Symposium Research & Sustainability
Event details
| Date | 16.05.2024 |
| Hour | 08:15 › 19:00 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Programme
08h15 – 08h45: Morning coffee
Chairperson: Prof. Gisou van der Goot
SESSION II: School-wide panorama of research projects on Sustainability
Chairperson: Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke
SESSION III: Selected EPFL Centers
Chairperson: Prof. Katrin Beyer
SESSION IV: Solutions 4 Sustainability – Projects I
Chairperson: Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli
SESSION V: Solutions 4 Sustainability – Projects II
Chairperson: Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
SESSION VI: Invited contribution & Discussion
Chairperson: Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Internal event. Free entrance but registration is mandatory.
08h15 – 08h45: Morning coffee
- 08h45 – 09h00: Welcome notes and introductory remarks by Prof. Gisou van der Goot, Vice President for Responsible Transformation and Professor and Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Associate Vice President for Centers and Platforms and Professor
Chairperson: Prof. Gisou van der Goot
- 09h00 – 09h40: Invited talk & Discussion by Prof. Sonia Seneviratne, ETH Zurich, Deputy head of Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
- 09h40 – 10h00: The Politics of Sustainability by Prof. Michaël Aklin, Chair of Policy and Sustainability
- 10h00 – 10h20: Lighthouse programmes for sustainability research: why they are needed by Prof. Peter Edwards, SCNAT Swiss Academy of Sciences
SESSION II: School-wide panorama of research projects on Sustainability
Chairperson: Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke
- 10h40 – 12h10:
- Multi-Disciplinary Solutions for Sustainable Computing in the Digital Era by Prof. David Atienza, Ecocloud Center & Embedded Systems Lab
- Fungal Factories for Materials by Prof. Tiffany Abitbol, Sustainable Materials Lab
- Solar-driven fuel production using semiconductor photocatalysts by Prof. Kevin Sivula, Lab. of Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronics Nanomaterials
- Resisting climate change: Using seascape genomics to identify environmentally robust coral genotypes by Dr Ana Maria Jaksic, Experimental Evolutionary Neurobiology Lab
- Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions research by Prof. Athanasios Nenes, Lab. of atmospheric processes and their impacts
- 12h10 – 12h30: Presentation of 2 MAKE projects:
- rebuiLT - Eco-construction, reuse and integration of Low-Techs in urban areas by Catherine Juneau, AR-MA4 et Camille Rieux, AR-MA2
- GenoRobotics by Maximilian Wettstein, SV-MA4
SESSION III: Selected EPFL Centers
Chairperson: Prof. Katrin Beyer
- 13h20 – 14h20: Presentation on:
- eSpace by Emmanuelle David
- Energy Center by Dr Yasmine Calisesi
- Enterprise 4 Society by Dr Maria Paula Cacault
- EssentialTech - Sustainability and extreme vulnerability by Dr Klaus Schönenberger
- Center for Worldwide Sustainable Construction by Dr Anne Dekeukelaere
- CLIMACT by Dr Nicolas Tétreault
SESSION IV: Solutions 4 Sustainability – Projects I
Chairperson: Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli
- 14h20 – 15h10:
- SusEcoCUSS - Energy-efficient carbon capture, usage & storage for sustainable and circular economy by Prof. Kumar Agrawal, Gaznat Chair for Advanced Separations
- Heating Bits - Reducing the carbon footprint of data centers by Prof. Mario Paolone, Distributed Electrical Systems Lab
SESSION V: Solutions 4 Sustainability – Projects II
Chairperson: Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
- 15h40 – 17h00:
- CO2 Monitoring & Reduction in Food Systems Through Circular Economy by Prof. Josie Hughes, Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab (lecture delivered via video conference)
- MegaBites - Measuring, modeling, and improving the sustainability of EPFL’s food system by Dr Vincent Moreau, Data Science Lab
- New Plasma-based Sterilization Methods by Prof. Ivo Furno, Basic Plasma Physics
- Solar steam - for sterilization and conditioning of laboratory animal facilities by Dr Anna Krammer, Scientist, ENAC
- H2elios Neurocam by Prof. Christophe Moser, Lab. of Applied Photonics Devices
SESSION VI: Invited contribution & Discussion
Chairperson: Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
- 17h00 – 18h00: Science meets the major challenges of sustainability and the climate crisis by Prof. Harry Atwater, Caltech (lecture delivered via video conference) followed by Q&A moderated discussions and closing remarks by Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral & Prof. Gisou van der Goot
Internal event. Free entrance but registration is mandatory.
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- Registration required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- VPT, VPA-CP-R, Energy Center, E4S, Climact, Mediacom