• School of Engineering

    Christophe Salzmann and Philippe Müllhaupt appointed MER-Es

    The School of Engineering is pleased to announce that Christophe Salzmann and Philippe Müllhaupt have been appointed Senior Scientists in teaching (MER-E).

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  • School of Engineering

    When brain stimulation learns to walk with you

    EPFL and CHUV researchers have developed the first AI-assisted, real-time deep-brain stimulation therapy for walking impairments in Parkinson’s disease.

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  • School of Engineering

    A new window into the hidden world of spin waves

    An international research consortium including EPFL has developed a powerful technique to observe elusive dynamic phenomena inside magnetic materials. The advance could help enable future low-energy computing technologies.

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  • 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 two in the School of Engineering (STI).

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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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802 PhD Students
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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

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Call for projects CROSS 2027 18.3.2026 – 00:00 > 23:59 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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IMX Talks – Interplay of Cooper Quartets, Finite Momentum Pairing, and Josephson Diode Effect in 1T Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 15.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Dr. Pranava Keerthi Sivakumar, Department of Nano-systems from Ions, Spins and Electrons(NISE), Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany Place BM 3241 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Simulation of Complex Electrochemical Systems –From Nuclear Quantum Effects to Constant Potential 15.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:30 Speaker Dr. Jinggang Lan Place PH H2 474 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals series – Emanuel Tewolde – "Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas" 15.6.2026 – 14:30 > 15:30 Speaker Emanuel Tewolde Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Talks – When Nature meets Nanotechnology: Development of novel materials using renewable resources 15.6.2026 – 15:30 > 16:30 Speaker Prof. Shachar Richter, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Place MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Electronic structure reading group – Exact constraint of exchange-correlation 15.6.2026 – 16:00 > 17:30 Speaker Niklas Schmitz Place MA B1 524 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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OpenPulse Community Rollout Workshop: Making Research Software Visible and Valued 16.6.2026 – 09:30 > 13:30 Speaker Place BIO_A 6 201, Biopôle, Lausanne Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Effective Quiz Design (Responsible AI skills for education) 16.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Center for Digital Education Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Cross-Layer Co-Design for Accelerating Large-Scale Search Using NVM-based In-Memory computing 16.6.2026 – 12:00 > 14:00 Speaker Prof. Sharon Hu of Notre Dame University Place BC 420 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Al meets RNA Biology – Mini-Symposium 16.6.2026 – 15:15 > 17:00 Speaker Prof. Kathi Zarnack & Prof. Elena Rivas Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Creativity, Brain & Education Symposium 17.6.2026 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker Place CIBM Seminar Room Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Lunch: Introduction to image visualization with Napari 17.6.2026 – 11:00 > 13:00 Speaker Jules Vanaret Place CE 1 711.2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Dynamics of Laminar Separation Bubbles on Airfoils and Wings 17.6.2026 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker Dr. Serhiy Yarusevych is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is directing the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory focused on multidisciplinary applications of fluid mechanics in engineering, including operation of lifting surfaces at low Reynolds numbers, flows over bluff bodies, free shear flows, flow induced vibrations and noise, and flow control. The associated research involves a combination of experimental, analytical, and numerical tools, with the main emphasis placed on experiments involving particle image velocimetry. His research in Canada was interposed by sabbatical leaves at TU Delft in the Netherlands (2013-2014; 2025-2026) and the University of Bundeswehr Munich in Germany (2019-2020), focusing on collaborative projects in aerodynamics and flow control. Dr. Yarusevych is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Mercator Fellow, and Associate Fellow of AIAA. Since 2018, Dr. Yarusevych has been serving as an Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier. Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI & Compute – Research Computing Platform (RCP) – Exchange session 17.6.2026 – 14:00 > 15:30 Speaker Research Computing Platform Team Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Complex Fluids at Interfaces: Structure, Stability, and Molecular Effects 17.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Workshop series “Responsible AI skills for education” 18.6.2026 – 13:00 > 14:00 Speaker Center for Digital Education (CEDE) Place On Campus Category Internal trainings Read more
