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CLIMACT Scholars

Workshop "Beyond Academia: EPFL & UNIL Alumni Impacting Climate Change"

Date

May 8, 2024

Time

14:00 - 16:00

Venue

Aula IDHEAP, UNIL campus

Past events

Extreme weather events (droughts, floods, cyclones, heatwaves, cold snaps)
Climate change

From drought to flood: water extremes under climate change

Date

Mar 18, 2024

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Venue

GEO-1620, UNIL campus

Presented by
Prof.
Prof. Manuela Brunner

Assistant professor at the Institute for Atmosphe...
ETH Zurich & WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

Prof.
Prof. Tom Beucler

Assistant professor and head of the the Data-driv...
FGSE, UNIL

Climate change
Climate science
Education

Exhibition "Key aspects and current issues of climate change"

Date

Mar 8, 2024

Time

08:00 - 16:00

Venue

SV Hall, EPFL campus

Networking
Climate change

CLIMACT Spring-tastic Apero

Date

Mar 4, 2024

Time

16:30 - 18:30

Venue

Le Perchoir, Vortex

Mobility

Décarboner la mobilité : de l'Accord de Paris à la Ville de Lausanne

Date

Mar 4, 2024

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Presented by
Prof.
Prof. Vincent Kaufmann

Associate Professor and head of the Urban Sociolo...
ENAC, EPFL

Núria Medir Benito

Head of the mobility division, Lausanne

Communication
Digital communication
Sustainability and behaviour change
Climate change

Innovative communication strategies: Bridging science, storytelling and social media

Date

Feb 19, 2024

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Presented by
Luka Biernacki

Prof.
Prof. Ewa Lombard

Jonathan Lemieux

CLIMACT Starting Grants

Hightlights on the 2022 CLIMACT Starting Grants (Part 2)

Date

Feb 5, 2024

Time

11:00 - 12:15

CLIMACT Starting Grants

Highlights on the 2022 CLIMACT Starting Grants (Part 1)

Date

Jan 22, 2024

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Climate change
Education

Poster Conference "Key aspects and current issues of climate change"

Date

Dec 14, 2023

Time

14:00 - 16:30

Venue

CO building, 1st floor, EPFL campus

Carbon capture and sequestration
Advanced materials

Innovations in carbon capture: porous materials and atom-thick films

Date

Dec 11, 2023

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Presented by
Prof.
Prof. Wendy Queen

Associate professor and head of the Laboratory of...
EPFL

Prof.
Prof. Kumar Agrawal

Associate professor and Gaznat Chair for Advanced...
EPFL

Climate change

Climate crisis: nature-based resilience

Date

Nov 27, 2023

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Presented by
Prof.
Prof. Edouard Davin

Professor of climate scenarios for sustainable de...

Dr.
Dr. Peter Bebi

Head of the Mountain Ecosystem group and CERC (Cl...

Atmospheric science
Aviation industry
Contrails

Flying into the future: aviation's climate challenge

Date

Nov 13, 2023

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Presented by
Dr.
Dr. Agnieszka Skowron

Research associate at Manchester Metropolitan Uni...

Dr.
Dr. Edward Gryspeerdt

Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imper...

Atmospheric science

CLIMACT Atmospheric Science Day 2023

Date

Nov 10, 2023

Time

07:30 - 16:00

Venue

IDHEAP Aula, UNIL campus

Energy
Carbon capture and sequestration

Rethinking carbon: the biochar effect

Date

Oct 30, 2023

Time

11:00 - 12:15

Presented by
Dr.
Dr. Berta Moya

Carbon removal sourcing manager at Carbonfuture

Dr.
Dr. Nikolas Hagemann

Collaborator at Agroscope in the research group “...

Research
CLIMACT Scholars

How to set up an efficient publication strategy

Date

Oct 30, 2023

Time

07:30 - 10:30

Venue

Room IDHEAP - 004

Energy
SWISS ENERGY TRANSITION

The energy transition is a SWEET deal

Date

Oct 16, 2023

Time

10:00 - 11:15

Presented by
Prof.
Prof. Marilyne Andersen

ENAC, EPFL

Dr.
Dr. Gracia Brueckmann

Faculty of Political Science and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern

Social justice
Climate change
Diversity & inclusion

The 2023 Agenda for Climate, People & Nature

Date

Oct 2, 2023

Time

10:00 - 11:15

Presented by
Elise Buckle

Co-founder of SHE Changes Climate and CEO of Clim...

Networking
Climate change

CLIMACT Fall-tastic Apero

Date

Sep 25, 2023

Time

15:30 - 17:30

Venue

Le Perchoir, Vortex

Climate change
CLIMACT seminar series
Humanitarian aid

3rd CLIMACT Seminar Series - Episode #16

To end the seminar series "A Climate of Transformation", CLIMACT is welcoming Kathrine Vad, Environment and Climate Change Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Date

Jun 5, 2023

Time

10:00 - 11:15

Presented by
Kathrine Vad

Environment and climate change adviser at the Int...

Research

3rd CLIMACT Seminar Series - Episode #15

A special seminar dedicated to ECRs from UNIL and EPFL, winners of the 2023 CLIMACT Scholars call for proposals, presenting their research.

Date

May 22, 2023

Time

10:00 - 11:15

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