Sébastien Cajot
sebastien.cajot@epfl.ch +41 21 695 80 24 www.urb.io
EPFL Valais Wallis
EPFL IPESE (SCI-STI-FM)
Rue de l'Industrie 17
Case postale 440
CH-1951 Sion
Mission
My motivation is to create a positive impact for people and the environment. I seek new ways where technology and human beings can mutually benefit each other to solve global challenges, such as climate change and urbanization.
Current work
Sébastien is working on the development of Urbio, a decision support software for planning sustainable cities. This work is based on his and Nils Schüler's doctoral theses, completed in 2018.
Biography
Sébastien is a postdoctoral researcher at the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering (IPESE) Group at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He holds a Master in environmental sciences and engineering from EPFL and Kyoto University, and a PhD in energy from EPFL.
During his PhD, he has worked as researcher on urban and energy system planning at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) in Karlsruhe, Germany between 2014 and 2017.
Prior to that, he worked during two and half years as business process analyst at the environmental and energy department of canton de Vaud, Switzerland. There, his focus was also to develop a system of indicators to inform the local government on the efficiency of the State’s energy policy.
Since 2019, Sébastien focuses on supporting interdisciplinary decisions in urban planning processes through human-computer interaction. Currently, he works on the development of the startup Urbio in this field, and acquired related support from the Canton of Geneva, the Hasler Foundation, Innosuisse Bridge Proof of Concept and Tech4Impact.
Professional course
| Researcher | Industrial Process and Energy System Engineering Group | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | 2019-ongoing |
| Doctoral assistant | Industrial Process and Energy System Engineering Group | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | 2017-2018 |
| Research engineer | European institute for energy research (EIFER) | 2014-2017 | |
| Project manager in business process analysis and energy policy indicators | Direction générale de l'environnement, Etat de Vaud | 2011-2014 |
Education
| PhD student | Doctoral program in Energy (EDEY) | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) | 2014-2018 |
| Marie Curie ITN fellow | CI-NERGY | 2014-2017 | |
| Ing. env. dipl. EPF | Environmental science and engineering | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Kyoto University | 2006-2011 |
Infoscience publications
Main publications
Journal Articles
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S. Cajot; N. Schüler; M. Peter; A. Koch; F. Maréchal : Interactive Optimization With Parallel Coordinates: Exploring Multidimensional Spaces for Decision Support; Frontiers in ICT. 2019-01-14. DOI : 10.3389/fict.2018.00032.
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N. Schüler; S. Cajot; M. Peter; J. Page; F. Maréchal : The optimum is not the goal: Capturing the decision space for the planning of new neighborhoods; Frontiers in Built Environment. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/fbuil.2017.00076.
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S. Cajot; M. Peter; J. -M. Bahu; F. Guignet; A. Koch et al. : Obstacles in energy planning at the urban scale; Sustainable Cities And Society. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2017.02.003.
Conference Papers
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N. Schüler; G. Agugiaro; S. Cajot; F. Maréchal : Linking interactive optimization for urban planning with a semantic 3D city model. 2018. ISPRS TC IV Mid-term Symposium “3D Spatial Information Science – The Engine of Change” (Volume IV-4), Delft, The Netherlands, October 1 - 5, 2018. p. 179-186. DOI : 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-179-2018.
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S. Cajot; N. Schüler; M. Peter; A. Koch; F. Maréchal : Interactive optimization for the planning of urban systems. 2017. CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 6-8, 2017. p. 445-450. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.383.
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S. Cajot; N. Schüler; M. Peter; J. Page; A. Koch et al. : Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts. 2016. Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Regional Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, June 13-17, 2016. p. 760. DOI : 10.3218/3774-6_82.
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S. Cajot; F. Maréchal : Energy Planning in the Urban Context: Challenges and Perspectives. 2015. 6th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC), Torino, Italy, June 14-17, 2015. p. 3366-3371. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.752.
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S. Cajot; A. Schleiss; T. Sumi; S. Kantoush : Reservoir Sediment Management Using Replenishment : A Numerical Study Of Nunome Dam. 2012. International Symposium on Dams for a changing world - 80th Annual Meeting and 24th Congress of CIGB-ICOLD, Kyoto, Japan, June 5, 2012. p. 2-131-2-136.
Reviews
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S. Cajot; A. Mirakyan; A. Koch; F. Maréchal : Multicriteria Decisions in Urban Energy System Planning: A Review; Frontiers in Energy Research. 2017. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2017.00010.
Theses
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S. Cajot : Interactive optimization for supporting multicriteria decisions in urban and energy system planning. Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8925.
Book Chapters
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N. Schüler; S. Cajot : A planning support system using interactive optimization; Urban Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities; Academic Press, 2019-01-01. p. 51-78.
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S. Cajot; N. Schüler : Urban energy system planning: Overview and main challenges; Urban Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities; Academic Press, 2019-01-01. p. 19-49.
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N. Schüler; S. Cajot : Application of the planning support system URBio; Urban Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities; Academic Press, 2019-01-01. p. 415-445.
Posters
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N. Schüler; S. Cajot; F. Maréchal; J. Page; M. Peter et al. : Interactive optimization for planning of urban energy systems using parallel coordinates ; Urban Transitions Global Summit, Shanghai, China, September 5-9, 2016.