Inspired by the way viruses attach to cells, EPFL scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers. These synthetic molecules bind to specific targets like viral spike proteins, making them useful for biomedical diagnostics and treatments.

EPFL School of Engineering Professor Emeritus Luc Thévenaz was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 29th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS29) last week in Portugal. PhD student Yuting Yang also received an award for Best Student Paper.

Renowned nanoelectronics expert Adrian Ionescu will lead EPFL’s School of Engineering starting November 1, 2025.

On Monday, three teams of students from the first edition of MSE-433: Towards Sustainable Materials, received prizes for semester projects that proposed creative alternatives to existing products.

From April 23rd-26th, EPFL hosted the largest annual soft robotics conference, IEEE-RAS RoboSoft. This year’s international event, whose theme was ‘Interdisciplinarity and Widening Horizons’, featured a soft robotics competition and an art expo. 

Some 80% of weather radiosondes – remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts – end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by a microengineering master’s student is set to change that with a new, ultra-lightweight “glidersonde” that can automatically return to where it was launched.