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Jürg Alexander Schiffmann
After 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.
Marcella Giovannini
2021-today: Operational Director of EPFL Neuchâtel Campus2009-2021: Deputy director of the Institute of Microengineering and of EPFL Neuchâtel Campus. 2001-2008: Position of Maître Assistant at the Physics Institute of University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).Initiator & Coordinator of the MICRO' event (www.micro08.ch). 2000-2001: Postdoctoral position at the Physics Institute of University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). 1996-2000: Ph.D. at EPFL. 1999: Internship in Max-Plank Institute, Halle, Germany in the frame of the Ph.D. thesis. 1996: Master Thesis in Physics, University of Geneva (Switzerland).