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.
Programme
12:30 – 12:40 / Welcome notes and Introduction by Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli, Vice President and Provost
12:40 – 13:15 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 with the participation of Matthias Gäumann, CEO of HYDRO Exploitation SA
- Moderator: Max Chevron, Services industriels Lausanne
13:15 – 13:50 SESSION II: Technologies for Climate Neutrality
- 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
- Moderator: Julian Barth, President EPFL Carbon Team
13:50 – 14:25 SESSION III: Land and Soil Health
- 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
- Moderator: Fatima Azahraa El-Zein, Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship, EPFL
14:25 – 14:30 / Concluding remarks