Appointment of EPFL professors

Published:22.09.23 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.

New imaging technique “sees” virus move in unprecedented detail

Published:21.09.23 — EPFL scientists have developed a novel imaging technique to capture rapid protein dynamics. The technique, a microsecond, time-resolved version of cryogenic electron microscopy, allowed them to observe the behavior of a virus in unprecedented detail.

Warming up! 30 years of fusion research at EPFL

Published:21.09.23 — The School opened the Plasma Physics Laboratory – today the Swiss Plasma Center – in 1961 and started up a variable-configuration tokamak (TCV) reactor in 1992. Today, EPFL is a leading research institute in nuclear fusion. Read our longread!

As physical and digital spaces intersect, new architectures emerge

Published:20.09.23 — Opening this Friday, 22 September, the new EPFL Pavilions exhibition Cyber Physical: Architecture in Real Time presents four monumental, dynamic and immersive installations that transform our relationship to physical or digital spaces.

How to mend a broken heart

Published:19.09.23 — EPFL is collaborating with academic and industrial partners to develop a cardiac intervention simulator. This platform is designed to train interventionalists in much the same way as flight simulators are used to train pilots.

Teaching placed front and center on EPFL's Lausanne campus

Published:14.09.23 — The Lausanne campus will soon get 1,500 more lecture hall seats thanks to the construction of a new building and the makeover of the Coupole. The winning design came from Dominique Perrault, whose firm was selected through a parallel bidding process among architects worldwide

Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater

Published:11.09.23 — In a breakthrough for the field of bioelectronics, researchers at EPFL have enhanced the ability of E. coli bacteria to generate electricity. The innovative approach offers a sustainable solution for organic waste processing while outperforming previous state-of-the-art technologies, opening new horizons for versatile microbial electricity production.