SNF funded and associated PhD Students

 
 

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt
Chair for Information Architecture, ETH Zurich

 

Dipl.-Ing. Antje Kunze   +41 44 633 68 59 HIT H 32.3, ETH Zurich

PhD topic: A Participatory Framework for Planning Sustainable Future Cities: Development of an Interactive Decision Support Tool for Participatory Urban Planning in Switzerland

Antje is a research scientist and teaching assistant at the Chair for Information Architecture. She started her PhD studies in 2008 at ETH Zurich with the focus on the definition and development of an interactive decision support tool, to aid in the strategic planning of sustainable future cities. Her main interests in research concentrate on decision-making processes, stakeholder participation, visualization, collaborative environments, geometric urban modeling, urban simulation and sustainable urban planning.

Dipl.-Ing. Jan Halatsch   +41 44 633 79 62 HIT H 32.3, ETH Zurich

PhD topic: Interactive Detection of Urban Heat Islands: A rule-based optimization and city modeling method for the early design stage

Jan Halatsch’s PhD thesis concentrates on the simplification of micro-climate models. Interactive micro-climate evaluation techniques could help significantly in the early design stage to prevent from poor urban planning. A huge contribution is expected by coupling different urban physics models into an integrated rule-based 3D city model that is aware of different climatic scales. Therefore, an existing procedural 3D city modeling process will be extended to include computations for urban physics into an interactive city model. The urban physics calculations will be integrated in a 3D modeling environment, providing instant feedback to the users on the developed models.

M-Arch Anastasia Koltsova   +41 44 633 79 62 HIT H 32.3, ETH Zurich

PhD topic: Inverse Urban Design: Parameter detection from design context

Anastasia Koltsova is research assistant and PhD student at the Chair for Information Architecture. Her research focuses on development of parametric design tools and their application in urban planning.

 
 

Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems, ETH Zurich

 

Msc Noemi Neuenschwander   +41 44 633 66 67 HIL H 52.1, ETH Zurich

PhD topic: Generic 3D Modeling and Visualization Tool for Urban Development Evaluation – Integrating ecological and socioeconomic dimensions into procedural urban 3D modeling for participatory evaluation and optimization of urban design

 
 

Prof. Dr. Thomas Rutherford
Centre for Energy Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich

 

Renger van Nieuwkoop, lic. rer. pol   +41 44 632 02 63 ZUE E 4, ETH Zurich

PhD topic: Generic 3D Modeling and Visualization Tool for Urban Development Evaluation – Integrating ecological and socioeconomic dimensions into procedural urban 3D modeling for participatory evaluation and optimization of urban design

 
 

Prof. Dr. Michel Bierlaire
Transport and Mobility Laboratory, EPF Lausanne

 

Msc Ricardo Hurtubia   +41 21 693 93 29 EPFL

Research interests: Transport and Land Use, Urban Economics, Discrete Choice Models, Simulation

Ricardo Hurtubia is currently working as research and teaching assistant at EPFL’s Transport and Mobility Laboratory.

 
 

Prof. Dr. Roland Scholz
Chair of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich

 

Timo von Wirth   +41 44 632 75 84 CHN J 70.1, ETH Zurich