Michaël Thémans

michael.themans@epfl.ch

vCard

Nationality: Swiss & Belgian

EPFL VPS DEV
CE 3 305 (Centre Est)
Station 1
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
EPFL › VPS › VPS-DEV › DEV

EPFL VPS-DEV PHI
QIF 1 111.8 (EPFL Innovation Park F)
CH-1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
EPFL › VPS › VPS-DEV › PHI

SQIE p/o Fondation EPFL Innovation Park
Bâtiment C
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
EPFL › VPI › QIE › QIE-GE

EPFL VPS DEV
CE 3 305 (Centre Est)
Station 1
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
EPFL › VPS › VPS-DEV › EPFL-ALUMNI

Website: https://epflalumni.ch

EPFL VPS DEV
CE 3 305 (Centre Est)
Station 1
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
EPFL › VPA › VPA-FAC › GEP

Website: https://go.epfl.ch/gep

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 Publications Research

See LinkedIn profile. ;-)

Education

Ph.D.

| Mathematics - Operations Research, Data Sciences, Modeling

2003 – 2007 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

M.Sc.

| Applied Mathematics (Numerical Optimization and Statistics)

1998 – 2002 University of Namur, Belgium

Professionals experiences

Director

2021–2021

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

President of the Board

2021–2021

Société Simple pour le Quartier de l'Innovation

President of the Board

2025–2025

Société Simple pour le Quartier Nord de l'EPFL

Board Member

2021–2021

EPFL Plus Foundation

Group Research & Innovation Director

2019–2021

Richemont International SA

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

2017–2019

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Deputy Vice-President

2015–2016

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Data scientist and R&D specialist

2007–2009

Nestlé Research Center, Nestlé S.A.

Lecturer

2007–2018

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Research and Teaching Assistant

2002–2007

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Project manager

2002–2004

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

Research

List of publications

Details on publications and talks are available on the following links: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/personnal.php?Person=THEMANS http://transp-or.epfl.ch/pagesPerso/michaelFiles/publications.php http://transp-or.epfl.ch/pagesPerso/michaelFiles/talks.php