• School of Engineering

    Nanopores act like electrical gates

    EPFL researchers uncover how charge and structure control ion flow in biological nanopores, paving the way for new biosensors and ion-based computing.

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  • School of Engineering

    Nako Nakatsuka wins Ruzicka Prize

    Nako Nakatsuka, head of the Laboratory of Chemical Nanotechnology in the School of Engineering, has been selected by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurch (ETH Zurich) to receive the prestigious Ruzicka Prize 2025.

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  • School of Engineering

    Pierre Vandergheynst and Christophe Ballif win ERC Synergy Grants

    The European Research Council announced on Thursday that School of Engineering professors Pierre Vandergheynst and Christophe Ballif have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants to tackle major scientific challenges.

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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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QSE Quantum Seminar: Mini algorithms-fest – John Martyn and Jonathan Lu 13.11.2025 – 12:00 > 14:00 Speaker: John Martyn Jonathan Lu Place: BS 160 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training “Ethics in Research Data Management: Anonymization and Best Practices” 13.11.2025 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Research Data Team Place: CO 120 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Imaging Seminar: New microstructure and functional MRI techniques for the investigation of the human brain 13.11.2025 – 17:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Prof. Ileana Jelescu, CHUV/UNIL Place: BC 410 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Subwavelength Time-Reversal Imaging and Multipole Expansions in Anisotropic Media: Theory and Applications 13.11.2025 – 18:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Elias Per Joachim LE BOUDEC Place: MED 0 1418 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Listening from the heart 13.11.2025 – 18:15 > 19:45 Speaker: Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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EPFL Research Data Week 2025 6.11.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: EPFL campus Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Futures of Health: Explore, Understand, Act 11.11.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Exhibitions Read more
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Training “Intro to Overleaf Beginner & Intermediate Features” 11.11.2025 – 09:30 > 11:00 Speaker: Overleaf instructor Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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Swiss Robotics Day 2025 14.11.2025 – 09:00 > 19:00 Speaker: Prof. Aude Billard, Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Isabelle Moret, Prof. Stefana Parascho, Prof. Mirko Kovac, Steve Tanner, Prof. Stefano Mintchev, Alberto Bombelli, Sylvia, Stocker, Sebastien Perroud, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza, Prof. Anna Valente, Roger Sonderegger, Jean-Marc Collet, Gabriel Moser,  Cedric Lienhard and more. Place: SwissTech Convention Center Category Public Science Events Read more
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Conception à faible impact, l’approche d’une coopérative pluridisciplinaire 14.11.2025 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker: Eve Blatti, Julien Pathé, Elodie Vautrin Place: GC B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Adjoint-free method for mean resolvent analysis of periodic flows 14.11.2025 – 13:30 > 14:15 Speaker: Dr Alessandro Bongarzone Place: ME B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EBSD and TKD for Multiscale Crystallography of Shape Memory Alloys 14.11.2025 – 15:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Junfeng XIAO Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Neuromorphic Electronics: From Supercapacitors to Antiferroelectric 2D-FETs 14.11.2025 – 16:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Hung-Wei LI Place: CO 3 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Functionalized Solid-State Nanopore: Energy Harvesting and Ionic Circuitry 14.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Yunfei TENG Place: CM 1 4 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Bridging Lengthscales in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Modeling 14.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Francesca LORENZUTTI Place: CM 1 3 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Gravity-driven thin films: flow and dissolution 14.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Simeon Vladimirov DJAMBOV Place: ME B3 31 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Junior Quantum Seminar – Marco Scigliuzzo & Aleksei Gaier 18.11.2025 – 09:30 > 11:00 Speaker: Marco Scigliuzzo and Aleksei Gaier Place: CE 1 100 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Motion Planning with Precedence Specifications via Augmented Graphs of Convex Sets 18.11.2025 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Tyler Summer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas Place: CM 1 4 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center x IBI – Distinguished Seminar Series – Prof. Fabian Theis 18.11.2025 – 14:15 > 15:15 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian J. Theis Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI & Impact – Community Meetup 18.11.2025 – 16:00 > 20:00 Speaker: See program Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Modular Reversible Solid Oxide Cells Systems Design 18.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Xinyi WEI Place: Grand-Pont 2 Sion Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Anticipating the Agentic Era: Assessing the Disruptions by AI Agents 19.11.2025 – 09:30 > 17:30 Speaker: Nils Amiet – Lead Prototyping Engineer – Kudelski Security, Magdalena Barska – Senior Manager Technology & Data Management – Accenture, Julia Bazinska – Senior Research Engineer – Lakera AI, Prof. Andrea Cavallaro – Head of L’IDIAP Laboratory – EPFL, Michel Jaccard – Founder – id est avocats, Prof. Martin Jaggi – Head of Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory – EPFL, Mark Meuldijk – Executive Management Consultant – AI & Data – Digital Assurance – PwC Switzerland, Mark Müller – Co-Founder and CTO – LogicStar AI, Kevin O’Sullivan – Co-Director – ETHZ Agentic Systems Lab, Marcel Salathé – Co-Director – EPFL AI Center, Petar Tsankov – CEO and Co-Founder – LatticeFlow AI, Lea Strohm – Senior Technical Product Manager – Thomson Reuters, Clarissa Valli Büttow – FNS Senior Researcher – UNIL Place: Starling Hotel, Conference Center Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Lunch: Particle Tracking with TrackMate 19.11.2025 – 11:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Dr Laure Le Blanc, Unité du Prof. Persat, EPFL  Dr Daniel Sage, EPFL Center for Imaging  Place: CE 1 711.2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI & Compute – Research Computing Platform (RCP) – Exchange session 19.11.2025 – 14:00 > 15:30 Speaker: Research Computing Platform Team Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Special IMX/ISIC Colloquium – Semiconductor nanowire building blocks: from gate-all-around transistors, nanolasers to photochemical diodes 19.11.2025 – 16:15 > 17:15 Speaker: Prof. Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley USA Place: MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Launch initiative s’EPanouir-FLourish 19.11.2025 – 16:15 > 18:30 Speaker: Ambrogio Fasoli, Nicolas Grandjean Place: SG 294.22 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Information session – Transforming Business with AI and Data Tech 19.11.2025 – 18:00 > 18:30 Speaker: – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place: Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Antibody and Complement Effector Functions: Pathogenic Roles and Therapeutic Potential 20.11.2025 – 10:30 > 11:30 Speaker: Karel F.A. Van Damme, Ghent University, Belgium Place: AI 1153 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI for Longitudinal Medical Data: From Trajectories to Insights 20.11.2025 – 14:00 > 18:00 Speaker: See program Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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CECAM-MARVEL Mary Ann Mansigh series: Telling scientific stories — from science journalism to comics and visual storytelling 20.11.2025 – 15:00 > 18:30 Speaker: Sara Ibrahim (swissinfo.ch) and Roberto Natalini (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo at the National Research Council of Italy) Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Author Workshop: Article Writing 21.11.2025 – 13:00 > 16:00 Speaker: Prof Luc Thévenaz, Prof Olivier Martin, Dr Claus Roll Place: CO 122 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Teaching toolkit for LABS 24.11.2025 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Joelyn de Lima, Nihat Kotluk Place: online Category Internal trainings Read more
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EPFL Pre-NeurIPS 2025 Regional Event 24.11.2025 – 15:00 > 19:00 Speaker: See program Place: CO 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Electronic Structure Reading Group: Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics 24.11.2025 – 16:00 > 17:30 Speaker: Edrick Solís González Place: MA B1 524 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Open Pulse Mini Hackathon 25.11.2025 – 09:00 > 15:00 Speaker: Place: BC 05, EPFL, Lausanne Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training “Beyond Google: Find scientific information with advanced tools” 25.11.2025 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Training Team Place: Category Internal trainings Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Towards Hands-Off Automation: Data-Driven Design, Robustness, and Real-Time Control 25.11.2025 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Colin Jones, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, EPFL  Place: CM 1 4 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals series – Dr. Matteo Negri 25.11.2025 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker: Dr. Matteo Negri Place: ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Uncertainty quantification in atomistic modeling: From uncertainty-aware density functional theory to machine learning 25.11.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Investor Day 2025 – Conference 26.11.2025 – 15:00 > 19:30 Speaker: Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Edouard Bugnion, Raphaël Conz, Yves Felder, Dr. Burkhard P. Varnholt, Patrick Hertzog, Simone de Montmollin, Nicolas Autret, Alexis Houssou, Andrea Basso, Quentin Calleja Place: STCC Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Seminar: From Digital Humans to Digital Patients: 3D Face Modeling and Simulation for Healthcare 27.11.2025 – 17:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Prof. Barbara Solenthaler, ETH Zurich Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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NanoEngineering gone #viral: plant virus-based therapeutics 28.11.2025 – 12:00 > 13:30 Speaker: Nicole F. Steinmetz, Ph.D. Leo and Trude Szilard Chancellor’s Endowed Chair  Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering University of California, San Diego Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Advanced Optoelectronic Design for Perovskite-Silicon Multijunction Solar Cells 28.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Kerem ARTUK Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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System-aware Architectural Co-design to Tackle the Memory Wall 28.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Rafael MEDINA MORILLAS Place: ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Swiss Foundation for Alcohol Research | Funding for research projects, conferences and publications 30.11.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal 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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BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 36th call 1.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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armasuisse – Research Program Security – Call for proposals 1.12.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Molecular Electronics as a Playground for Nanoscale Thermal Transport 2.12.2025 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Juan Carlos Cuevas, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Department, Autonomous University of Madrid Place: CM 1 4 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training “Data/Code Publication” 2.12.2025 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Research Data Team Place: CO 122 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Optimizing Robotic Systems at All Scales 2.12.2025 – 16:00 > 17:00 Speaker: Assistant Professor Brian K. Plancher, Computer Science at Dartmouth College, USA. Place: ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Logic Synthesis Foundations for Efficient Secure Computation: From Garbled Circuits to Fully Homomorphic Encryption 3.12.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Mingfei YU Place: MXF 1 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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Training “Stay Away from Plagiarism” 4.12.2025 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker: EPFL Library Training Team Place: CO 120 Category Internal trainings Read more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SNIS | Research Funding 28.1.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: Category Call for proposal 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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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

Three QSE researchers awarded SNSF Swiss-Korean quantum grants

The “Korean-Swiss Science and Technology Programme” is part of the Swiss government’s bilateral programmes between the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

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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.

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