Category: STI
Switzerland, the Swiss, and Swiss Engineering
Hi there, my name is Jonathan, originally from Indonesia but I am an undergraduate in Singapore. As a student, my scientific interest lies in the field of metallurgy. While my home university has an excellent materials department, there is little focus on metallurgical sciences. When the opportunity to apply for ERIP came across, I was (…)
A Swiss dream
Spending the 2022 summer at EPFL was by far one of the most exciting experiences of my entire undergraduate career. I came across EPFL’s ERIP program and in particular the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement (LPQM) through an advertisement on a website at my home university. I looked through some papers of the PI (…)
EPFL in Geneva
Hey reader! If you are here I imagine you are either thinking about doing a summer internship at EPFL, or have done one and want to make sure that your blog post is still the best one (else, what are you doing here?). For the first category: to avoid wasting your time, I will immediately (…)
Recherche et randonnées
Over the summer, I undertook 3 months of research at the Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technologies. My project explored photoluminescence in ultra-thin, monocrystalline, gold flakes. The lab I was working with was incredibly welcoming and friendly. I was actively encouraged to ask questions and also enjoyed a lab hiking trip. The first few weeks (…)
EPFL and Switzerland – A place to work and live
I am Jakub Lála, studying at Imperial College London, but originally from Prague, Czech Republic. I worked in the Computational Sciences and Modelling Lab with Professor Michele Ceriotti. Below, I am giving you some of the most influential points I learned this summer, hoping to persuade you that EPFL is a great place to spend (…)
Ode to a Swiss summer
When I found out that I had the opportunity to come perform research at EPFL this summer, it seemed like a miracle. After so long without traveling, the hopes and expectations I had for my summer were outrageously high. Somehow, it turned it out even better than I could have imagined. I spent 3 months (…)
Work hard, hike harder
Three months have never flown by so quickly. From the first day I arrived, I began my busy summer of exploration, work, and adjustment to life in Switzerland, supported all along the way by my fellow interns and boxed ice coffee from Migros. Let’s start with my lab. I interned this summer in the Medical (…)
The hills are alive
I have dreamed of visiting Switzerland since I discovered that The Sound of Music was filmed there in sixth grade. The endless, rolling hills, the majestic snow-capped peaks–even as an 11-year old, I couldn’t conceive there to be any other place in the world quite as stunning. By the time I received my internship acceptance letter nine (…)
Research and raclette: a superb Swiss summer
Between May and August of 2016, I was a part of the EPFL Research Internship (RI) Program. At the time, I had just finished the third year of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. I had never been to Europe before, so I was both excited and nervous for the opportunity to work (…)
What an amazing country
This summer, I went to EPFL as a Research Intern. And no surprise, it has been one of my best summers ever! Working at EPFL has been a great experience. I worked at Automatic Control Lab under Mechanical Engineering Department. As a Mechatronics student, it has been a extremely valuable experience to me because the (…)