• School of Engineering

    Using brain imaging to study the spinal cord

    Several EPFL labs are converging around an idea that began as a doctoral researcher’s hunch: the spinal cord revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging might unlock new therapies.

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  • School of Engineering

    “Classes must open windows into an almost infinite body of knowledge”

    Andreas Mortensen has been an EPFL professor of materials science for the past 30 years and has held various management positions at the School, including vice president for research. He’s the winner of this year’s best teacher award for his section, handed out at the 2026 master’s graduation ceremony. .

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  • School of Engineering

    Apply to the E3 EPFL Excellence in Engineering Program 2027

    Are you interested in joining EPFL for an unforgettable summer research experience? You can now register for the 2027 edition of E3! The application deadline is November 1st, 2026.

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  • School of Engineering

    Appointments in the School of Engineering

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

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  • School of Engineering

    Smart sweat patch helps doctors monitor high-risk pregnancies

    An EPFL spin-off is developing a patch-like medical device that reads sweat biomarkers. Its first application will be keeping a close watch on high-risk pregnancies.

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119 Professors & senior scientists
3568 Bachelor and Master Students
822 PhD Students
10 Centers

Some highlights

Students invent devices that businesses haven't yet conjured up

In the Assistive Technology Challenge (ATC), supervised by School of Engineering professors, EPFL master’s students carry out projects to develop practical systems for the disabled.
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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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“We're about to see a paradigm shift in the manufacture of implants”

We spoke with Prof. Stéphanie P. Lacour, a global expert in soft implants, about her research. Lacour is EPFL’s Vice President for Support to Strategic Initiatives and head of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces in the School of Engineering.
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Research clusters

