• School of Engineering

    Ultra-broadband photonic chip boosts optical signals

    Scientists at EPFL and IBM Research have developed a compact optical amplifier based on a photonic chip that vastly outperforms traditional optical amplifiers in both bandwidth and efficiency. This breakthrough could reshape data center interconnects, AI accelerators, and high-performance computing.

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  • School of Engineering

    Fifteen PhD students receive STI Teaching Assistant Awards

    Fifteen PhD students have been selected to receive a School of Engineering (STI) Teaching Assistant Award for their outstanding commitment to education in EPFL bachelor and master courses during the fall 2024 semester.

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  • School of Engineering

    Two EPFL engineering professors elected to SATW

    SATW, the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, has announced the appointment of 19 new full members for 2025, two of whom are from EPFL’s School of Engineering (STI).

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  • School of Engineering

    Our top 10 news articles from 2024

    More than just a year, the end of 2024 marks a turning point for EPFL, with the departure of its President Martin Vetterli after 8 years at the helm of the institution. From January 1, 2025, a new team, led by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, will take over for a four-year term. This will be the first time a woman has presided over a Swiss federal ins…

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  • School of Engineering

    New type of weather radiosonde can find its way back

    Some 80% of weather radiosondes – remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts – end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by a microengineering master’s student is set to change that with a new, ultra-lightweight “glidersonde” that can automatically return to where it was launched.

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  • School of Engineering

    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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11 Senior Scientists
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Fiber Optic Sensors for Healthcare: Fundamentals, Applications and Frontiers 25.3.2025 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Paola Saccomandi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Reinforced Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Anisotropic designs for the restoration of facial movements 28.3.2025 – 17:15 > 00:00 Speaker: Stefania Maria Aliki KONSTANTINIDI Place: MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Leveraging intentional impacts in Non-Prehensile manipulation 28.3.2025 – 18:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Harshit KHURANA Place: ME B3 31 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Modulation and routing of nonlinear optical signals with metasurfaces above GHz rates 8.4.2025 – 13:15 > 14:00 Speaker: Prof. Michele Celebrano, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Bio-inspired design of Integrated Mesh Electronics, Transistor Probe and Micro-Power Units for Multifunctional Physiological Interrogation and Sustainable Operation 15.4.2025 – 13:15 > 14:00 Speaker: Prof. Yunlong Zhao, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more

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