EPFL Valais Wallis

With its 16 laboratories active in the key areas of energy, environment and health, managed by researchers and doctoral students from 40 nationalities, the Valais campus, solidly integrated into the Energypolis project, plays a full role in promoting research and innovation in the heart of the Alps.

Pole of Excellence at the foot of the peaks

The EPFL Valais Wallis campus is mainly dedicated to scientific research and innovation in the fields of energy, health and the environment and brings together researchers from four faculties. EPFL and the Valais State Council have also signed an agreement in principle to create a national research, innovation and training pole around the green energy transition.

Deux personnes, derrière une vitre, travaillant sur un ordinateur au Energypolis Sion, Valais-Walis

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The new building houses the Alpine and Polar Environmental Research Centre. © Olivier Maire

EPFL plans new research center in Valais on the energy transition

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Ten years after signing the agreement to open its Valais Wallis campus in Sion, today EPFL opened a new building on the campus: Alpole, which will serve as a research center on alpine and polar environments. EPFL also took the opportunity to unveil plans to create another research center in Sion – one focused on the energy transition – and has obtained preliminary approval from the Valais cantonal government.

Professor Kumar Agrawal has been promoted to Associate Professor

09.12.22NewsEPFL

At its meetings of 7-8 December 2022, the ETH Board promoted Prof. Kumar Agrawal to Associate Professor at the Faculty of Basic Sciences (SB).

Appointment of two professors at ENAC

23.09.22NewsEPFL community

Professor Martin Ackermann, currently Full Professor at ETH Zurich, is additionally appointed as Full Professor of Microbial Systems Ecology in the ENAC School. Professor Jérôme Chappellaz, currently Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, will join the ENAC School as Full Professor of Environmental Engineering (Environmental Observation under Extreme Conditions), in Sion.

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EPFL Valais Wallis
Route des Ronquos 86
1951 Sion
SWITZERLAND
Tél. +41 21 695 82 00

Operational Director EPFL Valais Wallis
Vincent Hiroz

Deputy to the Operational Director EPFL Valais Wallis
Rachel Gay

Executive Assistant to the Operational Director
Jennifer Brady

EESS talk on "Aerosol and health in the urbansphere"

Abstract: Air pollution is the biggest environmental problem today, killing more than 7 million persons every year. The polluted air we breathe contains high levels of aerosols or particulate matter (PM), especially in…

30-05-202330-05-2023

With: Dr. Imad El Haddad, Research Laboratory Head, Group Head Molecular Cluster and particle Processes, Paul Scherrer Institute
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Info session – CAS in Value Chain Data Technologies

31-05-202331-05-2023

With: – Elaine Moran, SRVC Executive Director – Prof. Dimitris Kiritsis, SRVC Academic Director – Prof. David Atienza, EPFL – Alvaro Amo, Alumni
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wvd-GsrDgqHdKaMCQsPdc_fm6_M8px7YUb
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Prof. Ruaraidh McIntosh : Balancing Sustainability with Activity in Polymerisation Catalysis

16-06-202316-06-2023

With: Prof. Ruaraidh McIntosh, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Place and room: Tseuzier
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84209090880
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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