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IMX Talks – Electric control and detection of magnetization dynamics in magnetic insulators 19.6.2026 – 13:30 > 14:30 Speaker Mr. Hanchen Wang, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich Place BM 3241 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Integrated Circuits for LiDAR in the Short-wave Infrared Spectrum 19.6.2026 – 14:30 > 00:00 Speaker Halil Kerim YILDIRIM Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Electrochemical deposition of composite materials: unravelling the process-structure-property nexus 19.6.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Ayush KHURANA Place MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Integrated Photonics for Next Generation Technologies (INGEN2026) 21.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Boundary interactions in rotorcraft and fish-inspired vehicles 22.6.2026 – 10:15 > 11:00 Speaker Dan Quinn is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in 2015 from the Hydrodynamics Lab at Princeton University, where he studied the role of flexibility in rays and skates. While a graduate student, Quinn was also a Visiting Fellow at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. For his doctoral work, Professor Quinn was awarded the American Physical Society’s Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics. He went on to be a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, studying the stability characteristics of birds flying in turbulent gusts. In 2017, he joined UVA’s Link Lab, a group of researchers studying cyber-physical systems. Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Dynamic Decisions and Temporal Frictions in On-Demand Mobility 22.6.2026 – 10:30 > 11:30 Speaker Dr Andrés Fielbaum Place GC B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Collective fish swimming dynamics: insights from laboratory experiments 22.6.2026 – 11:00 > 11:45 Speaker Ramiro Godoy-Diana is a CNRS research scientist at the Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes laboratory (PMMH) at ESPCI Paris, France. Physical engineer from the Tec de Monterrey (México, 1994), he holds a Master in Physics from the UNAM (México, 1999) and a PhD in fluid dynamics from École Polytechnique (France, 2004). His experimental fluid dynamics work has included research on ocean wave energy, geophysical fluid dynamics, wake instabilities, transition to turbulence, fluid-structure interaction, and animal and bio-inspired swimming and flying. He co-leads the “Biomimetics and fluid-structure interaction (BIOMIM)” group at PMMH. He was coordinator of the fluid mechanics French-Argentinian International Research Project IRP-IVMF and is member of the Scientific Committee of the IRL IFADyFE. He was also member of the Section 10 (now section 12) of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique in France for the 2016-2020 period. He is the Director of the PMMH laboratory for the 2025-2029 term. Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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At the breaking point: Three-dimensional fracture in soft brittle solids 22.6.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Xinyue WEI Place MED 0 1418 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Theoretical Realisation of Quantum Phenomena In Computational Materials Discovery 22.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Smart Publishing" 23.6.2026 – 10:00 > 12:00 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place MED 0 1418 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Information session – Transforming Business with AI and Data Tech 23.6.2026 – 12:30 > 13:00 Speaker – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director Place Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Vision-Language-Action Models for Self-working Humanoid Robots 24.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang Place ME A3 31 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals series – Dr. Nir Sochen 24.6.2026 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker Prof. Nir Sochen Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Imaging Seminar: Mapping cellular function with 3D single-molecule tracking and super-resolution microscopy 25.6.2026 – 13:30 > 14:30 Speaker Anna-Karin Gustavsson Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Workshop for Postdocs on the Creative Scientific Process 25.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Hierarchical Imaging and Mechanical Characterization of Cortical Bone 26.6.2026 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker Torne TÄNZER Place PSI Category Thesis defenses Read more
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SERI – Leading House MENA | Research Partnership Grants 2026 26.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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IMX Talks – Engineering polymer chain connectivity to access unprecedented functions of soft materials 29.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Prof. Shintaro Nakagawa, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University Place MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MAMCS : Transgressing Boundaries: Erwin Schrödinger and the Challenges of Scientific Biography 29.6.2026 – 15:00 > 18:45 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Pre-ICML 2026 Poster Session 29.6.2026 – 16:30 > 19:00 Speaker Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Investigation of Iron Corrosion in Soil through Multimodal Characterization 30.6.2026 – 11:00 > 00:00 Speaker Ocson Reginald COCEN Place HE-Arc CR, Campus Arc 2, Room 324 Category Thesis defenses 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 30.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Document selection: Toward the Moon 30.4.2026 – 07:00 > 23:45 Speaker Place Espace Découverte Category Exhibitions Read more
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Join CREApoly – An exhibition by and for EPFL staff 18.5.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker EPFL staff and doctoral students Place Foyer SG Category Exhibitions Read more
