Past Visiting Professors - 2020
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Rahimpour AhmadVisit duration time (from – to): 01 March 2019 - 28 February 2020Affiliation: Babol Noushirvani University of Technology Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology Prof. Rahimpour received his Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of lsfahan in 2000. He entered graduate school in 2000 and upon completion of his studies in 2009 (MSc and PhD), he joined the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at Babol Noushirvani University of Technology as an Assistant Professor. |
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Chafe ChristopherVisit duration time (from – to): 14 October 2019 - 15 February 2020Affiliation: Stanford University Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Chris Chafe makes his compositions alongside computer-based research into sound and music. A composer, improvisor, and cellist, he is Director of Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). At IRCAM (Paris) and The Banff Centre (Alberta), he has pursued methods for digital synthesis, computer-mediated music performance and real-time internet collaboration. His team's online low-latency software project "jacktrip" is in use worldwide and research continues into latency factors affecting musical syncronization. An active performer either on the net or physically present, his work reaches audiences in dozens of countries and sometimes at novel venues, for example, a simultaneous five-country concert hosted at the United Nations a decade ago. His gallery and museum “musification” installations employ datasets from collaborations with scientists and MD’s. Recent work includes "Gnosisong" (brain waves, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City), "PolarTide" (sea level rise, Venice Biennale), "Tomato Music" (ripening tomatoes, transLife:media Festival at the National Art Museum of China) and "Sun Shot" played by the horns of large ships in the port of St. Johns, Newfoundland. |
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Icardi MatteoVisit duration time (from – to): 12 February 2020 - 12 May 2020Affiliation: School of Mathematical Sciences & GeoEnergy Research Centre Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology
Matteo Icardi is assistant professor of Applied and Industrial Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences and the GeoEnergy Research Centre at the University of Nottingham (UK). His research focuses on multiscale simulation, uncertainty quantification and model reduction with applications in a wide range of areas including rechargeable batteries, subsurface flows, and industrial transport processes. In particular he has recently worked on improving |
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Luthe TobiasVisit duration time (from – to): 01 March 2020 - 01 July 2020Affiliation: ETH Zurich Host Department: DAD - Department of Architecture and Design Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tobias Luthe is visiting from ETH Zurich and AHO Oslo for this spring semester 2020. Tobias Luthe will co-teach the course “open systems design” together with Prof. Peruccio and colleagues of the Institute of Design, developing circular economy systems for regional territories. He will engage in organizing a joint PhD summer school with ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne, taking place in September 2020 in Ostana, Valle Po, at the MonViso Institute (MVI). MVI is a real-world laboratory for sustainability transitions and regenerative design, founded by Prof. Luthe. He will establish closer bonds between MVI and Polito, both in teaching and research on real-world transitions and design. Together with colleagues at the DAD, he will co-author a paper on inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation between science, architecture, design and practice for advancing sustainability and regenerative systems through design. As well, Prof. Luthe will engage in building a European Master program in Systemic Regenerative Design between Polito, ETH, Delft, and AHO. |
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Abi-Zeid IreneVisit duration time (from – to): 03 May 2020 - 04 August 2020Affiliation: Laval University, Quebec, Canada Host Department: DIGEP - Department of Management and Production Engineering
Irène Abi-Zeid is a full professar specialized in multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) at Lavai University, Québec, Canada. Her current research activities are conducted along two major axes: 1- Search planning for search and rescue operalions as well as MCDA and machine leaming, with applications in transportation, urban planning, water quality and the health sector. She has developed MCDA-ULaval, an open source software implementing many ELECTRE multicriteria |
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KATUL GABRIEL GEORGEVisit duration time (from – to): 01 September 2020 - 01 December 2020Affiliation: Duke University Host Department: DIGEP - Department of Management and Production Engineering Gabriel G. Katul received his B.E. degree in 1988 at the American University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon), his M.S.degree in 1990 at Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR, USA) and his Ph.D degree in 1993 at the University of California in Davis (Davis, CA, USA). He currently holds the Theodore S. Coile Professorship of Hydrology and .Micrometeorology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA). He served as an associate editor for Advances in Water Resources (1998-present), Boundary Layer Meteorology (1998-present), Water Resources Research (2004-2009), the Vadoze zone journal (2000-2003) and served as one of the four editors-in-chief for Advances in Water Resources (2011-2014). He was a visiting scientist at the University of Virginia (in 1997), the Commonwealth Science and Industriai Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia (in 2002), at University of Helsinki (Finland) in 2009 and a FulBright-Italy Distinguished Fellow at Politecnico di Torino (ltaly) in 2010. He was also a visiting fellow at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2013, Nagoya University Gapan) in 2014, University of Helsinki (Finland) in 2017, and the Karlsruher lnstitute for Technology (Germany) in 2017. He received several honorary awards, including an honorary certificate by La Seccion de Agrofisica de la Sociedad Cubana de Fisica in Habana (in 1998), the Macelwane medal and became thereafter a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (in 2002), and the editor's citation for excellence in refereeing from the American Geophysical Union (in 2008). He also received the Scientific and Technological Achievement Award by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (in 2012). In 2012, he also received the Hydrologic Science Award from the American Geophysical Union and in 2018, he received the John Dalton medal from the European Geosciences Union. He served as the Secretary Generai for the Hydrologic Science Section at the American Geophysical Union (2006-2008). Research in Katul's lab focuses on micro-meteorology and near surface hydrology with emphasis on heat, momentum, carbon dioxide, water vapor, ozone, particulate matter (including aerosols, pollen, and seeds) and water transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere system as well as their implications to a plethora of hydrological, ecologica!, atmospheric and climate change related problems. Katul has authored or co-authored more than 390 peer-reviewed publications and 7 book chapters. |