• School of Engineering

    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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  • School of Engineering

    EPFL launches cloud access to real quantum computers

    Through a collaboration between the EPFL Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE) and SCITAS, EPFL has become the first Swiss academic institution to establish a virtual platform offering advanced quantum computing capabilities to its researchers.

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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

    “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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  • 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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116 Professors
3116 Bachelor and Master Students
802 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 Advanced manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Bio-Inspired Technology Bio-Inspired Technology Energy Science and Research Energy Science and Research Health Science & Technology Health Science & Technology Imaging Science Imaging Science Nanotechnology Nanotechnology Quantum Science & Technology Quantum Science & Technology Robotics Robotics Soft Materials Soft Materials Sustainability Sustainability

Upcoming Events

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Workshop series “Responsible AI skills for education” 4.6.2026 – 13:00 > 14:00 Speaker Center for Digital Education (CEDE) Place On Campus Category Internal trainings Read more
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Choose Your Character: A Campaign for More Effective Studying 1.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Devant l'entrée de la Bibliothèque Category Miscellaneous Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI for Health series – Prof. Danny Z. Chen 5.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Prof. Danny Z. Chen Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Cryogenic Thermometry Based on Superconducting Microwave Resonators 5.6.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker André CHATEL Place CM 1 4 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Three-factor rules: from reward to novelty and surprise 8.6.2026 – 09:00 > 10:00 Speaker Wulfram Gerstner <wulfram.gerstner@epfl.ch> Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EEG Research Day 2026 8.6.2026 – 09:00 > 18:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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From motion to interaction: integration of elementary visual cues in zebrafish social behavior 8.6.2026 – 10:30 > 11:30 Speaker Prof. Johannes Larsch <johannes.larsch@unil.ch>  Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Circuit-based mechanisms for low-power computation in the rodent visual cortex 8.6.2026 – 11:30 > 12:30 Speaker Prof. Remi Monasson <remi.monasson@phys.ens.psl.eu>  Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Summer School in Image Analysis 8.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Palace de Caux, Montreux Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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From instability to efficiency: sensorimotor strategies for locomotion in fish 9.6.2026 – 09:00 > 10:00 Speaker Prof. Georges Debregeas Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Workshop series “Responsible AI skills for education” 9.6.2026 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker Center for Digital Education (CEDE) Place On Campus Category Internal trainings Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals series – Dr. Marc Lelarge 9.6.2026 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker Dr. Marc Lelarge Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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From systematic interneuron perturbations to connectome-constrained dynamics 9.6.2026 – 11:30 > 12:30 Speaker Alisa Gross <alice.gross@epfl.ch> Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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lunch&LEARN: Learning with AI: Designing AI Tutors that foster learning in robotics and CS courses 9.6.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Jérôme Brender Place ME B1 10 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Meets RNA Biology Mini-Symposium 9.6.2026 – 15:15 > 17:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MRI Research Day 2026 10.6.2026 – 09:00 > 18:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Unveiling Temporal Organization in Behavior and Neural Circuit Dynamics 10.6.2026 – 10:30 > 11:30 Speaker Prof. Georges Debregeas          Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Be Seen and Heard – Seminar and Workshop 10.6.2026 – 12:00 > 17:15 Speaker BIOP & SV Communications Teams Place AI 1153 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals series – Prof. Joseph Campbell 10.6.2026 – 14:30 > 15:30 Speaker Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Markovian analysis of Zebrafish swimming 10.6.2026 – 14:30 > 15:30 Speaker Prof. Mattéo Dommanget-Kott <matteo.dommanget-kott@sorbonne-universite.fr>  Place GA 3 21 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Introduction of Kawada Robotics and its Humanoid robots 12.6.2026 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker Yuichiro Kawasumi Deputy Manager in charge of Humanoid Robot Kawada Technologies, Inc. Core platform Laboratory   Place ME A3 31 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Solvent-coupled deformation in polymers near free surfaces 12.6.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Chenzhuo LI Place MED 0 1618 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Self-regulating nanostructuring of transparent materials via femtosecond laser irradiation 12.6.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Ernesto GRIBAUDO Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Data-Driven Robust Controller Synthesis Framework using Non-Parametric Integral Quadratic Constraints 12.6.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Vaibhav GUPTA Place CM 1 120 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Nonreciprocity and High-Frequency Dynamics in Curved and Chiral Superconducting and Ferromagnetic Nanostructures 12.6.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Axel Johan Marie DEENEN Place CM 1 105 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Hybrid silicon-organic integrated photonic circuits for broadband terahertz field-resolved detection 12.6.2026 – 18:00 > 00:00 Speaker Francesco BERTOT Place INJ 218 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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EPFL Photonics chapter Summer Hike 2026 14.6.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Cultural events 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Imaging Seminar: Mapping cellular function with 3D single-molecule tracking and super-resolution microscopy 25.6.2026 – 17:00 > 18:00 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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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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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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Call for projects CROSS 2027 18.3.2026 – 00:00 > 23:59 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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Registration deadline: CREApoly – Collective Expressions 18.5.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker EPFL staff and doctoral students Place Foyer SG Category Exhibitions 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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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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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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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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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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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

Research

Gregor Jotzu named CIFAR Global Scholar

Gregor Jotzu named CIFAR Global Scholar

School of Engineering professor Gregor Jotzu is one of 15 early-career researchers named CIFAR Global Scholars for 2026-2028.

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Education

Saving educational robots from the trash

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.

Education
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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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