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Design of Flexure Mechanisms Incorporating Pre- and Post-Buckled Beams for Enhanced Mechanical Functionalities 1.7.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Loïc Benoît TISSOT-DAGUETTE Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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QSE Quantum Seminar: "Fibre-optical analogue of the event horizon: Hawking radiation and backreaction" 2.7.2026 – 12:00 > 13:30 Speaker Ulf Leonhardt Place BS 260 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Multifunctional Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for in vitro Cell Mechanostimulation 3.7.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Simon HOLZER Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IMX Talks – The Geography of Biological Matter: From Cells to Sustainable Material Systems 6.7.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Prof. Blaise Tardy, Khalifa University, UAE Place MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Talks – General route to the design of 3D printable Pickering emulsions 6.7.2026 – 13:00 > 14:00 Speaker Prof. Madivala G. Basavaraj, Centre of Excellence in Soft and Biological Matter (CSBM) IIT Madras, India   Place MXF 312 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Scanning ion-conductance spectroscopy and force microscopy of biomolecules 6.7.2026 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker Helena MILJKOVIC Place SV 1717 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Toward Intelligent Behavior in Macroscopic Active Matter 6.7.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Nanoscale analysis of membrane proteins in native milieu 7.7.2026 – 15:00 > 16:00 Speaker Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine   Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Applicant workshop – CYD Fellowships – 14th call: A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research 7.7.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Internal trainings Read more
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Development of TOPCon-based Solar Cell Architectures : From Single-Junction Silicon Cells to Perovskite-Silicon Tandems 9.7.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Julien HURNI Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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SNSF Postdoc.Mobility call ¦ Career funding 4.8.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Gaznat – EPFL Research Programme – Second Call for proposals 17.8.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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14th Call for Proposals – CYD Fellowships: A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research 19.8.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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ETH Domain Human Health Day 20.8.2026 – 09:30 > 19:00 Speaker Place Forum Rolex Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Idiap Create Challenge (ICC), 15th edition 20.8.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Public Science Events Read more
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Course: Advanced Light Microscopy for Lifes Sciences 24.8.2026 – 08:30 > 17:00 Speaker TBD Place Category Internal trainings Read more
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Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete with LC3 2026_ ENAC Summer Workshop 24.8.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place EPFL Fribourg Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Nanoindentation Course Special Event & Guest Lecture 26.8.2026 – 17:00 > 20:00 Speaker Dr. Xavier Maeder Place BM502 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Multi-scale and multi-purpose simulations of DNA: the importance of data 26.8.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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BioEngineering Day 2026 31.8.2026 – 11:30 > 21:00 Speaker Various speakers Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Summer School: Capitalizing on Uncertainty — Structures, Processes, Mindsets 31.8.2026 – 09:00 > 18:00 Speaker Place GC B3 30 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SNSF: Swiss Quantum Call 2026 1.9.2026 – 00:00 > 17:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Managing Innovation in the Era of Data and AI 2.9.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Swiss-Japan Energy Days 2026 2.9.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Open Science Days 2026 7.9.2026 – 08:30 > 18:00 Speaker Place Unil, Géopolis Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SpectroDynamics 2026: Connecting Computational Spectroscopic Methods Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum 7.9.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Bridging Biomolecular Simulations and Experiments Across Time and Length Scales: from Single Molecules to Entire Organelles 14.9.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Innovate with AI and Tech 5.10.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Miscellaneous Read more
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NovoNordisk Fonden – Challenge Programme 2027 7.10.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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G protein-coupled receptors functional dynamics revealed by experimental and computational structural data 7.10.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Aula Magna, USI Lugano Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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From Data to Dynamics: Machine Learning in Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Simulations 14.10.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Aula Magna, USI Lugano 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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PhD Candidates: Welcome to EPFL! 5.11.2026 – 16:00 > 19:00 Speaker Place RLC E1 240 Category Convention Read more

Research

A ultrafast laser on a chip

A ultrafast laser on a chip

EPFL researchers have built a photonic chip that rivals much larger laboratory lasers, delivers extremely short, high-energy optical pulses, and could reshape technologies like medical diagnostics and optical atomic clocks.

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Education

“First-year students ask the same questions as leading scientists”

“First-year students ask the same questions as leading scientists”

Philippe Müllhaupt, who was named the best teacher in the mechanical engineering Section for 2025, first learned to appreciate teaching thanks to his music theory professor. Although he quickly gave up music, he never lost his enjoyment of sharing knowledge with others.

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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.

Innovation
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