• School of Engineering

    “My job is to give students confidence in their abilities”

    Giulia Tagliabue, a tenure-track assistant professor in mechanical engineering, has won the EPFL Award for Best Teaching. A specialist in nanotechnology for energy production, she goes the extra mile to make sure students get the most out of her classes.

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  • School of Engineering

    Climate, robotics and exoskeletons for the 4 CROSS 2025 projects

    The CROSS (Collaborative Research on Science and Society) program unveils the four winning projects of its 2025 call for projects, which include two School of Engineering researchers. These projects combine the natural sciences and engin…

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  • School of Engineering

    Josie Hughes wins MassRobotics Rising Star Award

    Josie Hughes, head of the Computational Robot Design and Fabrication Lab (CREATE Lab) in the School of Engineering, has received the 2024 Rising Star Award from the independent robotics innovation hub MassRobotics. 

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  • School of Engineering

    “I was looking to connect neuroscience with engineering.”

    Mélina Lasfargues has the honor of being the first student to finish the Neuro X Masters. She completed her master’s project on thermal illusions earlier this year. 

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  • School of Engineering

    Engineering a more sustainable skyscraper

    Construction is underway on the 85-meter Tilia Tower near Lausanne: the first large-scale building in Switzerland to be built with a low-carbon cement developed in EPFL’s Lab of Construction Materials.

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  • School of Engineering

    “There is a bit of materials science in everything”

    EPFL PhD student Stella Laperrousaz’s crowd-pleasing comparison of her research on electronic fibers to one of Switzerland’s most famous exports won her the audience prize at the My Thesis in 180 Seconds Competition Switzerland 2024.

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116 Professors
3392 Bachelor and Master Students
771 PhD Students
13 Centers

Some highlights

RRL Demo Day: Discover how technologies can transform our daily lives

Since 2016, the RRL Demo Day has been an annual must-see event where students showcase their innovative soft robotic technologies. This event offers a unique opportunity to explore futuristic applications of these technologies in everyday life

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Engineering discovery and fun at the EPFL Open Days

Members of the public enjoyed more than 20 engaging and educational activities on a wide variety of engineering topics, animated by researchers from the School of Engineering, at the 2023 edition of the EPFL Open Days on April 29 and 30.

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Appointment of EPFL professors

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment and promotion of professors at EPFL, including the School of Engineering (STI).

