Campus Lectures
Upcoming events
Kim Stanley Robinson, writer
Thursday May 19, 2022 | 6pm | Forum Rolex
Lorraine Daston, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin
Monday May 30, 2022 | 5pm | Forum Rolex and online
Merritt Moore, Ballerina and quantum physicist. She studied at both the University of Oxford and Harvard University
Friday September 30, 2022 | 5pm | Forum Rolex
Past events
Claudia Clopath, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London
Conference held on May 9, 2022 | Forum Rolex
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins and Ryan Panchadsaram, Advisor to the Chairman
Conference held on April 21, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Chelsea Manning, Hardware and security advisor at Nym Technologies
Conference held on March 7, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Sonia Seneviratne, Climate scientist and Professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich
Conference held on March 3, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Carl Zimmer, Author and columnist for the New York Times
Conference held on December 6, 2021 Online
Katie Mack, Astrophysicist, North Carolina State University, USA
Conference held on November 23, 2021 | Online
Frank Wilczek, Physician (Nobel Prize for physics, 2004)
Conference held on November 16, 2021 | Online
Marietje Schaake, President of the Cyber Peace Institute
Conference held on November 10, 2021 | EPFL Campus
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Shoshana Zuboff, Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School Professor Emerita
Conference held on September 27, 2021 | Online
Rob Greenfield, Activist
Conference held on May 19, 2021 | Online
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Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University
Conference held on May 17 2021 | Online
Andre– Andrea Wulf, historian and author
Conference held on March 8, 2021
– Steven Strogatz
Cornell University, New York
Conference held on December 8, 2020
Guest speakers :
– Mariana Mazzucato Economist
– Klaus Hommels, Venture capitalist
Conference held on October 1, 2020 co-organized by digitalswitzerland, EPFL and IMD.
– George Church, Harvard synthetic biologist
– Christian Frei, Swiss movie director
Conference held on September 25, 2020
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– Ada Yonath
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 
Conference held on December 17, 2019.
– Ed Winters
Educator, public speaker and entrepreneur
Conference held on December 16, 2019.
– Giulia Galli
University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
Conference held on November 13, 2019.
– Alessio Figalli
2018 Fields Medal 
Conference held on November 11, 2019.
– Hiroshi Amano
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Conference held on October 14, 2019.
– Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Conference held on October 7, 2019.
– Fiona Watt
King’s College London
Conference held on September 27, 2019.
– Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, philosopher and writer
Conference held on July 10, 2019.
– Richard Baldwin
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement in Geneva
Campus Lecture held on May 15, 2019.
– Klaus von Klitzing
1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
Campus Lecture held on April 15, 2019.
– Saul Perlmutter
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Campus Lecture held on April 8, 2019.
– Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Campus Lecture held on March 6th, 2019.