Yasmine Calisesi

Biography

Yasmine is the Executive Director of the EPFL Energy Center since June 2019. Her role is to catalyze energy research led by EPFL laboratories, notably in collaboration with industrial and institutional partners, and enhance EPFL’s impact and image as a world leading research and education institution, EPFL ranking number one in continental Europe in Energy Science and Engineering (2024 Global Ranking on Academic Subjects).
From 2007 to 2019, she developed and managed the Pilot and Demonstration Program of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE). Prior to that, Yasmine established Earth Observation from Space as a discipline of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern. As a post-doctoral fellow of the University of Bern and in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, she participated a.o. in the validation of ESA’s ENVISAT satellite.
Yasmine received her PhD from the University of Bern and holds an MSc in Physics from the University of Geneva. In 2006, she was awarded the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Award by the Swiss Commission for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT.
She currently serves in the Governing Board of Minergie, in the Governing Board of the Swiss Power-to-X Innovation Network SPIN, in the Advisory Board of Women in Power WiP, in the Board of Directors of Groupe E, as well as in several assessment and award committees.
Yasmine is a native French speaker and is fluent in English, German and Italian.