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Upcoming Events

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EPFL LATSIS SYMPOSIUM 2024 on Smart Microscopy 21.10.2024 – 09:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Speakers list  Place: RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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ArchiTango danse sur l’Esplanade 15.10.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: ArchiTango Place: Esplanade EPFL Category Cultural events Read more
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MechE Colloquium: High-frequency viscoelastic bandgaps and thermal transport in organic -inorganic nanolaminates: Phonons meet mechanics 15.10.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Pawel Keblinski, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Douceur de la ville, strolling with two dancers 16.10.2024 – 12:00 > 12:40 Speaker: Luana Volet et Lia Schädler, danseuses Place: Départ de l’Esplanade Category Cultural events Read more
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Assyr Abdulle Lecture: Prof. Stanislav Smirnov – Tiles and Puzzles 16.10.2024 – 16:00 > 17:30 Speaker: Prof. Stanislav Smirnov Place: ELA 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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G-Research Quant Finance Challenge 16.10.2024 – 18:00 > 22:00 Speaker: G-Research Place: GC B3 31 Category Miscellaneous Read more
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SNSF & Innosuisse funding schemes ¦ information event 1/3 16.10.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Hybrid Mind Conference, Geneva, 16-18 October 2024 16.10.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Katherine Bassil, Tristan Baujault Borresen, Olaf Blanke, Diego Borbón, Christoph Bublitz, Guido Cassinadri, Claude Castelluccia, Jennifer Chandler, Hervé Chneiweiss, Annalisa Colucci, Milena Costas Trascasas, Talya Deibel, Marta Diogo, Solange Ghernaouti, Frederic Gilbert, Claudia González–Márquez, Louise Hatherall, Felicitas Holzer, Marcello Ienca, Shu Ishida, Timo Istace, Masanori Kataoka, Masatoshi Kokubo, Keigo Kommamura, Stéphanie Lacour, Sjors Ligthart, Ludmila Litvin, Chloe Loewith, Laurence Lwoff, Geneviève Major, Martina Malcheva, Anita Mollo, Ekaterina Muhl, Roberto Portillo Lara, Alexander Sobieska, , Surjo Soekadar, Marta Sosa Navarro, Giulia Maria Servida, Georg Starke, Laure Tabouy, Sebastian Tobler, Abel Wajnerman Paz, Matthew C. Wilson, David Winickoff, Maricela Munoz and Gerard Escher Place: Campus Biotech in Geneva Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Opening of two exhibitions: Aetherocohedron and el.ba 17.10.2024 – 18:00 > 20:00 Speaker: Josua Putzke and Alison Martin Place: EPFL Pavilions A Category Exhibitions Read more
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System-level integration towards hybrid flexible implantable neuroelectronic interfaces 18.10.2024 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Yashwanth Sai Reddy VYZA Place: ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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AI Center Pizza Night – Movie Screening – The Thinking Game 18.10.2024 – 18:00 > 21:00 Speaker: Place: AI Center Lounge – ELE 117 Category Miscellaneous Read more
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SNSF – COST projects in Switzerland 2024 23.10.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Photonics Day 2024 24.10.2024 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Place: Forum Rolex Learning Center Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SNSF & Innosuisse funding schemes ¦ information event 2/3 24.10.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Inverse Graph Learning from Social Interactions 25.10.2024 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Valentina SHUMOVSKAIA Place: ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Chemical and physical processes in the confined environment of an aerosol particle 28.10.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Ruth Signorell, ETHZ Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Physics with artificial atoms 28.10.2024 – 16:15 > 17:15 Speaker: Prof. Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Director of the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. Per is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), and of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is also a Distinguished Professor appointed by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a Wallenberg Scholar. Place: CE 1 2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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CECAM workshop: ” Challenges and perspective in computational modelling for fusion reactors” 28.10.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Teaching toolkit for PROJECTS 29.10.2024 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Iris Capdevila, Yousef Jalali  Place: CM 1 113 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Showcase 2030: Embracing sufficiency in innovation 29.10.2024 – 09:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Around 30 speakers, among which: Yamina Saheb (Sciences Po Paris),  André Hoffmann (InTent), Julia Binder (IMD),  Maxime Blondeau (Sciences Po Paris & School of Mines), Guido Palazzo (HEC – University of Lausanne), Place: STCC 0 7127.1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Towards models of fluid transport in active vascular networks 29.10.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Dr. Martin Brandenbourger, CNRS, IRPHÉ lab, Aix-Marseille Université Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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lunch&LEARN: An exploratory analysis of student behavior, performance and evaluation in hybrid and blended first year bachelor calculus course 29.10.2024 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Annechien Sarah Helsdingen Manuela Pineros-Rodriguez Place: ME A3 31 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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U.S. Federal Funding | Information Session 29.10.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Effective Lecturing 31.10.2024 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Valentina Rossi, Nihat Kotluk Place: AAC 1 14 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Data Organization & Storage Solutions 31.10.2024 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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Tech4Eva Roadshow Supporting Women’s Health in the Workplace 31.10.2024 – 16:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Development of Adhesive Hydrogels for Tracheomalacia Treatment 31.10.2024 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Ece USLU Place: CM 1 4 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Computational Materials Science: INSPIRE Potentials – MARVEL Master’s Fellowships 12.9.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Document selection : 56 books to succeed in your studies 12.9.2024 – 07:00 > 23:59 Speaker: Place: Rolex Learning Center Category Exhibitions Read more
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Document selection: 56 books to succeed in your studies 12.9.2024 – 07:00 > 23:59 Speaker: Place: Bibliothèque de l’EPFL Category Exhibitions Read more
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Document selection: Health books 26.9.2024 – 07:00 > 23:59 Speaker: Place: Bibliothèque de l’EPFL Category Exhibitions Read more
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PhD Course “Communication in Science and Technology” 27.9.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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High Scandium concentration AlScN resonators for 5G applications 1.11.2024 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Marco LIFFREDO Place: MED 0 1418 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Biodegradable and printed chipless environmental sensors for sustainable Internet-of-Things applications 1.11.2024 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: James Alec Pierce BOURELY Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Additive Manufacture of Metals with Complex Microstructure 4.11.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Matteo Seita, University of Cambridge, UK Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Renewable Energies Cluster Meeting 4.11.2024 – 13:30 > 17:30 Speaker: Place: GC B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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PhD candidates: Welcome to EPFL! 4.11.2024 – 16:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: RLC E1 240 Category Convention Read more
