• School of Engineering

    Variable-stiffness endoscopes enable treatment in hard-to-reach areas

    Thanks to next-generation endoscope technology developed at EPFL, surgeons can navigate hard-to-reach areas of the human body with extreme precision, enabling new minimally invasive procedures.

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  • School of Engineering

    “The knowledge is there—it takes humans to put it into perspective”

    Christian Lafforgue knows only too well how a professor can influence a student’s academic decisions. He believes that a good teacher is one with a keen sense of humanity. He was named best teacher in the electrical engineering section for 2025.

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  • School of Engineering

    Record efficiency for perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cells

    EPFL and CSEM researchers have achieved a record 30% efficiency for triple-junction solar cells, which combine two thin-film perovskite cells and one silicon cell on a single device. The milestone could advance affordable next-generation solar technologies for space and terrestrial applications.

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  • School of Engineering

    “Look for a medical need, and you'll find your way.”

    EPFL graduate Guillaume Petit-Pierre is the CEO of Artiria Medical, a medtech firm that has developed an ingenious, deflectable guidewire enabling surgeons to easily navigate the sinuous blood vessels in the brain and treat strokes. We caught up with Petit-Pierre, who’s active on many fronts – but rejects the label “hyperactive.”

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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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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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Tremblement – by Séverin Guelpa 10.10.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Séverin Guelpa, artiste (CH, GE) Place Rolex Learning Center (extérieur et intérieur) Category Exhibitions Read more
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FameLab Switzerland 2026 competition 16.2.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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The World at Play : play, create, think 18.3.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Espace Découverte Category Exhibitions 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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CAS Transforming Business with AI & Data Tech [2026] 11.3.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place ODY -1 0021 Category Miscellaneous Read more
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Near-optimal Adaptive Policies for Dynamic Matching Markets 30.3.2026 – 11:15 > 12:00 Speaker Alireza Amanihamedani, PhD candidate in Operations Research at London Business School, United Kingdom  Place ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL BioE Talks SERIES "Mobility-Induced Synchronization and Fluctuation in Developmental Patterns" 30.3.2026 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker Prof. Koichiro Uriu, School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo (JPN) Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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From Pixels to Attention: A Computational Perspective On Gaze Understanding in the Wild 30.3.2026 – 16:30 > 00:00 Speaker Samy TAFASCA Place IDIAP – Martigny Category Thesis defenses Read more
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CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar #56 with Antonia Kaiser 31.3.2026 – 09:30 > 11:00 Speaker Antonia Kaiser, CIBM MRI EPFL MR Imaging Technology Section Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Learning What to Share: Feature Learning for Adversarially Robust Federated Systems 31.3.2026 – 11:15 > 12:00 Speaker Leonardo F. Toso, fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, USA. Place ME C2 405 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Fold, Snap, and Jump: Nature-Inspired Nonlinear Mechanics for Adaptive Matter 31.3.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Mingchao Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Mechanistic study of the jumbo phage killer immune systems and the implications for jumbo phages 31.3.2026 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker Yuping Li, University of Basel, Biozentrum Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Space Center – Seminar series: Exploring the Uncommon for the Common Good – Space Biology, Medicine and Technology 31.3.2026 – 13:00 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. Oliver Ullrich Prof. Dr. Marcel Egli Dr. Cora Thiel Dr. Lorenz Herrmann Place BC 420 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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High-Resolution Magnetic Sector SIMS for Advanced Semiconductor and Materials Science Applications 31.3.2026 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker Dr. Peter Gnauck | Raith Group, Dortmund, Germany Place MXC 315 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Data Organization & Storage Solutions" 31.3.2026 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker EPFL Library Research Data Team Place MED 0 1618 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Swiss AI Initiative – 3rd Call for Large Grants 31.3.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Scaling the Memory Wall: Prof. Prashant Nair of British Columbia and d-Matrix 1.4.2026 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker Prof. Prashant J. Nair Prof. Nair is the lead architect of the 3D-memory architecture at d-Matrix for their upcoming accelerators. