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Urban and Regional Planning Community
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Lecturer |
ENAC
ENAC-SAR
SAR-ENS
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Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet
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Urban and Regional Planning Community
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birth date: 20.03.1969
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office(s):
BP3124
BP2131
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 37961,38069
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BIOGRAPHY
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2011-current
Scientific collaborator at the CEAT, 30%
1996-1999; 2003-current (60%)
Founder and associate at MicroGIS Ltd (http://www.microgis.ch), a geoscience company, as Head of development and services. Main work in devising new and innovative methods to tackle spatial problems in marketing, logistics, land use, urban planning; development of an array of geodata based on the swiss zipcodes, a first back in 1996.
2007-current
Founder and board member of the MicroGIS Foundation for Spatial Analysis (http://www.mfsa.ch), established to further research in applied spatial analysis.
2006-2011
PhD student with Pr. Schuler, about of the spatial deconcentration of tertiary sector jobs in Switzerland since WWII, with a special insight on the statistical link between road accessibility and job density.
PhD obtained in may 2011; Thesis: "Changes in employment localization and accessibility: the case of Switzerland, 1939-2008"
2003-2006 (50%)
Scientific collaborator at Chôros Lab, under supervision of Pr. M. Schuler, to conceive and realize an "Atlas des Mutations Spatiales de la Suisse". Data mining, recoding and exploitation towards thematic mapping of Swiss business and population census results, 1970-2001.
2000-2003
Senior Data Analyst, then Lead Data Analyst, IHS Energy, Houston (USA). Spatial Database creation and maintenance about oil & gas contracts (concessions) for two North-American frontier areas (Alaska / Canadian Territories; Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico under US jurisdiction)
1993-1998
Assistant with Pr. J.-B. Racine at the Institue of Geography of the University of Lausanne. Urban and economic geography, statistical databases.
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Education
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PhD in Science, Urban and economic Geography, Prof. Dr. Martin Schuler
martin.schuler@epfl.ch, EPFL, 2006-2011
Master in Arts, Geography (major), history, geology (minors), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1989-1995
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Schweiz, Schneider-Sliwa (Ed.), Dessemontet, Schuler: die heutigen politischen Landschaften der Schweiz, pp. 37-41, 2011
Changes in employment localization and accessibility: the case of Switzerland, 1939-2008, Dessemontet, PhD Thesis nr. 5011, EPFL, 2011
Switzerland as a single metropolitan area? A study of its commuting network, Dessemontet, Jemelin, Kaufmann, Urban Studies 47/13, pp. 2785-802, 11/2010
Géographie de la Suisse, Chételat, Dessemontet, Mix & Remix, lep, Le Mont, 2010
Différentiations territoriales, contextuelles et environnementales dans les agglomérations suisses
, Schuler, Dessemontet, in: Pattaroni, Kaufmann, Rabinovich: Habitat en devenir, PPUR, 2009
L'espace transfrontalier du genevois dans un contexte européen, Schuler, Jarne, Dessemontet, Obs. Stat. Transfr. Espace FR-VD-GE, MicroGIS SA,
ISBN: 978-2-11-097057-2, 2008
Interaction maximization and the observed distribution of urban populations: An agent-based model of humanity’s metric condition, Ourednik, Dessemontet, Conference Paper, European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, 2007
Atlas des mutations spatiales de la Suisse, Schuler, Dessemontet, Jemelin, Jarne, Pasche, Haug;, NZZ-Libro, Zürich, 2006
Les niveaux géographiques de la Suisse, Schuler, Dessemontet, Joye, OFS, Neuchâtel, 2005
Révolution orange: la fracture ukrainienne, Dessemontet, Mensuelles janvier 2005, EspacesTemps.net
Mountain Atlas of Kyrgyzstan, Schuler, Dessemontet, Torgashova, Abubakirova, Minbaev, NSC Bishkek, 2004
Des edge-cities en Suisse?, Dessemontet, Geographica Helvetica, I/1999, pp. 29-36
Villes et agglomérations suisses, Dessemontet, Racine, Geographica Helvetica, IV/1996, pp. 143-68
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- Urban and suburban economic geography and spatial economy
- Spatial statistical methods as applied in human geography, including new research paths such as spatial autocorrelation effect mitigation, distance matrices
- Encyclopedic knowledge of census records and techniques, in Switzerland and Europe
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Architecture
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