User:Quaenuncabibis/List of EPFL people

EPFL's active alumni base of more than 37,000 devote themselves to the university through organizations and events.

A number of alumni have made significant contributions in the fields of government, law, science, academia, business, arts, journalism, and athletics, among others.

= Government and NGOs = Daniel Brélaz (mathematician, former member of the National Council of Switzerland and Environmentalist), Luc Recordon (engineer, lawyer, politician, former member of Swiss National Council and Swiss Council of States), Dominique Andrey (advisor for military affairs, Swiss Department of Defence)

Robert Mardini (director general of ICRC)

= Academia and reasearch =

chemist Jacques Dubochet (winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), mathematician Alexandre Chorin (Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), cosmologist Claudia de Rham (Imperial College), Alain Fuchs (President at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) until 2017, currently President at Paris Sciences et Lettres University), André Gorz (philosopher and economist), computer scientist Jean-Daniel Nicoud (inventor of optical computer mouse), engineer Francesco Mondada (inventor of Khepera robots), Claude Nicolier (former ESA astronaut), Raquel Urtasun (head of Uber ATG Self-Driving Unit, professor at University of Toronto), Maurice Cosandey (former president of EPFL); Erna Hamburger (first female professor at EPFL); Claudia Clopath (Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London); Kamila Markram (founder and CEO of Frontiers); Ghislain Bardout (explorer, Under The Pole missions)

Lawyer and computer scientist Hugo Sbai (youngest ever PhD at University of Oxford with 17 years),

= Journalism =

= Literature = In the area of literature, the Swiss writer Metin Arditi won the Prix Jean-Giono, the Prix Paroles et Plumes, and the Prix Millepages for his novel Le Turquetto.

= Architecture, Arts and Literature = Inès Lamunière (designlab-architecture), civil engineer Léonard Gianadda (founder of the museum and collection Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny), Philippe Rahm (architect), Vincent Mangeat (architect, co-founder of ESAR - École spéciale d'architecture de Lausanne), Carole Trousseau (general secretary at Grand Théâtre de Genève, former opera singer)

= Business = The current or recent president, CEO, or chairman of each of the following Fortune 500 companies is a EPFL alumnus:

Othman Benjelloun (billionaire businessman)

Daniel Borel (founder and chairman at Logitech), Franck Riboud (chairman at Danone), Vincent Ducrot (General Director at Swiss Federal Railways), Christophe Beck (CEO at Ecolab), Pierre-Alain Ruffieux (CEO at Lonza), Christoph Aeschlimann (CIO & CTO at Swisscom), Jacques Baur (Director of Research at Rolex), Woosung Han (Executive Vice President at Samsung Austin Semiconductor), Stephane Linder (COO at Breitling), Vanni Henri (Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at Novartis), Irina du Bois (Deputy Director at Nestlé, Board of Director at Givaudan), André Borschberg (former CEO and pilot of Solar Impulse), Patrick Hertzog (co-founder of Nexthink); Igor Perisic (Chief Data Officer at LinkedIn); Mougahed Darwish (board of directors at Swatch Group); Steve Anavi (founder and President, Qonto),  Mark Bürki and Paolo Buzzi  (co-founders of Swissquote), Maximilian Büsser (founder, CEO and chief creative officer of MB&F), Bertrand Cardis (Decision SA, Alinghi, Solar Impulse),  Liu Shaoming (VP & Board Member of Colibri Technologies), Philippe Petitpierre (founder & chairman of the Holdigaz Group), Magdi Batato (executive VP, COO and member of executive board of Nestlé), Florence Schnydrig Moser (head of private banking at Zürcher Kantonalbank); Camille Vial (president of the board, managing partner at Mirabaud Group), Mattia Binotto (chief techical officer at Scuderia Ferrari), Nicolas Cudré-Mauroux (CTO of Solvay), Daniel Gorostidi (chairman of the board of ELCA Group), Stefan Kudelski (founder of Kudelski Group and inventor of the Nagra), André Kudelski (CEO of Kudelski), Guy Berruyer (chief executive of Sage Group), Aart de Geus (chairman, founder and CEO of Synopsys), Silvio Napoli (president of the executive management board of the Schindler Group), Jurgi Camblong (founder and CEO of Sophia Genetics), Nicolas Durand and Iwan Märki (CEO and CTO, co-founders of Abionic), Nicola Tomatis (founder and CEO of BlueBotics), Arnaud Salomon (founder and CEO of  MtPelerin), Alexandre Gonthier (founder of Trustly),

Rodrigo Schmidt (Sr. Director Engineering at Instagram),

Eric Favre (inventor of Nespresso capsule system at Nestlé), George de Mestral (inventor of Velcro)

Recent notable startups founded by EPFL alumni include Siri (Didier Guzzoni, aquired by Apple Inc.), Best Mile (Anne Mellano and Raphael Gindrat), AMAL Therapeutics (Madiha Derouazi), VIMEO (Mark Kornfilt), Sun Bioscience (Sylke Hoehnel), Lunaphore (Ata Tuna Ciftlik, Déborah Heintze, and Diego Dupouy), Playfulvision (Horesh Ben Shitrit), Checkr (Yanisse Daniel),  Taurus Group (Sebastien Dessimoz),  Tej Tadi (founder and CEO of Mindmaze), Flyability (Patrick Thévoz and Adrien Briod), ID Quantique (Grégoire Ribordy, CEO),  Tayo, Pristem, Insolight (Marie Ivorra Grosse, board member)

= Athletics =

Alexandre Imperatori (racing driver)