School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)

Speaker: ​Yoram Shiftan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion, and the Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Urban and Regional Planning.  He specializes in travel behavior, transport policy, and transport project evaluation.  He established and for the last five years was the head of the Israeli Center for Smart Transportation Research, the past editor of Transport Policy, and the past chair of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR).  He has 35 years of experience in both academic and practical work in travel behavior and travel demand model estimation for major metropolitan areas such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Tel-Aviv, and was one of the main contributors to the development of Activity-Based Models.  In recent years, his research has focused on the activity and travel behavior implications of driverless cars, new mobility services, and their potential impact on our cities.  Professor Shiftan also has vast experience in the evaluation and decision-making process of major transportation investments both in Israel and the US, currently consulting the Israel Government on the cost-benefit analysis of the Tel-Aviv metro system, an estimated investment of over 40 billion USD.  Prof. Shiftan received his Ph.D. from MIT, has published over a hundred refereed papers, and co-edited five books.  Overall, he spent 4.5 years as a visiting professor at leading universities in Europe and the US: George Mason, VA., University of Michigan, Ohio State University, ETH Zurich, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Northwestern, IL, and currently he is on Sabbatical at ETH Zurich again.   
Location:  GC B1 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Speaker: Dr. Georgios Mavromatidis, Head of the Urban Energy Systems Laboratory at EMPA and lecturer at ETH Zurich
Location:  GC B1 10 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Speaker: Ioanna Piniara
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Marko MALJKOVIC
Location:  GC C3 30 &  Online
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Location:  EPFL campus
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Location:  Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions
Target audience: General public

Location:  Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Various Speakers: Sarah Wigglesworth, London Jean-Marc Besse, Paris Michael Jakob, Geneva Jean-Louis Violeau, Nantes Paolo Scrivano, Milan Angelika Schnell, Vienne Irina Davidovici, Zurich Paul Landauer, Paris
Location:  Archizoom &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Prof./Dr. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Kathlyn Kao, (non-)Swiss Architects
Location:  Domushaus
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Speaker: Various speakers, Irina Podgorny (CONICET)
Location:  SG 1212
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Eve Blatti, Julien Pathé, Elodie Vautrin
Location:  GC B1 10 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Speaker: Jeffrey Huang (EPFL), Mario Carpo (UCL), Lidia Gasperoni (UCL), Refik Anadol (Los Angeles), Matias del Campo (TU Wien / NYIT), Immanuel Koh (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Kyle Steinfeld (UC Berkeley), Mark Wilson-Jones (University of Cambridge), Noam Elcott (Columbia University), Catherine Griffiths (Columbia GSAPP), Orit Halpern (TU Dresden), Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Daniela Rus (MIT CSAIL), Olaf Blanke (EPFL Brain Mind Institute), Miriam Kyselo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Philip Yuan (Tongji University / ArchiUnion), Fabio Gramazio (ETH Zurich) 
Location:  Ca Giustinian, Venice
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Dr. Francesca Bassani
Location:  GC B1 10 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse
Location:  Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Ambrogio Fasoli, Nicolas Grandjean
Location:  SG 294.22 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Speaker: Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California Los Angeles)
Location:  SG 1212 – Archizoom
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Estefania MOMPEAN BOTIAS
Location:  SG 1212 &  Online
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Speaker: Estefania Mompean Botias
Location:  SG 1212 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public