• School of Engineering

    Drazen Dujic and Jamie Paik win Nagamori Awards

    At a ceremony held on September 6th, School of Engineering professors Drazen Dujic and Jamie Paik both received awards from the Nagamori Foundation for their contributions to research on motor technology and related fields.

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  • School of Engineering

    New transistor brings high voltage to microchip scale

    By harnessing the properties of gallium nitride, EPFL engineers have built a tiny transistor that can handle very high voltage with minimal energy loss, a key requirement for AI data centers, electric vehicles, and solar power systems.

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  • School of Engineering

    Students invent devices that businesses haven't yet conjured up

    In the Assistive Technology Challenge (ATC), EPFL master’s students carry out MAKE projects to develop practical systems for the disabled.

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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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  • 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

    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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10 Adjunct Professors
11 Senior Scientists
25 ERC grants

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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Wireless Hybrid Integrated Systems for Body-Machine Interface 30.9.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Prof Mehdi Kiani, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Interpretable representation learning for biological data: from small molecules to genes 2.10.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Maria BOULOUGOURI Place ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IEM Seminar: Wetware Computing: Towards Biological Neural Networks for Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence 7.10.2026 – 09:15 > 10:00 Speaker Dr. Fred Jordan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FinalSpark, and CEO and Co-Founder of AlpVision Place CM 1 2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Bio-Inspired Self-Assembled Chiral Architecture for Optics and Plasmonics 7.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Prof Silvia Vignolini, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI)  and Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Beyond Electrons: Bioiontronics from Cells to Humans 28.10.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Prof Takeo Miyake, Graduate school of information, production and system, and Department of Electronic and Physical Systems, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Foundation Models for Spoken Language Understanding: Capability, Efficiency, and Application 11.12.2026 – 14:30 > 00:00 Speaker Mutian HE Place IDIAP Martigny; Rue Marconi 19; 1920 Martigny Category Thesis defenses Read more

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