Lucia Pavan

lucia.pavan@epfl.ch +41 21 693 82 31
Citizenship: italian
EPFL AVP-R TTO
QIJ 1 117.02 (EPFL Innovation Park J)
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 82 31
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QIJ 1 117.14
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Fields of expertise
Intellectual Property
Biography
Lucia is membre of the Swiss Technology Transfer Association (SwiTT) and Swiss Legal Tech Assciation (SLTA).She joined the EPFL Technology Transfer Office in March 2020 as contract manager. In this role, she assists EPFL professors and researchers by drafting and negotiating reserch contracts with industries, in particular for Innosuisse projects or for research projects with companies having an established framework agreement with EPFL. Previously to this role she entered Unitec, the technology transfer office of the Geneva University where she stayed for one year in 2019.
Lucia decided to move to the technology transfer sector to strenghten the link between research and industry after having gathered a direct experience in the research domain, with an active of about 50 scientific publications and by leading and participating to several international collaborations.
Lucia studied astrophysics in Padova - Italy, where she also obtained her PhD in physics in 2009. She worked as postodoc and then as associated researcher for 8 years in the astronomy department of the Geneva University. While there, Lucia was also the scientific liaison between european scientific and technical teams collectively responsibles for the scientific data analysis software of 3 instruments onboard the ESA Integral satellite.
Mission
Strenghten the link between research and industry to help bringing new promising technologies to the market.Professional course
Technology transfer officer
Unitec - bureau de transfert de technologies.
Université de Genève
2019-2020
Researcher
ISDC - Integral science data center. from postdoc to more advanced researcher positions.
Université de Genève
2009-2017
Associate researcher
data analysis in astrohpysics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2009
Education
Rédaction des contrats
Université de Genève
2019
Project manager certified
IPMA - International Project Management Association
2020
PhD in physics
Università di Padova - Italy
2006-2009