Serge VaudenaySerge Vaudenay entered at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1989 with a major in mathematics. He earned his agrégation (secondary teaching degree) in mathematics in 1992, then a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot in 1995. He subsequently became a senior research fellow at the CNRS, prior to being granted his habilitation à diriger des recherches (a postdoctoral degree authorizing the recipient to supervise doctoral students). In 1999, he was appointed as a Professor at the EPFL, where he created the Security and Cryptography Laboratory.
Luc ThévenazDe nationalité suisse et né à Genève, Luc Thévenaz a obtenu en 1982 le diplôme de physicien, mention astrophysique, de l'Université de Genève et le doctorat ès sciences naturelles, mention physique, en 1988 de l'Université de Genève. C'est durant ces années de thèse qu'il a développé son domaine d'excellence, en l'occurrence les fibres optiques et leurs applications. En 1988, Luc Thévenaz a rejoint l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), où il dirige actuellement un groupe de recherche en photonique, notamment en optique dans les fibres et dans les capteurs. Ses domaines de recherche couvrent les capteurs à fibre optique basés sur la diffusion Brillouin, l'optique non-linéaire dans les fibres, la lumière lente et rapide et la spectroscopie laser dans les gaz. Ses réalisations principales sont: - l'invention d'une configuration innovante pour les capteurs répartis Brillouin, basée sur l'emploi d'une seule source laser, ce qui lui donne une grande stabilité intrinsèque et qui a permis de réaliser les premières mesures hors laboratoire avec ce type de capteur; - le développement d'un capteur de gaz à l'état de traces, basé sur une détection photoacoustique et utilisant une source laser à semi-conducteur dans le proche infra-rouge, pouvant détecter une concentration du gaz au niveau du ppb; - la première démonstration expérimentale de lumière lente et rapide dans les fibres optiques qui puissent être contrôlées par un autre faisceau lumineux, réalisées à température ambiante et fonctionnant à n'importe quelle longueur d'onde grâce à l'exploitation de la diffusion Brillouin. La première vitesse de groupe négative dans les fibres a aussi été démontrée selon le même principe. En 1991, il a visité l'Université PUC de Rio de Janeiro au Brésil, où il a travaillé sur la génération d'impulsions picoseconde avec des diodes laser. En 1991-1992 il a travaillé à l'Université de Stanford aux USA, où il a participé au développement d'un gyroscope basé sur un laser Brillouin à fibre. Il a rejoint en 1998 l'entreprise Orbisphere Laboratories SA à Neuchâtel en Suisse en tant qu'expert scientifique, avec pour tâche de développer des capteurs de gaz à l'état de traces, basés sur la spectroscopie laser photoacoustique. En 1998 and 1999 il a visité le Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) à Daejon en Corée du Sud, où il a travaillé sur des capteurs de courant électrique utilisant un laser à fibre optique. En 2000 il a été un des co-fondateurs de l'entreprise Omnisens SA à Morges en Suisse, qui développe et commercialise de l'instrumentation et des capteurs optiques de pointe. En 2007 il a visité l'Université de Tel Aviv, où il a étudié le contrôle tout-optique de la polarisation de la lumière dans les fibres optiques. Durant l'hiver 2010, il a séjourné à l'Université de Sydney en Australie (CUDOS: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems) où il a étudié les apllications de la diffusion Brillouin stimulée dans les guides d'onde à base de verres chalcogénures. En 2014, il a séjourné à L'Université Polytechnique de Valence en Espagne, où il a travaillé sur les applications photoniques pour les micro-ondes exploitant la diffusion Brillouin stimulée. Il a été membre du Consortium formé pour le projet européen FP7 GOSPEL "Gouverner la vitesse de la lumière", a été Président de l'Action Européenne COST 299 "FIDES: Les fibres optiques pour relever les nouveaux défis de la société de l'information" et est auteur ou co-auteur de quelques 480 publications et 12 brevets. Il est actuellement Coordinateur du projet H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks FINESSE (FIbre NErve Systems for Sensing). Il est co-Editeur-en-Chef de la revue "Nature Light: Science & Applications" et Membre du Comité Editorial (Editeur Associé) de la revues suivantes: "APL Photonics" et "Laser & Photonics Reviews". Il a été élevé au rang de "Fellow" par l'IEEE, ainsi que par la Société Optique (OSA).
