Claudia R. Binder is Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems at École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She holds the Swiss Mobiliar Chair for Urban Ecology and Sustainable Living. She is a leading researcher in the field of sustainability assessment. Her interests lie in inter- and transdisciplinary research to analyze, model and assess scenarios and policies for transitions of urban systems towards sustainability.
Romano Wyss is a research scientist at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He also works as an independent consultant in the field of regional development and sustainability. Wyss's research focuses on sustainable development, resilience theory and energy transitions, linked to social network analysis and transdisciplinary research.
Emanuele Massaro is a scientist at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He received his doctorate in Complex Systems from the University of Florence in 2014 and thereafter he conducted postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests span the areas of computational epidemiology, urban sustainability and big data analytics.