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he leads the Systems and Architectures (STAR) Lab, and an Affiliate Fellow of the Quantum Algorithms Institute. His research focuses on memory architectures and systems. Dr. Nair’s recognitions include the 2024 TCCA Young Architect Award (the highest early-career honor in computer architecture), the 2025 DSN Test of Time Award, the HPCA 2023 Best Paper Award, a MICRO 2024 Best Paper nomination, and the HPCA 2025 Distinguished Artifact Award. Over the past decade, he has published more than 40 papers in top-tier venues. Prior to his promotion to Associate Professor, as an Assistant Professor, he was inducted into all three halls of fame of computer architecture: ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA. Place BC 420 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Multi-Objective Management of EdgeAI on Heterogeneous Systems 2.4.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Hossein TAJI Place ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Functional materials for renewable energy storage and conversion – sustainable and scalable materials design for photocatalysts and battery materials 7.4.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Simone Pokrant, Department Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Synapsis Foundation | Research funding on dementia research 8.4.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Surface engineering for phase change heat and mass transfer: controlling nucleation and bubble dynamics 13.4.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Zhengmao Lu, EPFL Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: When Materials Bend the Rules: Buckling Response of Slender Structures Born of Constitutive Nonlinearities 14.4.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Draga Pihler-Puzović, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Challenges in modelling ion channels: simulations meet experiments 15.4.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Contributing to community-driven open-source in the age of agentic AI: my scikit-learn experience 16.4.2026 – 14:00 > 15:00 Speaker Guillaume Lemaître Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon 2026 16.4.2026 – 09:00 > 21:00 Speaker Place Hall SV Category Convention Read more
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EPFL BioE Talks SERIES "Toward Ubiquitous NanoBiosensing: Sustainable Devices Powering the Future of Point-of-Care Diagnostics" 20.4.2026 – 12:15 > 13:15 Speaker Prof. Arben Merkoçi, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain   Place SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Domain walls in multiferroics and multiferroic domain walls 20.4.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Manfred Fiebig, ETHZ Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit 20.4.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place SwissTech Convention Centre Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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FAIR Data Management of Theoretical Spectroscopy and Green’s Function Methods 20.4.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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7T MRI Seminar: Leveraging the potential of UHF scanners for fMRI studies 21.4.2026 – 10:00 > 11:30 Speaker Caroline Le Ster, CEA Neurospin, Paris, France Place CH F1 614 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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AI & Compute – Research Computing Platform (RCP) – Exchange session 22.4.2026 – 14:00 > 15:30 Speaker Research Computing Platform Team Place ELE 117 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Ethics in Research Data Management: Anonymization and Best Practices" 23.4.2026 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker EPFL Library Research Data Team Place GC A3 31 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Probing (ferro)electric fields using pixelated differential phase contrast imaging aided by precession 23.4.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Pierpaolo RANIERI Place ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2026 23.4.2026 – 18:00 > 20:00 Speaker Marc Abraham, Mariska Kret, Marcin Zajenkowski, and Chris McManus Place Forum Rolex Category Public Science Events Read more
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Visitors Talk: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California 24.4.2026 – 13:00 > 14:00 Speaker Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California Place CH F1 614 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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An Artificial Sphincter based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators in the context of Urinary Incontinence 24.4.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Quentin Philippe Mario DE MENECH Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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How to Prepare Successful Grant Proposals: a course for Postdocs 24.4.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Internal trainings Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Polymers for people and planet – from solving problems in the lab to solving problems in the world 27.4.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom, MIT / MacroCycle, USA   Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Full speed… But Where are Women in Formula 1? 27.4.2026 – 18:00 > 21:00 Speaker Place RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium : Instability and breakdown phenomena in vortical flows 28.4.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Thomas Leweke, IRPHE, CNRS, Marseille, France Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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BRIDGE Discovery: 10th call 28.4.