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Upcoming Events

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Photonics Day 2026 22.10.2026 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker Place RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals series – Anej Svete – "Expressivity-Maxxing: What To Do When Your Transformer Is Giving Mid" 22.10.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Anej Svete Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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QSE Quantum Seminar: "Quantum simulation of gauge theories – from quantum fields to quantum devices" 22.10.2026 – 12:00 > 13:30 Speaker Torsten Zache Place CE 1 103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Electronic structure reading group – Markus Penz 22.10.2026 – 16:00 > 17:30 Speaker Markus Penz Place MA B1 524 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 22.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL 13.10.2026 – 17:30 > 18:30 Speaker Stefana Parascho Place Hall SG Category Cultural events Read more
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Personalized Health and Related Technolgies (PHRT) Exhibition 13.10.2026 – 18:00 > 10:00 Speaker Place SV 1204 Category Exhibitions Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 13.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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armasuisse – Research Program Security – Call for proposals 1.10.2026 – 00:00 > 17:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Document selection: Do robots dream of working alongside humans? 5.10.2026 – 07:00 > 23:45 Speaker Place Espace Découverte Category Exhibitions Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 8.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 15.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 20.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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EPFL BioEngineering Talks 26.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:45 Speaker Invited Speaker and Student Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Does H2O transmute to H2O2 or HO• + H• at the Air–Water Interface of Microscale Droplets / Bubbles? 26.10.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Himanshu Mishra, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Make Humanoid Robots as Affordable, Reliable and Practical as PCs 26.10.2026 – 14:00 > 16:00 Speaker Sixiao Yang, Global GTM Europe Booster Robotics Place MED Hall Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Local Rheological Probes of Stress Heterogeneities in Active and Passive Fluids 27.10.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Daniel Blair, Department of Physics, University of Georgetown, USA Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MAMCS : Who writes the code? Algorithms, software, creativity, and reliability in the age of AI 27.10.2026 – 15:00 > 18:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Innosuisse-Armasuisse Flagship Initiative 2026 27.10.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 27.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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From Single Cells to Single Individuals: Learning from Heterogeneity in Cell Fate Decisions 28.10.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Silvia Domcke, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Information session – CAS in Technology 28.10.2026 – 12:30 > 13:00 Speaker – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Learning pipelines bridging reinforcement learning and adaptive control 28.10.2026 – 15:15 > 16:15 Speaker Dr Feiran Zhao, postdoctoral researcher at Automatic Control Lab in ETH Zurich Place ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Engineering Clay-Based Materials for Sustainable Energy Production and Energy Conservation in Earth and Space Applications 28.10.2026 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker Biruktait Ayele LEMECHO Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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The uncomfortable truth 28.10.2026 – 17:30 > 19:00 Speaker Vincent Bieri, co-founder of Nexthink and Role Model for Project Switzerland Place CM 1 3 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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3rd EPFL Research Data Support Network Gathering 29.10.2026 – 09:00 > 12:00 Speaker Christopher Tremblay, Nicolas Machado, Rok Roskar, Charlie Weil, Angela Montano Garcia Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Latsis Symposium 2026: “Decoding the Cell: Modeling, Predicting, and Engineering Cellular States” 29.10.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker SPEAKERS Place Olympic Museum Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 29.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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From cold rolling to recrystallization annealing: an experimental and modeling study of microstructure and texture evolution in a recycled Al-Mg-Si alloy 30.10.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Yandong JING Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Development of thin-film lithium niobate photonic devices for nonlinear frequency conversion in astronomical instrumentation 30.10.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Furkan AYHAN Place ELA 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Practical Model-Based Control of Autonomous Systems: From Models to Software to Deployment 30.10.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Johannes Christian Karl WAIBEL Place ME B3 31 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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FLP Coaching Group 25.9.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Dr. Ingrid Le Duc and Dr. Verity Elston Place EPFL Category Internal trainings Read more
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Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL 9.9.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker CRCL – Lab for Creative Computation Place Archizoom Category Exhibitions Read more
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QSE INSPIRE Quantum Master's Awards 6.7.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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QSE Innovation Seed Grants 7.7.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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EPFL BioEngineering Talks 2.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:45 Speaker Invited Speaker and Student Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Stay Away from Plagiarism" 2.11.2026 – 14:00 > 16:00 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place GR A3 31 Category Internal trainings Read more
