Vice Presidency for Academic Affairs (VPA)

The VPA is responsible for maintaining EPFL’s high standards of excellence in education and research. It operates through four associate vice presidencies.

About

The Vice Presidency for Academic Affairs (VPA) oversees our activities in our two core missions of education and research.

We grouped these missions under a single vice presidency in order to leverage synergies more effectively among students, researchers, faculty members and staff.

The VPA aims to drive research and technological progress by giving students a solid foundation in the basic sciences and engineering and drawing on best practices in university teaching. We take an integrated approach that combines education and research.

This approach involves supporting innovative projects that harness the knowledge and cross-disciplinary skills at our School. The VPA’s role also includes coordinating the efforts of our various research institutes and R&D centers. All this makes us better equipped to help develop responses to today’s societal challenges.

Organizational structure

Vice President and Provost

Ambrogio Fasoli

I’m really looking forward to working closely with Anna as EPFL’s provost. Together we will help our community achieve excellence in all its academic endeavors – which is the core of our School’s mission. If we’re to overcome the challenges that lie ahead, we will need to innovate in various ways, and this includes by trying out new forms of collaboration. For example, some VPA team members will also work for the office of the president.

Ambrogio Fasoli, Vice President and Provost

Delegate to the Provost for Student Relations

Andreas Osterwalder

Associate Vice Presidencies

Associate Vice Presidency for Education (AVP-E)

Associate Vice President for Education: Nicolas Grandjean

Associate Vice Presidency for Research (AVP-R)

Associate Vice President for Research: Annalisa Buffa

Associate Vice Presidency for Centers and Platforms (AVP-CP)

Associate Vice President for Centers and Platforms: David Atienza

Associate Vice-presidency for Doctoral and Lifelong Education (AVP- DLE)

Associate Vice-president for Doctoral and Lifelong Education: Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Contact

Vice Presidency for Academic Affairs

[email protected]

+41 21 693 33 02

EPFL VPA
CE 3 312 (Centre Est)
Station 1
CH-1015 Lausanne