09:00 – 09:30 Registration & Welcome coffee
09:30 – 09:40 Welcome message
- Prof. Andreas Mortensen, Associate Vice President for Research
09:40 – 10:00 Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
- Luca Castiglioni, Head of Mobility Division
10:00 – 10:25 EPFL Presentations
- SWICE – Sustainable Wellbeing for the Individual and the Collectivity in the Energy Transition
Prof. Marilyne Andersen, Head of Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID) - EDGE – Enabling decentralized renewable generation in the Swiss cities, midlands, and the Alps
Prof. Michael Lehning, Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences (CRYOS)
10:25 – 10:50 Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
- Pierre Queloz, Deputy Head of Innovation Section
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 11:45 Swiss Federal Offices presentations
- Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO)
Maik Hömke, Head of the Road Research Division, Research Manager - Swiss Federal Office of Transport (FOT)
Stany Rochat, Head of the Energy Strategy Program in Public Transport 2050 - Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA)
Amanda Boekholt, Deputy Head of Strategy and Innovation - Swiss Federal Office of Civil Protection (FOCP)
Roland Bollin, Head of International Affairs
11:45 – 12:20 EPFL testimonials
- Prof. Alain Nussbaumer, Adjunct Professor in the Resilient Steel Structures Laboratory (RESSLab)
- Prof. Dolaana Khovalyg, Head of the Laboratory of Integrated Comfort Engineering (ICE)
- Prof. Edoardo Charbon, Head of the Advanced Quantum Architecture Lab (AQUA)
- Silvia Quarteroni, Chief Transformation Officer & Head of Innovation, The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
12:20 – 13:30 Networking lunch
13:30 – 13:45 State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
- Nicole Schaad, Deputy Head of National Research and Innovation & Head of Unit National Research
13:45 – 14:20 Swiss Federal Offices presentations
- armasuisse
Thomas Rothacher, Director Science and Technology - Cyber – Defence Campus, armasuisse
Vincent Lenders, Director
14:20 – 14:50 Coffee break
14:50 – 15:25 Swiss Federal Offices presentations
- Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO)
Bertrand Loison , Vice Director, Head of Division - Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)
Markus Weber, Deputy Head of Evaluation and Research Service - Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG)
Doris Herrmann, Head of Research, Consulting and Innovation - Swiss Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT)
Thierry Perroud, Head of CTO-Office - Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS)
Hugo Lehmann, Chief Partnership and Technology Transfer Officer - Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC)
Yves Fischer, Deputy Director
15:25 – 15:45 Closing remarks
- Jeroen Van Hunen, Head of the Research Office
15:45 – 16:30 Apéro
- #1 | Technology Transfer Office, EPFL
- #1 | Research Office, EPFL
- #2 | Library, EPFL
- #3 | International Affairs, EPFL
- #3 | Public Affairs, EPFL
- #4 | Extension School, EPFL
- #5 | Sustainability Unit , EPFL
- #6 | EssentialTech, EPFL
- #7 | Enterprise for Society center, EPFL
- #8 | Cyber-Defence Campus & armasuisse
- #9 | Swiss Federal Office of Transport (FOT)
- #9 | Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
- #1 | Low-carbon concrete hollow blocks as a sustainable solution for affordable houses in Africa
Alice Titus Bakera, STI (LMC)
Federal Office of Transport (FOT) & Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students - #2 | The role of process integration in the decarbonization of aluminium industry and urban district heating network: Net Zero Lab Valais
Daniel Florez-Orrego and Dareen Dardor, STI (IPESE)
Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) - #3 | Continuous education program: process engineering for decarbonization of the Swiss industry
Daniel Florez-Orrego, STI (IPESE)
Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) - #4 | SWICE – Sustainable Well-being for the Individual and the Collectivity in the Energy transition
Luisa Pastore, ENAC (LIPID)
Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) - #5 | Transition Zones of Local River Widening
Romain Van Mol, ENAC (HydraulicConstructions Platform)
Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) - #6 | Bedload transport continuity through local river widenings
Meghan Irving, ENAC (HydraulicConstructions Platform)
Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) - #7 | Study of the size effect on the seismic behaviour of masonry walls
Ernesto Inzunza Araya, ENAC (EESD)
Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) - #8 | Assessing restoration measures: first steps towards new-generation metapopulation models
Francesca Padoan, ENAC (HydraulicConstructions Platform)
Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) - #9 | Apollo: Social Key Recovery With Coercion Resistance
Shailesh Mishra, IC (DEDIS)
Cyber-Defence Campus & armasuisse - #10 | Evaluating the effectiveness of concept filtering in preventing harmful content generation by text-to-image models
Ana-Maria Cretu, IC (SPRING Lab)
Cyber-DefenceCampus & armasuisse - #11 | Firmware introspection to enforce security
Marcel Busch, IC (HexHive)
Cyber-Defence Campus & armasuisse - #12 | Physics-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks for Soft Sensing in Industrial Internet of Things
Keivan Faghih Niresi, ENAC (IMOS Lab)
Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS) - #13 | Cartographie de la consommation de tabac et des comportements liés au tabagisme en Suisse
Stéphane Joos, ENAC (GEOME-LGB)
Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) - #14 | A Position Mining Tool for Peace Mediation Support
Mariazel Maqueda López, VP Centres (LSIR)
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD) - #15 | Causal inference in machine learning
Negar Kiyavash, CDM (BAN)
Federal Statistical Office (FSO)
To learn more about the SFOD24 speakers, please download the full program PDF with the link below!
