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Placed on a 1 CHF coin for scale, EPFL's photonic chip shows how a laser architecture once confined to table-top systems can be shrunk to the millimeter scale. ©2026 EPFL/Zheru Qiu

A ultrafast laser on a chip

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EPFL researchers have built a photonic chip that rivals much larger laboratory lasers, delivers extremely short, high-energy optical pulses, and could reshape technologies like medical diagnostics and optical atomic clocks.

New peptides slip into cells to block hard-to-target proteins

03.06.26NewsResearch

EPFL researchers have developed a type of peptides that can enter cells and block protein interactions considered difficult to target with drugs.

AI brings object-level vision prosthetics closer to reality

02.06.26NewsResearch

EPFL researchers are developing AI models that could one day enable vision prosthetics able to restore meaningful, object-level sight for the blind.

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Christian Theiler, meilleur enseignant 2025 de la Section de physique de l’EPFL © 2026 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“You can’t learn something just by watching videos”

Christian Theiler, winner of the 2025 best teacher award for the physics section, uses equipment, for both his research and teaching, that much of the world can only dream of.

Nobel laureate Konstantin Novoselov as first EPFL Fellow

EPFL has named Professor Konstantin Novoselov as the first-ever EPFL Fellow, inaugurating a new honorary title created to recognize eminent scientific personalities of exceptional international stature.

Mirjana Stojilović, meilleure enseignante 2025 de la Section informatique de l’EPFL - 2023 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“I try to stay as close as possible to my students”

Mirjana Stojilović had to teach in French soon after arriving at EPFL from Serbia. Language proved to be no obstacle for the engineer, who has been named the best teacher in the computer science section for 2025.

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Couverture du numéro 20 du magazine Dimensions. Un enfant sur un tricycle traversant une galaxie © EPFL / Plonk & Replonk

Where is mobility headed?

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The new issue of Dimensions explores mobility: its social and climate challenges, our habits, the changes underway, and the technologies reshaping how we think about and plan our journeys.

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ETH Domain Human Health Day

Bringing the domain together to imagine human health This event will bring together leading academics, platform leaders, and senior decision-makers from across the ETH Domain to explore how interdisciplinary collaboration…

20.08.2026 09:3019:00

Location: Forum Rolex
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

The exoplanet revolution and life in the Universe – Public Lecture & Panel Discussion

25.08.2026 18:3020:15

Speaker: Prof. Didier Queloz, FRS Jacksonian Professorship of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, UK Professor of Physics, ETH-Z, Switzerland
Location: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Promenade des Pourquoi ?

22.07.2026 10:3012:30

Speaker: Olivier Renault, le savambulant de l’EPFL et Floriane Nikles, Les promenades de Floriane – J’explore ma ville
Category: Public Science Events
Target audience: General public

Comment le JWST change notre vision de l'histoire de l'univers

02.07.2026 19:0020:30

Speaker: David Elbaz est un astrophysicien français, directeur de recherche au CEA Paris-Saclay, et rédacteur en chef de la revue Astronomy & Astrophysics, principal journal européen d’astrophysique. Il a également exercé les fonctions de conseiller scientifique auprès de l’Agence spatiale européenne. Il est internationalement reconnu pour ses travaux pionniers sur l’Univers jeune, notamment pour l’obtention de certaines des images astronomiques les plus profondes jamais réalisées, permettant de retracer la formation des galaxies au cours du temps cosmique. Ses contributions ont été distinguées par le Prix Jaffé de l’Académie des sciences (2017) et le Prix Chrétien de l’American Astronomical Society (2000). Classé en 2020 parmi les 1 % de chercheurs les plus cités au monde (Clarivate Analytics), il a été élu membre de l’Academia Europaea en 2019, et est membre actif des sociétés savantes française et européenne en astronomie (SF2A, EAS). Très impliqué dans la médiation scientifique, il conçoit des spectacles originaux mêlant sciences et arts, tels que Dans les étoiles (seul-en-scène joué au théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse à Paris), Magicosmologie, Jonglerie Astrale ou encore La Danse des Galaxies. Il est également auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de vulgarisation, et intervient régulièrement en conférences, documentaires et émissions de radio. Il est co-auteur de la série Web-TV Origines, un conte de la lumière pour la chaîne Arte.
Location: SwissTech Convention Center – Auditorium C
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public