URBAN ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING Tuesday 21 April 201508:45 CLAUDIA BINDER Full professor of Human Environment Relations, University of Munich, Germany

Transitions of Social-Ecological Systems towards Sustainability : A Contribution to Urban Ecology

09:30 CHRISTINE THURING Early career researcher, University of Sheffield, UK

Soils and Plants : Cities and People - Urban Ecological Design for a Sustainable Future

10:30 RUCHI CHOUDHARY Associate professor, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK

Energy Efficient Built-Environments : from Unit to City-scale

11:15 SYLVIE LORENTE Full professor, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), France

«The City : Live Organism with Design and Sustainability from Principle»

Wednesday 22 April 201508:45 EVA KNOP Postdoctoral fellow, Group leader and lecturer, University of Bern, Institute of Ecology and Evolution University of Zürich, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies Switzerland

Understanding the Urban Ecosystem : Drivers of Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning in Cities

09:30 NAHID MOHAJERI Postdoctoral fellow, Solar Energy and Building Physics Lab, EPFL, Switzerland

Building Sustainable Cities : From Ecology “in” Cities to Ecology “of” Cities

Public Lectures - Room BM5202

Faculté de l’Environnement Naturel,Architectural et Construit DECANAT