Michaël Thémans

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Director of Development Office

michael.themans@epfl.ch +41 21 693 99 58

Citizenship: Swiss & Belgian

Birth date: 17.08.1980

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Fields of expertise

Business development Technology Transfer Industrial relationships Multidisciplinary innovation Project Management Nonlinear optimization Operations Research Mathematical Modeling Discrete Choice Modeling Transportation demand analysis Design of Experiments Statistics

Mission

As the Director of the Development Office, directly reporting to EPFL's President, my main missions include:
- Alumni Relations
- Donors Relations
- Strategic partnerships & Initiatives
- Representation of the President and of the Institution in various Boards

Biography

See LinkedIn profile. ;-)

Professional course

Director

Presidency - Development Office

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2021-

President

President of the Board

Société Simple pour le Quartier de l'Innovation

2021-

Board Member

Member of Foundation Board

EPFL Plus Foundation

2021-

Group Research & Innovation Director

Member of Senior Management

Richemont International SA

2019-2021

Deputy Vice-President and Head of Corporate Relations & Innovation Projects.

Vice-Presidency for Innovation

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2017-2019

Vice-President

EPFL Innovation Park Foundation

2017-2019

Deputy Vice-President

Vice-Presidency for Innovation and Technology Transfer

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2015-2016

Deputy Director

Transportation Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2010-2014

Data scientist and R&D specialist

Nestlé Research Center, Nestlé S.A.

2007-2009

Lecturer

Transport and Mobility Laboratory

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2007-2018

Research and Teaching Assistant

Transport and Mobility Laboratory

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2002-2007

Project manager

Project for the Swiss Federal Office of Roads (collaboration with ETH Zürich)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2002-2004

Education

Ph.D.

Mathematics - Operations Research, Data Sciences, Modeling

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2003-2007

M.Sc.

Applied Mathematics (Numerical Optimization and Statistics)

University of Namur, Belgium

1998-2002

Publications

Infoscience publications

Financing rail infrastructure by multi-annual performance contracts

D. A. Greinus / M. Finger (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6517.

Michaël Thémans

Director of Development Office

Fields of expertise

Mission

Biography

Professional course

Education

Publications

Infoscience publications

Financing rail infrastructure by multi-annual performance contracts

City Automated Transport System (CATS): The Legacy of an Innovative European Project

Les challenges de la mobilité de demain : débat

Modeling pedestrian flows in train stations: The example of Lausanne railway station

Modeling pedestrian flows in train stations: The example of Lausanne railway station

Solving mobility challenges through demand-oriented and user-centric innovation

Clip-air: a concept for future air transport

User-centric research for predicting future transportation demand

Transportation Center: Research related to traffic management and public transport operations

Transportation Research at EPFL: From Supply Chain to Intelligent Vehicles

Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions

EPFL's Transportation Research: Strategy & Selected Projects

Pedestrian strategies within railway stations: Analysis and modeling of pedestrian flows (PedFlux Mid-Term Report)

Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting: a framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions

A framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions

Electric mobility: The social acceptance of electric vehicles on Swiss market

From Information & Communication Technologies to Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems

EPFL: Aperçu des activités en transport routier durable

Integrated choice and latent variable models: applications to vehicle and mode choice modeling

Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles

Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting: a framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions

Planning of feeding station installment for electric urban public mass-transportation system

Les usages de la mobilité: pour une ingénierie des modes de vie

Final report on the modeling part of the "Flux pietons Gare de Lausanne" project within the framework of "Leman 2030"

Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions

Analyse, modélisation et prédiction de la demande de véhicules électriques sur le marché automobile suisse

Electric Mobility: Some Challenges and Its Acceptation in Switzerland

CLIP-AIR: A new concept for multimodal transport based on a modular aircraft

Some challenges in electric mobility

Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting

From Technology... to Sociology in Transportation

Car demand in the future: enriching forecasting models with market dynamics, behavioural variables and policy evolution

The innovation Cell of PSA - Peugeot-Citroën on EPFL's campus

Transport durable: De la sociologie aux technologies en passant par la logistique

Analyse de la demande et des comportements de mobilité

Transportation Center @ EPFL: Overview of research activities and projects

Quelle mobilité pour demain? Quelques solutions innovantes et durables

Integrating Latent Concepts in Demand Models

Modèles de demande intégrant attitudes et perceptions

Etude sur la propulsion du Clip-Air

Interactions complexes entre infrastructures et piétons: tracking et modélisation comportementale des flux piétonniers dans les secteurs des gares

Le transport de marchandises en ville: Vers une optimisation opérationnelle et une meilleure coordination?

TraCE: From society needs to cutting-edge research

Research on vehicles for ground transportation at EPFL

Modeling demand for electric vehicles: the effect of car users' attitudes and perceptions

Integrating latent concepts in a demand model for electric vehicles

Modeling demand for electric vehicles: the effect of car users' attitudes and perceptions

Emergence of electric mobility: a nested approach to vehicle choice modeling

Emergence of electric mobility: a nested approach to vehicle choice modeling

Overview of transportation research at EPFL

EPFL's Transportation Center: Smart mobility

EPFL's Transportation Center: Sustainable Mobility

EPFL's Transportation Center: Some on-going projects

TraCE: Le centre de transport à l'EPFL

EPFL's Transportation Center: Mobility of the future

TraCE: Le centre de transport à l'EPFL

EPFL's Transportation Center: Research related to rail industry

Simulation and optimization of urban transport systems

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization

Adjusted Mixture Designs illustrated with examples from food industry

Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization

Numerical Methods and Models Relevant to Transportation Applications

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice model estimation

Development and estimation of advanced Discrete Choice Models

Development and estimation of advanced Discrete Choice Models

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization

Optimisation non-linéaire globale avec applications aux modèles de choix discret

A heuristic for global nonlinear optimization

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation