• School of Engineering

    Appointment of STI professors

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

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  • School of Engineering

    Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines

    EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of natural materials for robotic applications.

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  • School of Engineering

    Edoardo Charbon elected to Optica

    Edoardo Charbon, head of the Advanced Quantum Architecture Lab (AQUA) in the School of Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the optics and photonics society Optica for his work on single photon avalanche diode cameras and sensors.

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  • School of Engineering

    Saving educational robots from the trash

    EPFL master’s student Alexandre Viegas has teamed up with repair website iFixit to develop rankings and repair guides for educational robots. His work aims to help students build new skills while promoting sustainable technology use.

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  • School of Engineering

    “Chip cooling will be key to the future of AI”

    For his PhD, Remco van Erp conducted pioneering research on liquid cooling systems that can be integrated directly into computer chips. He spoke with us about how the cross-disciplinary approach at EPFL’s POWERlab coupled with the boom in generative AI have catalyzed the growth of his startup, Corintis.

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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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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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Faculty Seminar Michele De Palma: Engineering dendritic cells for cancer immunotherapy 5.12.2025 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker: Michele De Palma Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Asphalt concrete: can it be a sustainable material? 5.12.2025 – 12:15 > 13:30 Speaker: Dr Martins Zaumanis, Group Leader of Bituminous Materials at Concrete and Asphalt Lab, EMPA Place: GC B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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New frontiers in ultrafast laser oscillators and intra-laser HHG 5.12.2025 – 15:15 > 16:15 Speaker: Prof. Thomas Südmeyer, Université de Neuchâtel Place: CM 1 2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Text-Graph Encoders and Retrieval-Augmented Generation 5.12.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Andrei Catalin COMAN Place: IDIAP Martigny Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Correlated vibrational spectroscopy: A new window into molecular interactions 5.12.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Mischa Samuel FLÓR Place: CM 1 5 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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From the design to the characterization of granular elastomers for 3D printing applications 5.12.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Eva Jeanne BAUR Place: MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Correlated vibrational spectroscopy: A new window into molecular interactions 5.12.2025 – 16:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Mischa Flór Place: CM 1 5 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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monthly Grad Student Mini-Symposium (IBI-EDBB) 5.12.2025 – 17:00 > 18:00 Speaker: EDBB grad students Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Artificial intelligence-driven clinical decision support system for cervical cancer detection in low- and middle-income settings: Technical development and deployment approach 5.12.2025 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Magali Catherine JONNALAGEDDA-CATTIN Place: CO 3 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Advanced imaging and cavitation bubbles as promising tools for hemodynamic disorders diagnosis and treatment 5.12.2025 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Antoine Michel SACHE Place: CO 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Unveiling self-phoretic colloidal propulsion 3.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Surprise Books 4.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Espace Découverte Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Let’s freeze the fines! 1.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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European calls in Health – National event 8.12.2025 – 13:30 > 15:30 Speaker: Place: Teams Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Recent advances in first-principles modeling of electron-phonon interactions 8.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Interactions between vertical and horizontal convections: from nuclear safety to the eye of cyclones 9.12.2025 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Dr. Michael Le Bars, IRPHE, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université Place: CM 1 4 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training “Reshaping Information Research with AI” 9.12.2025 – 14:00 > 16:00 Speaker: EPFL Library Training Team Place: CO 122 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Thermodynamics and Exotic Transport Phenomena in Emerging Materials 9.12.2025 – 18:15 > 00:00 Speaker: Changpeng LIN Place: MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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POW Seminar – Copper as a Nonlinear Platform: Stable SHG from Monocrystalline Microflakes 9.12.2025 – 18:15 > 20:15 Speaker: Elif Nur Dayi Place: CM 1 106 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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DNA-Encoded Protein Sensing 10.12.2025 – 09:00 > 10:00 Speaker: Sarah E. Sandler, Ph.D., Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA (USA) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Electron Microscopy Imaging of Highly Sensitive Crystalline Chemical Materials 10.12.2025 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker: Prof. Yu Han | Center for Electron Microscopy, South China University of Technology Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Understanding Adhesion in Living Materials 10.12.2025 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker: Maja Vuckovac, Ph.D., Aalto University, Espoo (SF) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Surfaces and Nanomaterials for Molecular Health Sensors 10.12.2025 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Prof. Andreas T. Güntner, ETH Zurich & University Hospital Zurich (CH) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Lunch: DeepInverse: a PyTorch library for solving imaging inverse problems with deep learning 10.12.2025 – 11:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Dr Julian Tachella, CNRS & ENS de Lyon Place: BC 410 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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7th Sustainable Space Hub Coffee: student projects proposed for the spring semester 10.12.2025 – 12:30 > 14:00 Speaker: Place: PPB 019 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Scalable Methods for Knowledge Graph Reasoning and Generation 10.12.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Andrej JANCHEVSKI Place: CO 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Abuse detection in Li-ion batteries using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy 10.12.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Shubham Sharad BHOIR Place: MA B1 11 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Characterization, Modeling, and Performance Enhancement of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Compact Systems 10.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Marjan GHORBANI Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Accessing the Nanoscale With Light 11.12.2025 – 09:00 > 10:00 Speaker: Francisco Balzarotti, Ph.D., Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna (AT) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Ultimate Speed Limit of Fluorescence and Stimulated Emission Imaging 11.12.2025 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker: Andrew E.S. Barentine, Ph.D., Stanford University, CA (USA) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training “Up to Speed with Zotero” 11.12.2025 – 10:00 > 11:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Training Team Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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Self-Driving, Multi-Scale Imaging of Cellular Dynamics Across Scales 11.12.2025 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Stephan Daetwyler, Ph.D., UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX (USA) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Information session – Transforming Business with AI and Data Tech 11.12.2025 – 12:30 > 13:00 Speaker: – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Cryogenic HEMT-based devices and circuits for quantum computing 12.12.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Alberto FERRARIS Place: IBM Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Monostatic Wi-Fi Sensing: Self-Interference Cancellation and Channel Splicing for Robust Vital-Sign Monitoring 12.12.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Andreas Toftegaard KRISTENSEN Place: ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Advanced electronic structure methods for photocatalytic water splitting 18.12.2025 – 18:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Marija STOJKOVIC Place: MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IMX Talks – Hierarchical structure and functionality of the mineralized tissue of shark vertebral centra 19.12.2025 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker: Dr. Stuart R. Stock, Northwestern University, Chicago USA Place: MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Shape the future of research data and code management in Switzerland 19.11.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Les têtes pe(n)santes – exposition 15.10.2025 – 00:00 > 23:59 Speaker: Jean-François Bert (Institut d’histoire et anthropologie des religions, UNIL) et Jérôme Lamy (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CNRS, Paris) Place: Rolex Learning Center Category Exhibitions Read more
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Tremblement – by Séverin Guelpa 10.10.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Séverin Guelpa, artiste (CH, GE) Place: Rolex Learning Center (extérieur et intérieur) Category Exhibitions Read more
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A roadmap for an atomistic machine learning software ecosystem 19.1.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI & Compute – Research Computing Platform (RCP) – Exchange session 21.1.2026 – 14:00 > 15:30 Speaker: Research Computing Platform Team Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Discover the Data Management Campus: Launch and Q&A Sessions 22.1.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Manufacturing multi-material metallic structures with engineered interfacial regions and microstructures using laser-based additive manufacturing techniques 23.1.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Seyed Amirmohammad JAMILI Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Elimination of Nanoscale Phase Impurities for Intrinsically Stable Formamidinium-Rich Perovskite Films and Devices 28.1.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr OTHMAN Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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SNIS | Research Funding 28.1.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Federal Office of Transport (FOT): Call for projects within the Energy Strategy 2050 in Public Transport (ESPT 2050) programme 31.1.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) – 4th JTC: Access to Care 2.2.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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EPFL AMLD – Intelligence Summit 2026 10.2.2026 – 08:00 > 19:00 Speaker: See program Place: STCC Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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3rd CECAM Discussion Meeting on Quantum Crystallography 11.2.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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13th Call for Proposals – CYD Fellowships: A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research 25.2.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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Campus Lecture Steve Anavi – Co-Founder of Qonto, a Digital Financial Services Company for Professionals and Alumni Award 2025 4.3.2026 – 17:30 > 19:30 Speaker: Place: Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Managing Innovation in the Era of Data and AI [March 2026] 11.3.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Transforming Business with AI & Data Tech – CAS in Value Chain Data Technologies [2026] 11.3.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: ODY -1 0021 Category Miscellaneous Read more

Research

A biodegradable smart sensor to monitor sensitive goods

Researchers from EPFL, Empa, and CSEM have developed a sustainable smart sensing tag that can be used to signal when shipments of medicines or food have exceeded a safe threshold temperature. It is the first such tag to be fully compostable.

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Education

Students build hands-on skills (and gyroscopes) in machining course

A new intensive machining course gives microengineering students the opportunity to develop practical skills using the equipment and expertise of EPFL’s Technical Workshops Platform.

Education
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Innovation

Record broken for the longest Hyperloop trial at EPFL

As part of the LIMITLESS project, scientists from EPFL, HEIG-VD and Swisspod have completed the longest-ever vacuum capsule journey in Europe’s first operational Hyperloop test facility.

Innovation
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