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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Imaging Lunch: A Practical Introduction to Machine Learning for Vision Applications 29.4.2026 – 11:00 > 13:00 Speaker Mallory Witwer Place CE 1 711.2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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lunch&LEARN: AI for formative feedback. From effective tools to adoption 30.4.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Fares Fawzi, Machine Learning for Education Laboratory  Place ME A3 31 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Instructive soft biomaterials for tissue response by design: steering events at the biointerface 4.5.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Katharina Maniura, EMPA Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Cryo electron microscopy of vitreous sections revisited for high throughput tomographic imaging of tissue and cells 5.5.2026 – 16:00 > 17:00 Speaker Amélie Leforestier | CNRS, France Place Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Honorary Lecture, Prof. Marco Bakker 5.5.2026 – 17:30 > 19:30 Speaker Prof. Marco Bakker Place SG 1138 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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SNSF Starting Grants 2025 5.5.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place Category Call for proposal Read more
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AI for Clinical and Translational Medicine 6.5.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Jonah COOL, X. Shirley LIU, and Pranav RAJPURKAR Place Auditorium Cesar Roux – CHUV Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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EPFL Space Day 2026 – “From Classroom to Cosmos” 8.5.2026 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker Place RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IMX Colloquium – Ultrafast Electron Microscopy 11.5.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Claus Ropers, Max Planck Göttingen, Germany Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Emergent dynamics of active colloids: chirality, non-reciprocity and memory 11.5.2026 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker Place BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 2/2) 11.5.2026 – 09:00 > 17:00 Speaker Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist Place GC C2 413 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Up to Speed with Zotero" 12.5.2026 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place Category Internal trainings Read more
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Honorary Lecture – Prof. Giovanni De Micheli 12.5.2026 – 18:00 > 21:00 Speaker Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk, Dean of IC School and Prof. Adrian Ionescu, Dean of STI School, Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, Prof. Edouard Bugnion, Vice President for Innovation and Impact Place CO 2 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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IMX Colloquium – The delivery challenges of nanoparticles to solid tumours 18.5.2026 – 13:15 > 14:15 Speaker Prof. Warren Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Place MXF 1 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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MechE Colloquium: Toward a unified variational model of material failure 19.5.2026 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker Prof. Corrado Maurini, ∂’Alembert Institute, Sorbonne University Paris Place MED 0 1418 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Training "Beyond Google: Find scientific information with advanced tools" 21.5.2026 – 09:30 > 11:30 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place Category Internal trainings Read more
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Training "Data/Code Publication" 21.5.2026 – 15:00 > 16:30 Speaker EPFL Library Research Data Team Place MED 0 1618 Category Internal trainings Read more
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Swiss Final of the Competition Ma thèse en 180 secondes (MT180) 21.5.2026 – 18:30 > 20:00 Speaker Finalistes EPFL: Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Camille Lambert, Antoni Gralak Place EPFL Lausanne, Forum Rolex Category Public Science Events Read more
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Training "Reshaping Information Research with AI" 2.6.2026 – 10:00 > 12:00 Speaker EPFL Library Training Team Place GR A3 31 Category Internal trainings 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 [September 2026] 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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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

A 3D printable scaffold to support fast bone growth

A 3D printable scaffold to support fast bone growth

A bone-like composite developed at EPFL, in collaboration with researchers from ETH Zurich, Empa and the University of Fribourg, uses naturally occurring enzymes to accelerate mineralization through an energy-efficient, room-temperature process. The strong, lightweight material shows promise for bone repair applications.

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Education

Students build hands-on skills (and gyroscopes) in machining course

Students build hands-on skills (and gyroscopes) in machining course

A new intensive machining course gives microengineering students the opportunity to develop practical skills using the equipment and expertise of EPFL’s Technical Workshops Platform.

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Innovation

New type of weather radiosonde can find its way back

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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