetic relaxation of single nanostructures, and was among the leading groups demonstrating magnetization reversal by spin-polarized currents. Furthermore, his group uses nuclear magnetic resonance , on the one hand as means of investigation of surfaces and electrodes, on the other hand, as a local probe of the electronic properties of complex ferromagnetic oxides.
Dimitrios KyritsisResearch
? Computer Aided Process Planning for Manufacture, Assembly, Disassembly,
? Petri- net modeling with applications in Manufacturing,
? Closed-loop Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) using Product Embedded Information Devices (PEID),
? Engineering Asset Management,
? Ontology-Based Engineering.
Membership and Services in Professional Organizations
? Chair of IFIP-WG5.7 - Advance Production Management Systems, member since 2005
? Member of ASME since 1993
? Vice President/Secretary of ASME International Swiss Chapter, 1995-2006
? Member of the Board of MANUFUTURE-CH
? Founding Member of the new IFAC TC5.1 WG IFAC WG Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology
? Founding member of the Hellenic Maintenance Society since 2007
? Founding member of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) since 2007
Services in EPFL Committees
? Member of the Informatics Committee of DGM: 1999-2001
? Member of the Doctoral Program Committee of the Doctoral Program: Manufacturing Systems and Robotics, since 2002
? Member of the CCE (Conference du Coprs des Enseignants) of EPFL since 2007
Services in other Universities
? Member of the Administration Board of INP GI, the Industrial Engineering School of INP Grenoble, elected as Qualified External Personality, 2008-2013 and 2013-2016
? Invited professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France
? Invited professor at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
? Invited professor at the Paris-Tech, ENSAM, France
? Guest professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA
Services at the European Commission
? Member of the Advisory Group LEIT-NMBP
Services in International Research activities
? Referee of the international scientific journals CAD, Computers In Industry, Production Planning and Control and others as well as ASME and IEEE conferences, 1994 - today.
? Guest Editor of the special issue on CAPP of the international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software, 25, 1996.
? Member of the Editorial Board of the international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software, 1996-today.
? Project Technical Advisor of two BRITE/EURAM-CRAFT projects in the field of CAD/CAM, 1995-1997.
? Evaluator of BRITE/EURAM projects (November 1997 evaluation).
? Invited expert at the IMS Workshop, EC, February 2002.
? Evaluator of FP6-NMP-IP projects (April 2003 evaluation).
? Invited expert at MANUFUTURE 2003.
? Evaluator of NEST projects (2005)
? Invited expert at IMS-NoE FP7 Roadmap Workshops on manufacturing organised by the European Commission.
? Invited expert at MANUFUTURE-CH, 2005-today.
? Invited expert at MIT RFID Academic Convocation, 2006.
? Founding member of the International Working Group on PLM, 2007- .
? Reviewer of EPSRC program proposals, UK, 2008.
? Reviewer of the National UK Research Prorgam IMRC, 2008.
? Reviewer of the National Greek Research Program Competitiveness-Enterpeneurship, 2009.
Organisation of Conferences
? Organiser and chairman of two technical sessions on CAPP, in the 1994 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 11- 14 September 1994.
? Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium for Electromachining-ISEM-XI, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 17-21, 1995. Also co-editor of the Conference Proceedings.
? Program co-chairman and member of the Organizing Committee of the First International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems [IMS-EUROPE 1998], held in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 15-17, 1998. Also co-editor of the Conference Proceedings.
? Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 16th IMACS WORLD CONGRESS 2000 on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 21-25, 2000.
? General Secretary of the International Symposium TMCE 2004, April 13-17, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Advisory Committee of the international conference IMS-Forum 2004, Como, Italy, May 2004.
? Organiser and chairman of two sessions (SIG5), IMS-Forum 2004, Como, Italy, May 2004.
? Organiser and chairman of a session at INCOM 2006, May 2006, Saint-Etienne, France.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2006, July 2006, Brisbane, Australia.
? Member of the Program Committee of the international conference ASI 2006, September 2006, Kassel, Germany.
? Member of the Technical Programme Committee of the international conference APMS 2006 (IFIP-WG5.7), September 2006, Wroclaw, Poland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2007, April 2007, Harrogate, UK.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference EURASIP 2007.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference PLM 2007, July 2007, Milan, Italy.
