EDBB For PhD Students

Please refer to the PhD timeline as you advance through your studies.

For documents you are submitting to the doctoral school/program, please sign them (in person or electronically) together with your thesis director (plus your co-director and/or mentor when applicable) and email them in pdf format to the EDBB program administrator. She will then present them to the EDBB Program Director to approve before emailing them on to the doctoral school.

As of October 2021, the above procedure applies also to your annual reports. Please kindly email your annual reports to the EDBB administrator  with a brief summary of how you are doing. Please mention in your email if you have any issues you wish to discuss with the EDBB director. A a Zoom meeting can be organized if needed.

• 1st YEAR: All EDBB students enrolled after February 18, 2019 are required to attend 16 talks in the Weekly BioEngineering Colloquia Series within the first year of their PhD studies. Please forward the email from the organizer confirmation of your various attendances to EDBB before passing your candidacy exam.

• 1st YEAR: Please note that taking the EDBB course Responsible Conduct in Biomedical Research (BIO-664) is mandatory for all first-year EDBB PhD Students:

• 3rd YEAR: Each EDBB student should give a presentation in the frame of the monthly IBI-EDBB Mini-Symposium at least once before their private defence, preferably during their 3rd year. See BIOENG-600

According to the EPFL rules and to the PhD job description, each PhD student is required to participate in undergraduate teaching. These teaching duties do not give any graduate credits.