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| Histoire: | Date of birth February 19, 1935, in Forel-sur-Lucens, Vaud, Switzerland
Status Married, four children, seventeen grand-children
Address EPFL, P.O. Box 124
CH - 1015 LAUSANNE
phone : ++ 41 21 693 77 72
mobile : ++ 41 78 777 21 19
e-mail : jean-claude.badoux@epfl.ch
Education
Secondary: Lausanne, Switzerland
University: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Zurich, 1954-1958
MS ETHZ-EPFZ, 1958
Institute of Technology
Hanover, Germany, 1959-1960
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pa-USA 1962-1965
Ph.D. 1965
Major in all three universities : Civil Engineering
Languages French - German - English - Italian
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Professional Activities
2000-2003 Founding-President of the Swiss Network for Innovation
1992-2000 President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
1969-1992 Director and Head of the Institute of Steel Structures (ICOM) since its founding in 1969
1971-1972 Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, EPFL
From 1967 Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
1965-1967 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis, USA
1964-1965 Research Instructor at Lehigh University, Bethlehem USA
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
From 1967 Technical Advisor and Expert for over one hundred construction projects in Switzerland and worldwide. Expert for several structural failures and construction accidents.
1962-1967 USA. Varied design and construction projects for private firms and the American Government.
1960-1962 Stahlton Prebeton SA at Zurich and Berne; chief engineer for prestressed, precast concrete construction. Installation of a new precasting plant at Avenches (Switzerland).
1958-1960 Structural design consultancy work with Professor Zerna at Hanover, Germany.
ACTIVITIES IN ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES
WFEO / FEANI
World Federation of Engineering Organizations and European Federation of National Engineering Associations
Vice-President of the Executive Board of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO); more than seventeen million engineers, 2005-2011
President of the Swiss National Committee for FEANI and WFEO, 2001-2005
Member of the executive board of WFEO, 2001-2011
Member of the Scientific Committee of the World Engineers Convention (WEC) 2004 in Shanghaï
Founding Member of the Organization Committee for the WEC (World Engineering Convention) 2011 in Geneva
SATW Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
Vice-President from 1990 to 1993
President from 1993 to 1999
Honorary member since 1999
President of the Election Committee 1999-2005
SIA Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects
Chairman of the Board of Governors (1987-1991)
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors (1983-1987)
President of the Bridges and Structures Group of the SIA (1975-1979)
President of the Council of Honour, 1999-2014
Honorary member, 1991
FNRS Swiss National Science Foundation
Member of the General Council, 1978-1992, and again 2001-2004
Member of the Election Committee, 1980-1992
Member of the Administrative Committee, 1982-1992
IABSE International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
Co-Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the IABSE Congress in New-Delhi (1992)
President of the Scientific Committee of the IABSE Congress in Lucerne (2000)
Honorary Member 2000
Member of the Scientific Committee of the IABSE Congress in New Dehli (2005)
CSCM Swiss Institute of Steel Construction
Member of the Technical Committee (1970-1978)
ECCS European Convention for Constructional Steelwork
Member of the Committee TC 8 "Stability" Working Group II of the ECCS, 1981-1989
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
Fellow of the ASCE, 1988
Miscellaneous
Board member of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, (IPI) Berne, 2002 to 2007
Honorary General Consul in Switzerland for the Republic of Korea, 2000-2005
Chairman UNECE (United Nation Economic Commission for Europe) Team of Specialists on Intellectual Property, 2009-2013
Board member of the Institute of Management and Development (IMD), Lausanne, 1993-2004
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2003
Member of the International Academy of Engineering of Russia (1997)
Honorary member of the Swiss Chamber of Judicial Experts, 1997
Technical Expert for the Swiss National Government, the Cantons, the Courts, and for private bodies in Switzerland and abroad
International Arbitrator in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
Councillor for Scientific Committees in Germany and USA
Honorary member of the Alumni Association of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ), 1998
Kathmandu University, Nepal, important support for the creation of a centre of excellence in production and distribution of electricity (CEPTE), Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, 2003 to date
Founding member of "Le Réseau", Geneva, with the mission to "change the federal laws that shuttle Swiss high-tech entrepreneurship; simplify the creation of high-tech enterprises and encourage a vibrant venture capital industry in Switzerland"
Board member for the Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM), Neuchâtel, Switzerland 1993-2004
Honorary member of Pacte (network of professional women), 2006
Honorary member of A3, Alumni Association of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), 2009
Board Memberships
1992-1994 Vice-President of the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH-Rat/CEPF)
1983-2000 Coop Western Switzerland (two billion US$ turnover in retail), President of the Board
2000-2005 Coop Switzerland (fifteen billion US$ turnover in retail), member of the committee of the Executive Board
2000-2011 Zwahlen and Mayr Steel Construction Aigle, Switzerland, member of the Board
2011-2015 Zwahlen and Mayr Steel Construction Aigle, Switzerland, Chairman of the Board
2000-2013 Stucky Engineering- Energy + Water, Switzerland, member of the Board
1991-2012 SIA-House Investment Company in Real Estate, member of the Board
2001-2009 KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), member of the Board
1973-2014 Editorial Board Member of "Swiss Engineers and Architects", publications
Actual Responsibilities
President of the Board of the Bois Chamblard Foundation Buchillon, Switzerland, 1999 to date
EPFL delegate to the relations with Nepal universities, 2001 to date
Ambassador at large of the ICES Foundation (International Centre for Earth Simulation) in Geneva, 2014 to date
Distinctions
Tedesko Gold Medal from the International Association for Metal and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
Honorary PhD (honoris causa) Hoseo University Korea 2001
Jean-Claude Badoux, June 2017 |
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