Doctoral thesis
Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: From Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation
PhD in Architecture and Sciences of the City, EPFL, 2024
Supervisor: Philippe Thalmann · Nominated for EPFL Thesis Distinction
Teaching and mentoring
Teaching experience
Economic Growth and Sustainability I (HUM-471)
Teaching Assistant · EPFL Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Instructor: Philippe Thalmann
Interdisciplinary course examining economic growth, resource use, sustainable development, and sustainability policy.
Economic Growth and Sustainability II (HUM-470)
Teaching Assistant · EPFL Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Instructor: Philippe Thalmann
Project-based seminar applying decomposition analysis to environmental impacts and developing evidence-based policy recommendations.
Student supervision
Esteban Requena (2024)
Identifying Geographical Clusters of High or Low Sustainability Ratings and Their Implications
Master’s thesis
Yannick Neypatraiky, MSc Civil Engineering, EPFL (2023)
Data-Driven Assessment of the Swiss Building Stock: Characterising Building Typologies for Energy Retrofit Prioritisation
Master’s thesis
Paul Habert, Yannick Neypatraiky, and Thomas Rimbot (2022)
Best Place for You to Live
Master’s computer science project
Selected presentations
Openview: A Tool for Mesh-Based Urban Visibility Modeling and Analysis
2026 AAG Annual Meeting
· San Francisco, California · March 17–21, 2026
Spatial Modeling in Building Design Evaluation
WSL Landscape Centre Seminar Series · July 2, 2024
Spatial Statistics 2023: Climate and the Environment
Conference presentation · University of Colorado Boulder · July 18–21, 2023
Visual Capital: Large-Scale Assessment of Building-Level Visual Landscape Quality
EPFL EDAR Doc.Days · April 17, 2023
Program
· Video
Forming Groups of Students Best Suited to Work Together on a Sustainability Issue
With Philippe Thalmann · EPFL Teaching Sustainability Think Tank: Supporting EPFL Students to Develop Sustainability Mindsets · Online · November 23, 2020
Grants and innovation
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship — EU Horizon 2020
Fellowship supporting doctoral research at EPFL through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 754354.
AVIA — ENAC Innovation Seed Grant
· 2023
Principal investigator for the development of an integrated, data-driven impact-assessment tool for early-stage architectural design optimization.
Circular Economy Transition Incubator — REON
REON was selected for the nationwide incubator supporting circular-economy ventures in developing and validating prototypes and business models.
EPFL Blaze Trailblazer — REON
· 2022
Co-founder of REON, an automated reuse-assessment service for building components and construction materials, selected for EPFL Blaze’s Spring 2022 accelerator cohort.