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IMX Talks – Resolving Hierarchical Structure with X-ray scattering imaging 2.11.2026 – 16:30 > 17:30 Speaker Prof. Marianne Liebi, EPFL STI IMX CAM-X Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SNSF Ambizione 2026: Call now open 3.11.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 3.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Trust, Sensing, and Learning for Provable Multi-Robot Performance 5.11.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Stephanie Gil Place MED 2 1124 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Cogito Lunch #01: When Does Consciousness Begin? 5.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker Michael Herzog, Professor in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, EPFL; Amir Zamir, Professor in AI and machine Learning, EPFL and André Ourednik, Geographer, fiction writer, and lecturer at EPFL. Place Rolex Learning Center Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MARVEL Junior Seminar 5.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker Shashank Saxena (Laboratoire de conception et simulation des matériaux – MADES, EPFL) + Sofiia Chorna (Laboratoire de science computationnelle et modélisation – COSMO, EPFL) Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Ethics in Research Data Management: Anonymization and Best Practices" 5.11.2026 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker EPFL Library Research Data Team Place AAC 0 08 Category Internal trainings Read more
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PhD Candidates: Welcome to EPFL! 5.11.2026 – 16:00 > 19:00 Speaker Place RLC E1 240 Category Convention Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 5.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Plasmonically-Enhancing Monolayer MoS2 for Ultrathin Photoelectrochemical Electrodes in Neutral Water 6.11.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Kyle Bradley HAAS Place MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Modeling spinal locomotor circuits with spiking neural networks, mechanical simulations and robotics 6.11.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Alessandro PAZZAGLIA Place MED 0 1418 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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L'Affaire des Méga-constellations 6.11.2026 – 20:00 > 22:00 Speaker Place Casino de Montbenon – salle Paderewski, Lausanne Category Cultural events Read more
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Technologies for Healthcare / ARCHIZOOM 7.11.2026 – 10:00 > 17:00 Speaker Madeline Gannon Place Archizoom Category Cultural events Read more
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EPFL BioEngineering Talks 9.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:45 Speaker Invited Speaker and Student Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Designer Quantum Materials from Carbon 9.11.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Roman Fasel, EMPA, Zürich Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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When Control Changes the Data: Safety under Interaction-Driven Distribution Shifts 9.11.2026 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker Professor Lars Lindemann , Assistant Professor for Algorithmic Systems Theory in the Automatic Control Laboratory @ ETH Zürich Place ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships – 3rd Call 9.11.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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FLP Workshop: Design your future – Planning a fulfilling work and self-realisation experience 9.11.2026 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker Afi Sika Kuzeawu With a passion for creation, and a motivation for true fulfilment in life, I help people figure out what would be the right ingredients for them to experience an inspired and brilliant professional life. I draw on my knowledge and my personal experience to coach students, doctoral candidates and professionals in the course of their career decisions. As a creative consultant, I also work with entrepreneurs and public institutions to help them design and develop concepts out of their ideas, so that these can be implemented in the real world. Place EPFL Category Internal trainings Read more
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Apertus for NGOs: A Workshop on Running and Deploying Switzerland's Open-source LLM 10.11.2026 – 09:00 > 12:30 Speaker See program Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Seminar – Seeing the unseen: computational imaging across applications 10.11.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Luca Calatroni, Associate Professor, University of Genoa, Italy Place BC 420 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Valais Wallis Health Day 10.11.2026 – 11:00 > 19:00 Speaker Ingrid Le Duc, Diane Duperret, Chantal Martin Sölch Place ALPOLE Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Bubble nucleation and related wettability effects: from fundamentals to durable interfaces 10.11.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Matevž Zupančič, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SNSF: Biodiversa+ 2026 10.11.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 10.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Practical Course by BIOP : Super Resolution Made Easy 11.11.2026 – 13:00 > 17:00 Speaker Angélique Vinit, Arthur Baroni, José Artacho Place AI 0140 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Inaugural Lectures SV – Paloma Navarro, Florian Schüder 11.11.2026 – 17:15 > 19:30 Speaker Prof. Paloma Navarro Prof. Florian Schüder Place SV 1717 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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Meet the TTO – November 2026 12.11.2026 – 11:30 > 12:15 Speaker Place KNOVA, Building J, 2nd floor, EPFL Innovation Park Category Internal trainings Read more
