Science formelle

Since 2009

Secretary General , World Energy Council (WEC).

Since 2006

Titulary Professor , Advisor to the President of EPFL and EPFL's Energy Center on energy issues. Expertise: International energy & environment policy and strategy.

2001-2009

Senior Director , Energy Industries & Strategy at the World Economic Forum (WEF); Member of the Forum's Executive Council.

2002-2003

Lecturer , postgraduate course on "Energy Systems in an Economywide Framework", for the Master of Science in Energy Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).

2001-2003

European Master in Applied Ethics , Ethics Centre, University of Zurich; specialisation in multi-stakeholder theory.

2000-2001

Research fellow at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology – co-lecturing "Socio-economic aspects of Energy Systems".

1996-2000

Dr ès Sciences , PhD thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (PSI). Domain: Modelling the links between Energy Policy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Welfare.

1997-2000

Master (DES) in Econometrics at the University of Geneva.

1995-1997

Master of Science in Energy Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL); specialisation in Energy Economics and Management.

1995-2001

Research fellow at the Laboratory of Energy Systems of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).

1989-1995

Dipl. El.-Ing. , graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ) (4th year in Lausanne); training/diploma thesis at the Institute of Microtechnique, University of Neuchâtel (UNINE) (solar cells research).

Martin Odersky heads the programming research group at EPFL. His research interests cover fundamental as well as applied aspects of programming languages. They include semantics, type systems, programming language design, and compiler construction. The main focus if his work lies in the integration of object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work concentrates on the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP, while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET. Martin Odersky got his doctorate from ETHZ, in 1989. He held research positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1989 and at Yale University from 1991. He was then a professor at the University of Karlsruhe from 1993 and at the University of South Australia from 1997. He joined EPFL as full professor in 1999. He is associate editor of the Journal of Functional Programming and member of IFIP WG 2.8. He was conference chair for ICFP 2000, and program chair for ECOOP 2004 as well as ETAPS/CC 2007.

Rachid Guerraoui has been affiliated with Ecole des Mines of Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked in a variety of aspects of distributed computing, including distributed algorithms and distributed programming languages. He is most well known for his work on (e-)Transactions, epidemic information dissemination and indulgent algorithms. He co-authored a book on Transactional Systems (Hermes) and a book on reliable distributed programming (Springer). He was appointed program chair of ECOOP 1999, ACM Middleware 2001, IEEE SRDS 2002, DISC 2004 and ACM PODC 2010. His publications are available at http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/rachid/papers/generalPublis.html