Mario PaoloneMario Paolone received the M.Sc. (with honors) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2005, he was appointed assistant professor in power systems at the University of Bologna where he was with the Power Systems laboratory until 2011. In 2010, he received the Associate Professor eligibility from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since 2011 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is now Full Professor, Chair of the Distributed Electrical Systems laboratory and Head of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) FURIES (Future Swiss Electrical infrastructure). He was co-chairperson of the technical programme committees of the 9th edition of the International Conference of Power Systems Transients (IPST 2009) and of the 2016 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2016). He was chair of the technical programme committee of the 2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2018). In 2013, he was the recipient of the IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award. He was co-author of several papers that received the following awards: best IEEE Transactions on EMC paper award for the year 2017, in 2014 best paper award at the 13th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Durham, UK, in 2013 Basil Papadias best paper award at the 2013 IEEE PowerTech, Grenoble, France, in 2008 best paper award at the International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). He was the founder Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks and was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. His research interests are in power systems with particular reference to real-time monitoring and operation, power system protections, power systems dynamics and power system transients. Mario Paolone is author or coauthor of over 300 scientific papers published in reviewed journals and international conferences.
Andreas Peter BurgAndreas Burg was born in Munich, Germany, in 1975. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2000 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. He then joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory of ETH Zurich, from where he graduated with the Dr. sc. techn. degree in 2006.
In 1998, he worked at Siemens Semiconductors, San Jose, CA. During his doctoral studies, he was an intern with Bell Labs Wireless Research for a total of one year. From 2006 to 2007, he held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Integrated Systems Laboratory and at the Communication Theory Group of the ETH Zurich. In 2007 he co-founded Celestrius, an ETH-spinoff in the field of MIMO wireless communication, where he was responsible for the ASIC development as Director for VLSI. In January 2009, he joined ETH Zurich as SNF Assistant Professor and as head of the Signal Processing Circuits and Systems group at the Integrated Systems Laboratory.
In January 2011, he became a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he is leading the Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory in the School of Engineering. In June 2018 he was promoted to the role of a Tenured Associate Professor.
In 2000, Mr. Burg received the Willi Studer Award and the ETH Medal for his diploma and his diploma thesis, respectively. Mr. Burg was also awarded an ETH Medal for his Ph.D. dissertation in 2006. In 2008, he received a 4-years grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for an SNF Assistant Professorship. In his professional career, Mr. Burg was involved in the development of more than 25 ASICs. He is a member of the IEEE and of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
Research interests and expertise
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Circuits and systems for telecommunications (wireless and wired)
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Prototyping and silicon implementation of new communication technologies
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Development of communication algorithms and optimization for hardware implementation
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Low-power VLSI signal processing for communications and other applications
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Digital integrated circuits
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Circuits for image and video processing
John Christopher PlummerÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 1989-
Collaborateur Scientifique/Chargé de Cours (Lecturer) (1998-)
Privat Docent (1998)
Laboratoire de Technologie des Composites et Polymères (LTC) (2000-)
Laboratoire de Polymères (LP) (1998-2000)
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (UMICH), Ann Arbor, MI, USA 1995-1996
Visiting Scientist, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, UK 1986-1989
Research Assistant, Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group (PCS), Department of Physics
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, UK, Department of Materials 1986
PhD, "Flux Pinning in Type-II Superconductors"
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, UK, 1982
BA/MA Honours Degree in Natural Sciences
Awards
Prix R&R Haenny, 2007, DuPont Research Award, 2003, Commendation, British Polymer Group, Reading 1989
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ramier J, Da Costa N, Plummer CJG, Leterrier Y, Manson JAE, Eckert R, Gaudiana R, Cohesion and adhesion of nanoporous TiO2 coatings on titanium wires for photovoltaic applications, Thin solid films, 516, 1913 (2008).
Ramier J, Plummer CJG, Leterrier Y, Manson JAE, Eckert B, Gaudiana R, Mechanical integrity of dye-sensitized photovoltaic fibers, Renewable energy, 33, 314 (2008).
- Houphouet-Boigny C, Plummer CJG, Wakeman MD, Manson JAE, Hybrid glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic nanocomposites, J. Thermoplast. Comp. Mater., 21, 103 (2008).
Ternat C, Ouali L, Sommer H, Fieber W, Velazco MI, Plummer CJG, Kreutzer G, Klok HA, Manson JAE, Herrmann, Investigation of the Release of Bioactive Volatiles from Amphiphilic Multiarm Star-Block Copolymers by Thermogravimetry and Dynamic Headspace Analysis, Macromolecules 41(19), 7079 (2008).
Ruggerone, R., Plummer, C.J.G., Negrete Herrera, N., Bourgeat-Lami, E., Månson, J-EA, Mechanical properties of highly filled latex-based polystyrene/laponite nanocomposites, Solid State Phenomena Vol. 151, 30 (2009).
Plummer, CJG, Dalle Vacche, S, Houphouët-Boigny, C, Michaud, V, Månson, JAE, Hybrid Glass Mat Reinforced Polypropylene-Montmorillonite Nanocomposites, Solid State Phenomena Vol. 151, 60 (2009).
Ruggerone, R., Plummer, C.J.G., Negrete Herrera, N., Bourgeat-Lami, E., Månson, J-EA, Highly filled polystyrenelaponite nanocomposites prepared by emulsion polymerization, European Polm. J. 45, 621 (2009).