? Organiser and chairman of the session on Sustainable Manufacturing of the Internationla IMS workshop, November 2007, Zürich, Switzerland.
? General Chair of the 1st IMS MTP Workshop, April 2008, Bern, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference EURASIP 2008.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference PLM 2008, July 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
? General Chair of the 2nd IMS MTP Workshop, October 2008, Montreux, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2008, October 2008, Beijing, China.
? Program Chair & Coordinator of the IMS World Congress: Engineering a Sustainable Future, November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.
? Congress Chair of the the international congress WCEAM 2009, 28-30 September 2009, Athens, Greece (www.wceam.com). Philippe RenaudPhilippe Renaud is Professor at the Microsystem Laboratory (LMIS4) at EPFL. He is also the scientific director of the EPFL Center of MicroNanoTechnology (CMI). His main research area is related to micronano technologies in biomedical applications (BioMEMS) with emphasis on cell-chips, nanofluidics and bioelectronics. Ph. Renaud is invloved in many scientifics papers in his research area. He received his diploma in physics from the University of Neuchâtel (1983) and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Lausanne (1988). He was postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley (1988-89) and then at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory in Switzerland (1990-91). In 1992, he joined the Sensors and Actuators group of the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was appointed assistant professor at EPFL in 1994 and full professor in 1997. In summer 1996, he was visiting professor at the Tohoku University, Japan. Ph. Renaud is active in several scientific committee (scientific journals, international conferences, scientific advisory boards of companies, PhD thesis committee). He is also co-founder of the Nanotech-Montreux conference. Ph. Renaud is committed to valorization of basic research through his involvement in several high-tech start-up companies.
Florian Maria WurmFlorian Wurm received his academic training as a Biologist and Molecular Geneticist at the University of Giessen. He joined the Hoechst AG (Behringwerke) in Marburg as head of a laboratory in Virology. Working with immortalized mammalian cells for the establishment of production processes for alpha-interferons provided the first opportunity to combine basic research with medical application. In 1984 he joined Harvard Medical School in Boston as a Research Fellow in Molecular Biology. 1986 he took an offer from Genentech Inc. in San Francisco to work in Process Sciences on the development of large scale manufacturing processes for recombinant proteins. There he has held a number of leading positions and has acquired intimate knowledge in the generation of protein pharmaceuticals in mammalian cells in bioreactors (a number of which are now marketed products). In 1995 he joined the EPFL as a Professor for Biotechnology. Wurm has published more than 250 scientific papers and holds more than 20 patents/patent-applications. His H-index stands at 60 in 2021. He was Chairman (2005-2009) and is member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Animal Cell Technology (ESACT). He serves as a consultant to the pharmaceutical Biotech Industry, mainly in the fields of animal cell technology for recombinant protein production and in regulatory affairs. He works as a scientific reviewer and editior/asscciate editor for a number of international journals in the Biotech field. F.M. Wurm teaches classes to pre- and postgraduate students in the fields of Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology.
He was founder and Chief Scientific Officer of ExcellGene SA, a 2001 established company in Monthey, Switzerland. He took the position of President and CEO of ExcellGene in 2015. He retired from the CEO position in 2017 and continues to be President and Chief Scientific Officer of ExcellGene.
In 2008 Dr. Wurm was appointed Visiting Professor for Biotechnology at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. He retired from his position at the EPFL in 2015. His laboratory is closed. With his team at ExcellGene and in collaboration with Dr. Paco Pino, Director of R&D, he continues to explore manufacturing sciences with animal cells in bioreactors.
Jürg Alexander SchiffmannAfter obtaining his diploma in mechanical engineering from EPFL in 1999 he co-founded a start-up company dedicated to the design of gas bearing supported rotors. In 2005 he joined Fischer Engineering Solutions where he led the development of small-scale, gas bearing supported high-speed turbomachinery for fuel cell air supplies and for domestic scale heat pumps. In parallel he worked on his PhD, which he obtained from EPFL in 2008 and for which he was awarded the SwissElectric Research Award. He then joined the Gas Turbine Lab at MIT as a postdoctoral associate where he worked on foil bearings and on the experimental investigation of radial diffusers. In 2013 he was nominated assistant professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he founds the Laboratory for Applied Mechanical Design. His current research interest are in gas lubricated bearings, in aerodynamics of small-scale compressors and turbines and in automated design and optimization methodologies.
