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The EPFL Press and the World Knowledge Dialogue

As transdisciplinary studies attract ever more attention from scholars and teachers all around the world, the EPFL Press is pleased to announce its collaboration with the World Knowledge Dialogue Foundation.  A first volume based on the discussions of the WKD Foundation is under way, with plans to pursue the publication program this fall at its second Symposium.  The first book spans topics from natural complexity to neuroscience, from education theory to climate change, from immunology to archaeology, as a goup of renowned multidisciplinarians engage each other, through a series of original essays, in a climate of constructive criticism and with the amibition to build a new foundation for the transdisciplinary approach.

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Analytical and Physical
Electrochemistry

Author(s):
Hubert H. Girault
Scope(s): Fundamental Sciences 
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ISBN: 2-940222-03-7
2004, 448 pp, 285 figures,
16x24cm, hardcover.
 


The study electrochemistry is pertinent to a wide variety of fields, including bioenergetics, environmental sciences, and engineering sciences. Intended both as a basic course for undergraduate students and as a reference work for graduates and researchers, this book covers two fundamental aspects of electrochemistry: electrochemistry in solution and interfacial electrochemistry.
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Hubert H. Girault

Professor Hubert H. Girault, a graduate of the ENSEE Grenoble (France), obtained his doctorate in Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton (England). He has taught physical and analytical electrochemistry since 1985, first as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and then, from 1992 on, as professor of chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he is presently the Director of the Section of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He is the author of over 200 research papers, review articles and patents, and was co-editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry from 1996 to 2002. His research activities have covered different aspects of electrochemistry such as charge transfer at liquid/liquid interfaces, or the design and fabrication of sensors and microsystems for environmental analysis and clinical diagnostics.