• School of Engineering

    New sustainable materials course rewards best projects

    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.

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  • School of Engineering

    Adrian Ionescu elected to Academia Europaea

    Following a competitive recommendation and peer review process, School of Engineering professor Adrian M. Ionescu has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences.

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  • School of Engineering

    “Europe and Switzerland need more innovation and tech companies”

    EPFL alumnus Daniel Yanisse is the CEO and co-founder of Checkr, the first automatic software to perform background checks on employee candidates. The US based software company now employs over 750 people and boasts over 100,000 customers.

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  • School of Engineering

    EPFL hosts RoboSoft 2025

    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. 

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  • School of Engineering

    “In industry, my job was to mitigate problems. Now I look for causes”

    Eunok Yim is head of EPFL’s new Hydro Energy & Applied fluid Dynamics Lab. Her path to academia was illuminated by a four-year stint at General Electric, where she worked on optimizing hydropower mechanical performance.

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  • School of Engineering

    New type of weather radiosonde can find its way back

    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.

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

Some highlights

Materials Science Section celebrates 50 years

The Materials Science Section (SMX) in the School of Engineering celebrated its 50th birthday with an event highlighting the history and future of materials research and education at EPFL.

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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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The School of Engineering’s Highly Cited Researchers in 2024

In the latest rankings issued by Clarivate, three distinguished professors from EPFL’s School of Engineering have been recognized as part of the elite group of the most cited researchers of the year.

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Research clusters

Advanced manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Bio-Inspired Technology Energy Science and Research Health Science & Technology Imaging Science Nanotechnology Quantum Science & Technology Robotics Soft Materials Sustainability