Ruggerone, R., Plummer, C.J.G., Negrete Herrera, N., Bourgeat-Lami, E., Månson, J-EA, Fracture mechanisms in polystyrene/laponite nanocomposites prepared by emulsion polymerization, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 76, 2846 (2009)
Clausen P., Andreoni W., Curioni A., Hughs E., Plummer C.J.G. Adsorption of low-molecular-weight molecules on the surface of a sodium smectite clay: an ab initio study, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113, 12293 (2009).
Clausen P., Andreoni W., Curioni A., Hughs E., Plummer C.J.G., Water adsorption on a sodium smectite clay surface: an ab initio study, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113, 15218 (2009).
Molberg, M, Leterrier, Y., Plummer, C.J.G., Walder, C., Löwe, C., Opris, D.M., Nüesch, F.A., Bauer, S., Månson, J.-A.E., Frequency dependent dielectric and mechanical behaviour of elastomers for actuator applications, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 054112 (2009)
Clausen P., Signorelli M., Schreiber A., Hughes E., Plummer CJG, Fessas D., Schiraldi A., Månson E. J.-A., Equilibrium desorption isotherms of water, ethanol, ethyl acetate and toluene on a sodium smectite clay, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 98, 833 (2009)
Micusik, M., Bonnefond, A., Reyes, Y., Bogner, A., Chazeau, L., Plummer, C.J.G., Paulis, M., Leiza, J.R., Morphology of Polymer/Clay Latex Particles Synthesized by Miniemulsion Polymerization: Modeling and Experimental Results Macromol. React. Eng. 2010, 4, 432 (2010).
Houphouet-Boigny C., Plummer CJG, Vacche SD, Michaud V, Wakeman MD, Månson E. J.-A., Hybrid Glass Mat-reinforced Polypropylene-Montmorillonite Nanocomposites, J. Comp. Mater. 44, 1975 (2010).
Delabarde, C., Plummer C.J.G., Bourban, P.-E., Månson E. J.-A., Solidification behavior of PLLA/nHA nanocomposites, Comp. Sci. & Tech. 70, 1813 (2010).
Plummer C.J.G., Ruggerone R., Negrete-Herrera N., Bourgeat-Lami E., Månson J.-A.E., Small Strain Mechanical Properties of Latex-Based Nanocomposite Films, Macromol. Symp. 294, 1 (2010).
Dalle Vacche, S., Plummer C.J.G., Houphouet-Boigny C., Månson E. J.-A., Morphology and mechanical properties of isotactic polypropylene glass mat thermoplastic composites modified with organophilic montmorillonite, J Mater Sci 46, 2112 (2011). Martin OderskyMartin Odersky heads the programming research group at EPFL. His research interests cover fundamental as well as applied aspects of programming languages. They include semantics, type systems, programming language design, and compiler construction. The main focus if his work lies in the integration of object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work concentrates on the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP, while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET.
Martin Odersky got his doctorate from ETHZ, in 1989. He held research positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1989 and at Yale University from 1991. He was then a professor at the University of Karlsruhe from 1993 and at the University of South Australia from 1997. He joined EPFL as full professor in 1999. He is associate editor of the Journal of Functional Programming and member of IFIP WG 2.8. He was conference chair for ICFP 2000, and program chair for ECOOP 2004 as well as ETAPS/CC 2007.
Pierre-André FarinePierre-André Farine received the Doctoral and Engineering Degrees in Microtechnology from University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, respectively in 1984 and 1978, and the Engineering in Microtechnology from ETS Le Locle in 1974.
He was working 17 years for the Swiss watch industries (Swatch Group), including developments for high-tech products, such as pager watches, watches including integrated sensors such as pressure, compass, altimeter and temperature sensors for Tissot. He was also involved in prototypes developments for watches including GPS and cellular GSM phones.
Since 8 years, he is Professor in Electronics and Signal Processing at the Institute of Microtechnology IMT, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Full professor at EPFL since January 1st, 2009, he works in the field of low-power integrated products for portable devices, including microelectronics for wireless telecommunications, UWB and GNSS systems. He is Head of the Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory ESPLAB of the EPFL IMT-NE. His laboratory works also for video and audio compression algorithms and their implementation in low power integrated circuits.
Paolo RicciPaolo Ricci earned his masters degree in nuclear engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy) in 2000. His doctoral studies were conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with focus on kinetic simulation of magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail. He spent two-and-a-half years as a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College's Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he worked on gyrokinetic simulations of the Z pinch. He joined the EPFL's Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), as a EURATOM fellow in 2006, was named Tenure Track Assistant Professor in June 2010, and Associate Professor in August 2016. He is at the head of the SPC theory group. Paolo Ricci is the recipient of the 2016 Section de Physique Teaching Prize and of the 2021 Craie d'Or award from the EPFL physics bachelor students.
