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GaToroid: revolutionizing the future of cancer treatment?

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Joint CERN-EPFL doctoral research has led to the design of a new machine to deliver cutting edge hadron therapy to treat cancer.

Data centers need to consider their carbon footprint

20.10.20NewsEPFL

Digital technology is running up against its physical limits. One solution is to build more data centers – but that needs to go hand in hand with a reduction in their carbon footprint.

Elections and cyberspace: are democracies in danger?

16.10.20NewsEPFL

EPFL Professor compares digital disinformation to the issue of climate change, asking whether we are past the point of no return to fix the problem.

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Devis Tuia joined EPFL in September and is ENAC’s newest professor. © 2020 A. Goy

“I never imagined I could use math to study nature”

22.10.20EPFL

Devis Tuia, who hails from Mendrisio in Ticino Canton, is a well-traveled man. His career has taken him to Spain, the Netherlands, and now back to Switzerland, where he’s just started a new role as head of the Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory at EPFL’s Valais campus. He discusses how remote sensing, image processing and machine learning can be used to protect the environment.

Sauradeep Majumdar during the FameLab semifinals in Lausanne

Sauradeep Majumdar, winner of FameLab Switzerland 2020

19.10.20EPFL

Sauradeep Majumdar from EPFL won FameLab 2020 Switzerland, a competition held between 10 finalists from EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Universities of Lausanne, Basel and Zurich. He will next represent Switzerland in the International Final. Sauradeep is a PhD Student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (EDCH).

Frédéric Kaplan named director of Digital Humanities Institute

13.10.20EPFL

College of Humanities (CDH) professor Frédéric Kaplan, head of the Laboratory for Digital Humanities (DHLab), has been named director of the CDH’s Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) as of October 1st, 2020.

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