Upcoming Events

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Join Us for an Exciting Evening of Science and Storytelling at FameLab Lausanne! 3.4.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: to be announced Place: SV 1717 Category Public Science Events Read more
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Idiap Create Challenge 14th Editon 10.5.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Public Science Events Read more
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Document selection : Nuclear fusion 1.5.2025 – 07:00 > 23:45 Speaker: Place: Bibliothèque de l’EPFL Category Exhibitions Read more
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EPFL BioE Talks SERIES “On Microbes and Particles: The Ocean at the Microscale” 26.5.2025 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker: Prof. Roman Stocker, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich (CH) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – From supramolecular polymers to functional materials and systems 26.5.2025 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker: Prof. Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Event-based sensing for efficient processing in low-power IoT platforms 26.5.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Silvio ZANOLI Place: ELA 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Knet Theory: A Reappraisal 26.5.2025 – 18:00 > 19:00 Speaker: Anton Vishio teaches music theory, musicianship, and global music analysis as an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Place: BC 410 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Swiss-Polish Call for Applied Research Projects 2025 26.5.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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REGARD: Pitching myself for Industry: My strategy for Success 27.5.2025 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Romaine Johnstone, coach facilitator & trainer Place: BI A0 448 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Silent Mix 3 at EPFL Library “Listen and Study” 27.5.2025 – 16:00 > 19:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Wisdom in Silence: Meditation and Ancient Eastern Wisdom for Modern Life 27.5.2025 – 17:30 > 19:15 Speaker: Venerable Homagama Rewatha Thero Place: CO 2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Deep Learning students tackle online hate speech – Poster Session on 28 May 28.5.2025 – 08:30 > 13:30 Speaker: Students who attended the Deep Learning course EE-559 Place: MED Hall Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI for Science series – Prof. Wengong Jin 28.5.2025 – 14:15 > 15:15 Speaker: Prof. Wengong Jin Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Call for projects: CROSS 2026 (Collaborative Research on Science and Society) 11.3.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Workshop week – series on meditation, mind and modern science 2.6.2025 – 09:30 > 17:00 Speaker: Venerable Homagama Rewatha Thero Place: BC 410 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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cGAS-nucleosome interactome: Bridging epigenetics, genome organization and innate immunity 3.6.2025 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker: Monsef Benkirane, Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS – Université de Montpellier, France Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Lunch: Introduction to Photogrammetric Reconstruction: Theory and Application with Meshroom 4.6.2025 – 11:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Dr Florian Aymanns  Place: CE 1 711.2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application 4.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Workshop: Hands-on generative AI for education 5.6.2025 – 13:00 > 16:00 Speaker: Patrick Jermann, Javier Lloret Pardo, Florian Dufour, Kim Lynn Uittenhove, Aitor Perez Place: BC 329 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Volkswagen Stiftung | Night Science – Space for the creative mind 5.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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HALOS 5.6.2025 – 18:00 > 20:00 Speaker: Place: ART A0 100 Category Exhibitions Read more
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A Separation Principle for data-driven predictive control – the role of models and beyond 6.6.2025 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Chiuso, Ph.D. – IEEE Fellow Place: ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Electrowetting on a Dielectric (EWOD) for soft robotics 6.6.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Robert Marius HENNIG Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Training “Reshaping Information Research with AI” 10.6.2025 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Teaching Team Place: CO 121, EPFL, 1015 Category Internal trainings Read more
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AI & Compute – Research Computing Platform (RCP) – Exchange session 11.6.2025 – 14:00 > 15:30 Speaker: Research Computing Platform Team Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Neuroscience-inspired computer vision and language modeling for behavior analysis 12.6.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Shaokai YE Place: Campus Biotech Bâtiment H8; Chem. des Mines 9; 1202 Geneva Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Honorary Lecture – Prof. Karl Aberer 12.6.2025 – 18:00 > 19:00 Speaker: Professor Karl Aberer Place: CO 1 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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Quantum computing through the lens of control: Introduction and robustness properties 13.6.2025 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Julian Berberich is a Lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Place: ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Bioengineering of morphologically and functionally accurate in vitro intestinal models 13.6.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Jakob Josef LANGER Place: SV 1717 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Swiss Quantum Commission, call for pre-proposals 13.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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The body on stage in light of improvisation 14.6.2025 – 19:30 > 21:00 Speaker: Simon Henein (professeur in microengineering, EPFL) and Joëlle Valterio (performer and teaching assistant, EPFL)  Place: Arsenic Lausanne Category Cultural events Read more
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EPC Summer Hike 2025 15.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Cultural events Read more
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Analytical Data Fusion Approaches to Update Mobility Patterns in Real-time. 16.6.2025 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Place: GC B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Faculty Seminar Jacques Fellay: Genomic insights into infectious diseases: from variants to clinical applications 16.6.2025 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker: Prof Jacques Fellay Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 34th call 16.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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The role of multivalency and superselectivity in the regulation of the immune system 16.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training “Reshaping Information Research with AI” 17.6.2025 – 09:00 > 11:00 Speaker: EPFL Library Teaching Team Place: CO 120, EPFL, 1015 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Information session: Unlock AI, IoT & Digital Twins for Agility & Risk-Readiness: CAS in Value Chain Data Technologies 17.6.2025 – 18:00 > 18:30 Speaker: – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Cancer Grand Challenges | 2025 call 18.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Training “Up to Speed with Zotero” 19.6.2025 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Teaching Team Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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Workshop: Hands-on generative AI for education 19.6.2025 – 13:00 > 16:00 Speaker: Patrick Jermann, Javier Lloret Pardo, Florian Dufour, Kim Lynn Uittenhove, Aitor Perez Place: BC 129 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Liquid-phase electron microscopy of electrochemical processes: Microcells configuration, corrosion of aluminium current collector and lithium-ion battery cycling 20.6.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Morgan Julien André BARBEY-BINGGELI Place: MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Superconducting microwave oscillators as detectors for ESR spectroscopy 20.6.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Roberto RUSSO Place: ELA 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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The atomic simulation environment ecosystem: Present and perspectives 23.6.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Venice Data Week 2025 – Workshop on Historical Data and Digital Methods 25.6.2025 – 09:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Training “Stay Away from Plagiarism” 26.6.2025 – 09:30 > 11:00 Speaker: EPFL Library Training Team Place: MED 0 1418 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Role and Opportunities of Gas bearing supported Turbomachinery in small-scale SOFC-CHP systems 27.6.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Victoria Xu Hong HE Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Trustworthy Data Science and AI Workshop 30.6.2025 – 08:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Prof. Bin Yu (University of California, Berkeley) ; Prof. Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich) ; Prof. Frauke Kreuter (LMU Munich) ; Prof. Su-In Lee (University of Washington) ; Prof. Stefan Bauer (Technical University of Munich) Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Open software for neural wavefunctions 2.7.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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ELLIS Unit Lausanne – AI for Health Summer School 2025 7.7.2025 – 08:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Confirmed speakers Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Advancing simulation, analysis and prediction of complex chemical systems using modern chemical graph theory and computational topology 16.7.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SNSF Postdoc.Mobility call ¦ Career funding 5.8.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Summer School – From Science to Action 18.8.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Speakers Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Gaznat – EPFL Research Programme – Call for proposals 21.8.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 1/2) 1.9.2025 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist Place: BI A0 448 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AAMS 2025 – Alloys for Additive Manufac­tu­ring Symposium – Sept. 3-5 EPFL Neuchâtel campus 3.9.2025 – 08:30 > 16:00 Speaker: Dr.-Ing. Florian Hengsbach, Dr. Lukas Kaserer, Prof. Aude Simar, Prof. Christian Haase, Prof. Venkata Karthik Nadimpalli, Prof. Marie-Agathe Charpagne Place: MC A1 272 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Talks – Reverse Engineering the Nervous System with Biohybrid Electronics 8.9.2025 – 14:15 > 14:55 Speaker: Prof. Achilleas Savva, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Place: MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Talks – Micro electro-mechanical physiological systems (MEMPhyS) 8.9.2025 – 15:00 > 15:45 Speaker: Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Place: MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Managing Innovation in the Era of Data and AI 8.9.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Value Chain Data Techonologies – Certificate of Advanced Studies 8.9.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 2/2) 15.9.2025 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist Place: BI A0 448 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Statistical physics of living systems 16.9.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Photonics Day 2025 23.10.2025 – 08:30 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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PhD candidates: Welcome to EPFL! 6.11.2025 – 16:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: RLC E1 240 Category Convention Read more
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La Rampe, artistic installation by Delphine Reist 9.10.2024 – 06:00 > 23:59 Speaker: Delphine Reist, artiste Place: Rolex Learning Center Category Exhibitions Read more

Research

Robotic hand moves objects with human-like grasps

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming.

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Education

Fifteen PhD students receive STI Teaching Assistant Awards

Fifteen 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 during the fall 2024 semester.

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Innovation

EPFL robotics spin-off MIROS unveils smart workspaces

MIROS Technology has announced the first commercial implementation of their transformable workspace: a smart system developed using technology patented in the Reconfigurable Robotics lab led by Jamie Paik in EPFL’s School of Engineering.

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