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MechE Colloquium: How bio-informed approaches can enhance flight maneuverability 5.11.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Christina Harvey, Biologically Informed Research and Design (BIRD) Lab, University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Beyond Ground State Simulations: Navigating Challenges in Excited States of Extended Molecules and Materials 5.11.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Workshop: How to not lie with charts and images – and take a sad plot and make it better 6.11.2024 – 11:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Helena Jambor, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (CH)  Place: BC 410 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Sustainable Space Hub Coffee 6.11.2024 – 13:00 > 14:00 Speaker: Place: PPB 019 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Seminar: Exploring and Explaining: Leveraging data visualization for research, communication and public health 7.11.2024 – 17:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Prof. Helena Jambor, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (CH)  Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Engineering nanomaterial surfaces for biomedical applications: antiviral surface coatings, antiviral nanoparticles and lipid-based biopharmaceutical drug systems 8.11.2024 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Heyun WANG Place: ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Marie Skłodovska-Curie Global Fellowships | Research and career funding 9.11.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Nucleation of diffusion controlled phase transformations in the solid state, beyond or beside classical nucleation theory ? 11.11.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Yves Bréchet, Collège de France Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Lost in Space: Design Manifolds Can Accelerate Design and Optimization Iterations Several Fold 12.11.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Mark Fuge, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, ETHZ Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Innosuisse Flagship Initiative call 2024 12.11.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Are engineers improvisers? 13.11.2024 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker: Prof. Simon Henein, professeur de microtechnique à l’EPFL et responsable du Performance Lighthouse, Alain Bovet, chercheur en sociologie à l’EPFL et Simona Ferrar, chargée de projet au Performance Lighthouse, performer et danseuse Place: Rolex Learning Center Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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monthly Grad Student Mini-Symposium (IBI-EDBB) 15.11.2024 – 17:00 > 18:00 Speaker: EDBB grad students Place: AI 1153 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SNSF & Innosuisse funding schemes ¦ information event 3/3 15.11.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Cancer Research Institute – Technology Impact Award | Research Funding 15.11.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Mapping and controlling three dimensional spin textures 18.11.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Dr. Claire Donnelly, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Bioinspired Problems of Fluid-Structure Interactions: Drag-Reduction by Reconfiguration, Kirigami Parachutes, and Soft Corals 19.11.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Frédérick Gosselin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Data/Code Publication 19.11.2024 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Place: PH H3 31 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Journées d’information 2024 20.11.2024 – 09:30 > 17:15 Speaker: Place: STCC 2 9428 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Mitigating Bias in Decision-Making Systems: a Control Systems Perspective 25.11.2024 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Dr Giulia De Pasquale, Post doc at ETH Zürich & Assistant Professor Control Systems group at Eindhoven University of Technology Place: ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Novel mathematics to discover novel materials 25.11.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Michael Herbst, EPFL Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Up to Speed with Zotero 26.11.2024 – 10:00 > 12:00 Speaker: EPFL Library Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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Extending Capabilities of Attention-based Models 27.11.2024 – 16:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Arnaud PANNATIER Place: CM 1 4 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Advanced STEM EBIC Imaging of Operating Electronic Devices 27.11.2024 – 17:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Dr. William A. Hubbard | CEO of NanoElectronic Imaging, Inc. Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Beyond Google: Find scientific information with advanced tools 28.11.2024 – 10:00 > 12:00 Speaker: EPFL Library Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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lunch&LEARN: An Automatic Grading System for Large Classes 28.11.2024 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Matt Bovel and Hamza Remmal Place: ME A3 31 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Quantum sensing for nanoscale materials research and engineering 2.12.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Patrick Maletinsky, University of Basel Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 32st call 2.12.2024 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Smart Publishing 5.12.2024 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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IMX Seminar Series – Short Peptides and Amino Acids as Building Blocks for Sustainable Materials and Coatings 9.12.2024 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Meital Reches, Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Fluidic shaping of optical components – from eyeglasses to space telescopes 10.12.2024 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Moran Bercovici, Fluidic Technologies Laboratory, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Fluctuation-Induced Couplings at the Solid-Liquid Interface 11.12.2024 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Baptiste Coquinot, Ph.D., Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Vienna-Klosterneuburg (AT) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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lunch&LEARN: Lessons learned from the first edition of a large second-year course in software construction 12.12.2024 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Shardul Chiplunkar and Clément Pit-Claudel  Place: ME A3 31 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Show “From Switzerland to the Moon” 19.12.2024 – 19:30 > 21:30 Speaker: Place: STCC -1 9101 Category Cultural events Read more
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Fondation Gelbert | Research funding 1.1.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Cancer Research Institute – Lloyd J. Old STAR Program | Research Funding 15.1.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Wellcome Trust | Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health 21.1.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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SCIEX Scientific Exchanges between Switzerland and Bulgaria | Call for proposals 3.2.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Greening AI with Software Engineering 3.2.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Info Session: CAS Value Chain Data Technologies 25.2.2025 – 18:00 > 18:30 Speaker: – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Density Functional Theory and Artificial Intelligence learning from each other 3.3.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Predicting and understanding drug-target binding kinetics via molecular simulations 10.3.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Managing Innovation in the Era of Data and AI 12.3.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Dr. Andrea Dunbar, Prof. Pierre Vandergheynst Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Automated ab initio workflows with jobflow, FireWorks, and atomate 17.3.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Fulfilling the Multiscale Promise in Materials: Getting Information out of the Atomistic Scale 31.3.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more

Research

Unexpected immune response may hold key to long-term cancer remission

Results from a preclinical study in mice, led by EPFL, and a collaborative clinical study in patients show that the type 2 immune response – associated with parasitic infection and thought to play a negative role in cancer immunity – is positively correlated with long-term cancer remission.

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Innovation

Two engineering professors win Melexis grants

Adrian Ionescu and Hatice Altug will receive funding from Melexis to develop sensors in the field of digital health. They were selected following a call for projects conducted as part of the industrial affiliation program offered by the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering (IEM).

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Education

Five PhD students receive STI Teaching Assistant Awards

Five engineering PhD students have been selected to receive a School of Engineering (STI) Teaching Assistant Award for their outstanding commitment to education in EPFL bachelor and master courses.

Education
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