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Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet

pierre.dessemontet@epfl.ch

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EPFL ENAC IA LASUR
BP 2242 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

Office: BP 2242
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Website: https://lasur.epfl.ch/

Expertise

- 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

Expertise

- 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

Current work

2012-current (50%) CEAT: Scientific Coordinator In charge of the newly formed spatial analysis sub-unit of the CEAT, responsible for all studies pertaining to census results and spatial and territorial evolutions as seen through spatial statistical methods and inquiries. Lecturer in the SAR-Ens at the EPFL (Qualitative and Quantitative Methods; Economic Geography) and for the Institute of Geography of the University of Lausanne (Data Analysis in Geography) 1996-1999; 2003-current (50%) 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.
2011-2012 Scientific collaborator at the CEAT, 30% 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.

Education

PhD in Science

| Urban and economic Geography

2006 – 2011 EPFL
Directed by Prof. Dr. Martin Schuler martin.schuler@epfl.ch

Master in Arts

| Geography (major), history, geology (minors)

1989 – 1995 University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Selected publications

Le vote suisse pour la limitation des résidences secondaires

Schuler, Dessemontet
Published in Revue de géographie alpine/Journal of Alpine Research [Online] 2013, Forum, Issues at stake in the Swiss vote of 11 March 2012 regarding second homes in

Les empreintes spatiales de la dynamique démographique de la Suisse

Dessemontet, Schuler
Published in in Bühlmann, Schmid Botkine et al. (eds.)(2012): Rapport Social 2012: Générations en jeu, Seismo, Zürich, pp. 256-284 in

Schweiz

Schneider-Sliwa (Ed.)
Published in Dessemontet, Schuler: die heutigen politischen Landschaften der Schweiz, pp. 37-41, 2011 in

Changes in employment localization and accessibility: the case of Switzerland, 1939-2008

Dessemontet
Published in PhD Thesis nr. 5011, EPFL, 2011 in

Switzerland as a single metropolitan area? A study of its commuting network

Dessemontet, Jemelin, Kaufmann
Published in Urban Studies 47/13, pp. 2785-802, 11/2010 in

Géographie de la Suisse

Chételat, Dessemontet, Mix & Remix
Published in lep, Le Mont, 2010 in

Différentiations territoriales, contextuelles et environnementales dans les agglomérations suisses

Schuler, Dessemontet
Published in in: Pattaroni, Kaufmann, Rabinovich: Habitat en devenir, PPUR, 2009 in

L'espace transfrontalier du genevois dans un contexte européen

Schuler, Jarne, Dessemontet
Published in Obs. Stat. Transfr. Espace FR-VD-GE, MicroGIS SA, ISBN: 978-2-11-097057-2, 2008 in

Interaction maximization and the observed distribution of urban populations: An agent-based model of humanity’s metric condition

Ourednik, Dessemontet
Published in Conference Paper, European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, 2007 in

Atlas des mutations spatiales de la Suisse

Schuler, Dessemontet, Jemelin, Jarne, Pasche, Haug;
Published in NZZ-Libro, Zürich, 2006 in

Les niveaux géographiques de la Suisse

Schuler, Dessemontet, Joye
Published in OFS, Neuchâtel, 2005 in

Révolution orange: la fracture ukrainienne

Dessemontet
Published in Mensuelles janvier 2005, EspacesTemps.net in

Mountain Atlas of Kyrgyzstan

Schuler, Dessemontet, Torgashova, Abubakirova, Minbaev
Published in NSC Bishkek, 2004 in

Des edge-cities en Suisse?

Dessemontet
Published in Geographica Helvetica, I/1999, pp. 29-36 in

Villes et agglomérations suisses

Dessemontet, Racine
Published in Geographica Helvetica, IV/1996, pp. 143-68 in

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Spatial and Regional Economy

AR-492

An introductory course designed to provide a historical perspective on the spatial distribution of people and activities.