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2025 EDEE Thesis Awards & Distinctions

This year, Yuqing Ren and Elias Le Boudec have both been selected to received Electrical Engineering Doctoral program (EDEE) Thesis Awards. EDEE Thesis Distinctions have also been awarded to Anshul Gupta, Ali Momeni, Thomas Michaelsen Pethick, and Wenjie Xu.

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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
A pill that prints

EPFL researchers have demonstrated the first pill-sized bioprinter that can be swallowed and guided within the gastrointestinal tract, where it directly deposits bio-ink over damaged tissues to support repair.

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“Discussing a problem is the first step towards finding a solution”

Jürgen Brugger, a professor of microengineering, is the winner of this year’s EPFL Award for Best Teaching. His approach shows students that discussion and group work can be highly effective for learning new skills.

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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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Stéphanie Lacour to give inaugural lecture at the Collège de France

Stéphanie Lacour, the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology in EPFL’s School of Engineering and head of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, will deliver her inaugural lecture on neurotechnology at the Collège de France on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

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37 Professors

10 Adjunct Professors

11 Senior Scientists

25 ERC grants

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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Micro-Origami Meets Batteries: Pushing Energy Storage Boundary below 1 mm2 5.11.2025 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Dr Minshen Zhu, TU Chemnitz, Germany Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more

IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Is the end of CMOS Image Sensor R&D coming near ? 25.11.2025 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Albert J.P. Theuwissen, Harvest Imaging, Bree, Belgium Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more

Advancing Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Deep Learning Systems in Dynamic Environments 25.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Guillaume Marc Georges VRAY Place: ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more

IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Shrink Polymer Cancer Sensors: Manufacturing from Micro to Nano 17.11.2025 – 13:15 > 14:00 Speaker: Dr. Tianhong Cui, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota, USA Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more

SPAD Image Sensors with Embedded Intelligence 11.11.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Yang LIN Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more

Lancement de l’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

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

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

IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Controlled Charge Flow in Nanoconfined Iontronics 16.12.2025 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Di Wei, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems (BINN), China Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more

School of Engineering

This year, Yuqing Ren and Elias Le Boudec have both been selected to received Electrical Engineering Doctoral program (EDEE) Thesis Awards. EDEE Thesis Distinctions have also been awarded to Anshul Gupta, Ali Momeni, Thomas Michaelsen Pethick, and Wenjie Xu.

School of Engineering

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.

School of Engineering

EPFL researchers have demonstrated the first pill-sized bioprinter that can be swallowed and guided within the gastrointestinal tract, where it directly deposits bio-ink over damaged tissues to support repair.

School of Engineering

Jürgen Brugger, a professor of microengineering, is the winner of this year’s EPFL Award for Best Teaching. His approach shows students that discussion and group work can be highly effective for learning new skills.

School of Engineering

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Stéphanie Lacour, the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology in EPFL’s School of Engineering and head of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, will deliver her inaugural lecture on neurotechnology at the Collège de France on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

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