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Etudes à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich (ETHZ) en Suisse. Après son diplôme de cristallographe obtenu en 1966, il prépare sa thèse dans la même institution sous la direction du Prof. A. Niggli qui a été défendue en 1972. Il a poursuivi durant trois ans ses travaux de recherche au Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory en Californie dans le laboratoire du Prof. D. H. Templeton, spécialiste bien connu dans la champ de la diffraction résonante. De retour en Suisse, il rejoint l'Institut de cristallographie nouvellement créé à l'Université de Lausanne sous la direction du Prof. D. Schwarzenbach. En 1991, il est nommé professeur ordinaire puis en 1999, directeur de l'Institut de cristallographie. En 2003, son unité est transférée à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale à Lausanne où il est nommé professeur ordinaire.
G. Chapuis a présidé de nombreux comités et sociétés internationaux dans le domaine de la cristallographie. En particulier, il a présidé le comité des structures apériodiques de l'Union Internationale de cristallographie (IUCr). Il est également membre de la commission de l'enseignement de cette même organisation. Il a également présidé la société suisse de cristallographie.
G. Chapuis est co-éditeur du Journal Acta Crystallographica et participe dans de nombreux comités de lectures pour différentes revues scientifiques consacrées à la cristallographie et à la physique du solide.
Ses domaines de recherche couvrent plus spécifiquement l'étude théorique et expérimentale des structures apériodiques et en particulier les structures incommensurables par diffraction et dynamique moléculaire. Il est l'auteur de plus de trois cents articles scientifiques publiés dans des revues internationales avec arbitrage. De plus G. Chapuis se consacre au développement interactif de l'enseignement de la cristallographie avec les nouvelles technologies de communication accessibles sur Internet.
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).
Caroline VandevyverCaroline Vandevyver received her degree in biochemistry in 1985 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and her Ph.D. degree in biotechnology at the same university in 1989. She joined the Biomedical Research Institute "Dr. L- Willems Instituut" in Hasselt, Belgium, in 1989. Subsequently, she has worked there on T cell mediated autoimmune diseases (Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis), genetic association and linkage studies in multifactorial diseases, mutation analysis of genetic disorders (Phenylketonuria, alpha 1 anti-trypsine deficiency, congenital adrenal hyperplasia) and the development of active and passive immune therapies for cancer. She joined EPFL in 2000 at the Laboratory of Chemical Biotechnology headed by Prof. Ruth Freitag, where she was responsible for the cell culture lab and the (recombinant) protein purification and characterization. She joined the Laboratory of Lanthanide Supramolecular Chemistry (LCSL) in May 2006, where she was responsible for the live cell imaging project with Lanthanide complexes. In 2005, she joined the Office of the Research Commission. Her duties there were the management of national and international fellowship programs, the management of local research awards and the promotion of research performed at EPFL. In August 2013, she was nominated coordinator of the International Funding, one of the pillars of the Research Office at EPFL. Since January 2017, she is the Head of EPFL's Research Office.
