Power Vision Engineering Sàrl, SWITZERLAND

Dr. Christophe NICOLET graduated from the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, in Switzerland, and received his Master degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2001. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the same institution in the Laboratory for Hydraulic Machines. Since, he is managing director and principal consultant of Power Vision Engineering Sàrl in St-Sulpice, Switzerland, a company active in the field of optimization of hydropower transients and operation. He is also external lecturer at EPFL in the field of “Transient Flow”. He is working group member of IEC-TC4 on hydraulic turbines of WG33 on pressure fluctuations transposition and co-convenor of WG36 on hydraulic transients.