Rita Bütler SauvainParcours professionnel
Dès 2005: Collaboratrice scientifique (60%) à
l'Institut fédéral de recherche sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage (WSL)
20032005: Fonctionnaire scientifique (60%) à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
1997-2003: Première assistante (80%) à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
1996: Biologiste (100%) au
Service des forêts, de la faune et de la nature du canton de Vaud (SFFN)
, Lausanne
1993: Chargée de cours (30%) à l'Institut de préparation à la maturité (IPES), Lausanne
1992: Chargée de cours (100%)
NTB (Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik)
, Buchs
1991-92: Chef de projet et Chargée de cours (100%)
Technische Universität VŜST, Liberec, République tchèque
1989-91: Enseignante des sciences naturelles (50-100%)
Kantonssekundarschule (KKSS)
et
KSBG (Kantonsschule am Burggraben)
Formation
2003: Thèse pour le titre de Docteur ès sciences, EPF-Lausanne.
Dead wood in managed forests: how much and how much is enough? Development of a snag-quantification method by remote sensing and GIS and snag targets based on Three-toed woodpeckers' habitat requirements.
2003
Prix de recherche «Hintermann & Weber»
1995: Diplôme postgrade en Sciences de lenvironnement, EPF-Lausanne.
1989: Diplôme d'enseignement secondaire en sciences naturelles et mathématiques,
PHSG (Pädagogische Hochschule)
, St. Gallen
1989: Diplôme en Sciences naturelles, Haute Ecole Pédagogique, St-Gall.
1984: Maturité Type B Latin, Gymnase de St-Gall. Prix du meilleur examen.
Langues et informatique
Allemand: langue maternelle
Français: excellentes connaissances (bilinguisme)
Anglais: courant (parlé et écrit)
PC sous Windows, Bureautique (Office)
Statistique (Statistica), Systèmes dinformation géographique (MapInfo), Base de données (Access), Traitement dimage (Erdas Imagine).
Centres dintérêt
Ornithologie (ancien membre du comité de La Vaux-Lierre, centre de soins pour oiseaux sauvages ; relevés de terrain pour lAtlas des oiseaux nicheurs de Suisse, Sempach)
Botanique (relevés de terrain pour le Centre du réseau suisse de floristique, Genève)
Musique (piano, orgue, musique de chambre)
Basket (ancien membre actif en LNB et membre de comité dune association de basket pendant 5 ans)
Rodolphe SchlaepferExamples of international experience:
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Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers)
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Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes)
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Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources)
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Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK
Scientific education:
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry),
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University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics),
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University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry),
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Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology).
Professional career:
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Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975),
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Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982),
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Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987),
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Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996),
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Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005)
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From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Anna Carratala RipollesDuring my PhD, I mainly focused on characterizing the effect of environmental factors (namely temperature and sunlight) and disinfectants on the stability of human viral pathogens as contaminants of aquatic environments. In addition,I developed a novel source tracking tool to identify avian fecal contamination in environmental samples. Thanks to a research fellowship given by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, I also had the opportunity to explore the diversity of marine viruses in Mediterranean coastal waters by genetic fingerprinting and by next generation sequencing. Later on, I became interested in the long-term effect of environmental stressors on virus communities, so I joined the LCE as a postdoc to investigate the adaptation of enteroviruses to ultraviolet radiation. For 4 years, I worked on developing UV-resistant viruses and characterizing their acquired phenotypic and genetic properties by combining directed evolution experiments, deep sequencing and population genetics. Out of the lab, I am passionate about nature, traveling and scuba diving.
Paolo BenettinI was born in Padova, Italy, in 1986. After high school, I started the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Padova (Bachelor and Master), where I followed the 'soil protection' curriculum. During my Master studies I spent a semester as Erasmus student at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) to follow courses in Hydrology. After graduation, I decided to bring my education further and I started a Ph.D. at the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Padova. My Ph.D. thesis focused on hydrologic transport and travel time distributions at the catchment scale. My contribution to the subject included both new theoretical formulations and extensive numerical applications to real catchments. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). Since I arrived at EPFL as post-doc in 2015, I started being involved in field and experimental activities, which allowed me to learn about practical experimental problems. In 2017 I had the opportunity to by hired by the ECHO laboratory as a permanent scientist, conducting research in the field of catchment hydrology.
