EPFL Photonics Chapter

We are the EPFL student organization gathering all the photonics enthusiasts on campus and promoting optical science and technology. Our mission is to provide exciting networking, educational and outreach activities for the EPFL community. If you are interested or already passionate about photonics, come attend our events!

EPC is a joint OPTICA and SPIE Student Chapter.

Upcoming Events

Probing Ultrafast Electron Motion with Attosecond X-ray Free Electron Lasers

The ultrafast motion of electrons is a frontier problem for photochemical processes, as electron motion is a key ingredient of all chemical reactions. Electronic rearrangement is also the means by which light energy is…

23.04.2026 17:1518:30

Speaker: James Cryan, Stanford Univ. / SLAC
Location: CH G1 495 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

NanoFrazor Workshop – Advancing Parallel Nanolithography with Decapede Technology

28.04.2026 09:3016:00

Speaker: Dr. Antoaneta Damyanova, Head of Software, Heidelberg Instruments Nano Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brugger, Microsystems Laboratory 1 (LMIS1), EPFL Eliott Clerc, R&D Engineer, Heidelberg Instruments Nano More to come
Location: BM 1130 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Past Events

SPIN DEFECTS IN HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE FOR SENSING APPLICATIONS

2D materials have emerged over the last decade as the new playground for quantum photonics devices. Among them, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an interesting candidate, mainly because of its crystallographic…

07.04.2026 14:0015:00

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Dyakonov holds the Chair of Experimental Physics on the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany since 2004. He studied physics at the University of Leningrad and received his diploma degree in 1986. Since 1990, he has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Bayreuth (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium) and Linz (Austria). He finished his habilitation in experimental physics at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) in 2001. In 2007-2009 he was the Vice-dean and in 2013-2015 the Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Würzburg. Dyakonov’s main research interests are in the fields of semiconductor spectroscopy, thin-film organic and hybrid photovoltaics, organic light-emitting diodes and sensors. He published ca. 230 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has h-index of 84.
Location: BM 5202
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

POB Seminar – Silicon subwavelength devices for efficient Brillouin scattering Join EPC at General Assembly

19.02.2026 18:1520:15

Speaker: Paula Nuño Ruano
Location: DIA 003
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public