For more than one and a half centuries, thousands of engineers, architects and scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), have actively contributed to technological development in Switzerland.
Today, there are more than 6'200 students, including more than 1’200 doctoral candidates. In addition, 265 professors and about 3'600 scientific, technical and administrative staff are committed to 5 teaching and research faculties :
- Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
- Computer and Communication Sciences
- Basic Sciences
- Engineering Sciences and Techniques
- Life Sciences.
To fulfill its education and research goals, and create constant opportunities for development in the economy, EPFL relies on its expertise in the following interdisciplinary areas : sustainable development, biomedical engineering, nanosciences and nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, numerical simulation, communication systems and new materials.
Life sciences at EPFL are being given a major push thanks to the undertaking of an important project in functional genomics in collaboration with industrial and academic partners. Today, research gravitates around three major poles of excellence: neurosciences, developmental biology and biotechnology.
Engineering sciences play an essential role in the development of life sciences, in particular in genomics. Thanks to its reputation for implementing transdisciplinary research programs, EPFL can rely on a network of competencies to obtain first class results in the life sciences. The development of new tools for imaging, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and for micro- and nano-technologies will expand the frontiers of observation, characterization and manipulation of living matter at biomolecular and cellular levels.