Science for Sustainability

Sustainability is an integral component of the strategic priorities of our School. In 2023, EPFL launched “Solutions for Sustainability”, an ambitious initiative to create demonstrators on our campuses that will lead to solutions ready for scale-up. In parallel, long-term efforts are pursued in the areas of Energy Transition, Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change.
This conference will highlight the diversity and complementatiry of research projects, in a highly interactive format. Updates of research projects will be followed by moderated rountables allowing ample time for discussions and debates.

Programme

12:30pm – 12:40pm / Welcome notes and Introduction by Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli, Vice President and Provost

12:40pm – 13:15pm SESSION I: Energy Transition

• Prof. Mario Paolone, “Reimagining Data Centers as Energy Assets: the EPFL HeatingBits project”
• Prof. Chris Moser, “Decarbonization toward electrical self-reliance at EPFL”
• Moderated roundtable discussion

• Prof. Josie Hugues, “Robotics for Improving the Circularity of Food Systems” 
• Prof. Kumar Agrawal, “From Lab to Plant: Scaling Disruptive CCUS Technologies at EPFL” 
• Moderated roundtable discussion

• Prof. Ianina Altshuler, “Soil ecosystem services and microbe-mediate greenhouse gas fluxes”
• Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, “Can soil microbes control arsenic accumulation in rice?”
• Moderated roundtable discussion