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SUPER SANDWICH SEMINAR 12.11.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Free slot;  Irmak Kaysudu, D’Angelo Lab;  Cédric Pourroy, Gönczy Lab Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Mechanics-Informed Textile Actuators for Soft Wearable Robotics 12.11.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Huapeng ZHANG Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 12.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Sustainable Academy Seminar #7 Plastic Curse 13.11.2026 – 12:00 > 13:30 Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Engineering Leadership in a World of Accelerating Change 16.11.2026 – 12:00 > 13:15 Speaker Dr. Tsu-Jae Liu Place RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL BioEngineering Talks 16.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:45 Speaker Invited Speaker and Student Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – High entropy alloys as versatile platforms for solid-state hydrogen storage 16.11.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Claudia Zlotea, CRNS, France Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Smart Publishing" 17.11.2026 – 10:00 > 12:00 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place ELG 116 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Information session – CAS in Technology 17.11.2026 – 18:00 > 18:30 Speaker – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 17.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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2026 UNIL/EPFL MD-PhD Retreat 18.11.2026 – 08:45 > 18:00 Speaker Place Auditoire César Roux, CHUV, Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Journées d’information 2026 18.11.2026 – 09:30 > 17:15 Speaker Place STCC 2 9428 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Sustainable Labs: Get Involved 19.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Place MA A0 364 Category Internal trainings Read more
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REGARD Workshop: Pitching myself for industry: Honing my application skills 20.11.2026 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker Romaine Johnstone, Coache Professionnelle certifiée ORSC™ – Formatrice – Consultante Place ONLINE Category Internal trainings Read more
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Designing Social Robots with Older Adults: Context, Adaptation, and Dignity 23.11.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Prof. Chorong Park Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Ultrafast Electron Microscopy 23.11.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Claus Ropers, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Göttingen), Germany Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Up to Speed with Zotero" 24.11.2026 – 14:00 > 15:30 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place Category Internal trainings Read more
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Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL 24.11.2026 – 17:30 > 18:15 Speaker Stefana Parascho Place Archizoom Category Cultural events Read more
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SSOM Fall Meeting | In Situ Microscopy: Recent Developments 25.11.2026 – 10:00 > 14:00 Speaker Place ALPOLE | EPFL Valais Wallis Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Investor Day 2026 – Discover & Network 25.11.2026 – 15:00 > 19:00 Speaker Place SwissTech Convention Center Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Neuchâtel Health Day 26.11.2026 – 11:00 > 18:15 Speaker Catherine Marselli, Ingrid Le Duc, Christa Uehlinger Place Microcity Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Data/Code Publication" 26.11.2026 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker EPFL Library Research Data Team Place INM 011 Category Internal trainings Read more
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EPFL BioEngineering Talks 30.11.2026 – 12:15 > 13:45 Speaker Invited Speaker and Student Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Reshaping Information Research with AI" 1.12.2026 – 14:30 > 16:30 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place MED 0 1618 Category Internal trainings Read more
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QSE Center Winter Apéro 1.12.2026 – 16:00 > 19:30 Speaker Place Starling Hotel Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 40th call 1.12.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Swiss Federal Office of Energy – SOUR Call 1-2026: Supply Security on the Path to a Net-Zero Energy System 1.12.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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EPFL Pre-NeurIPS 2026 Poster Session 2.12.2026 – 16:00 > 19:00 Speaker Place TBD Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SUPER SANDWICH SEMINAR 3.12.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Joe Griggs, Hess Lab;  Arianna Dorschel, Trono Lab;  Free slot Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Safe Guaranteed Exploration for Non-linear Systems 4.12.2026 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker Dr Manish Prajapat Ph.D. reinforcement learning and control from ETH Zurich Winner of the IEEE CSS Young Author Best Journal Paper Award 2026 Place ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Biorenewable approaches to functional food packaging and textiles 4.12.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Thanh Thi Hà LÊ Place MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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EPFL BioEngineering Talks 7.12.2026 – 12:15 > 13:45 Speaker Invited Speaker and Student Speaker Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Unravelling how atomic motion takes place in molecules and materials 7.12.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Mariana Rossi, University of Cambridge, UK Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Modeling Materials and Interfaces in Electrochemistry: From Prediction to Validation 14.12.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Dr. Ismaila Dabo, Carneigie Mellon University, USA Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SiDoQu-2027 Conference 22.2.2027 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Monte-Verità Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Managing Innovation in the Era of Data and AI 10.3.2027 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Miscellaneous Read more

Research

A $3 million Endeavor Grant for cross-disciplinary cancer research

A $3 million Endeavor Grant for cross-disciplinary cancer research

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has awarded $12 million across four Endeavor Grants to support cross-disciplinary cancer research. One grant has been awarded to a multi-institutional team including School of Engineering professor Bruno Correia and School of Life Sciences Professor Nicolas Thomä.

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Education

New MAKE project aims to make quantum computing more accessible

New MAKE project aims to make quantum computing more accessible

Students from the EPFL Master’s in Quantum Science and Engineering are starting a new MAKE project in fall 2026 with the ambitious aim to build affordable and accessible educational quantum devices.

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Innovation

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

“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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