Research domains

Explore below the fields of research in which EPFL is active, through its centers, platforms, hubs and institutes.

Centers

Centers create networks, collaborations and synergies between researchers and students around state-of-the-art scientific subjects. They build bridges between researchers at EPFL and other academic institutions, foster innovation and contribute to advance and share knowledge on specific themes within and beyond the academic world.

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Center for Applied Ecotoxicology (CENTRE ECOTOX)

CLIMACT

Energy Center (CEN)

EPFL Space center (eSpace)

Limnology Center (LIMNC)

Swiss Competence Center of Electrical Infrastructure (SCCER-FURIES)

Swiss Polar Institute (SPI)

EPFL Center for Imaging (IMAGING)

Imaging initiative

Bernoulli Center (CIB)

Competence Centre for Materials Science and Technology (CCMX)

European Centre of Atomistic and Molecular Computations (CECAM)

Max Planck-EPFL Centre for Molecular Nanosciences and Technology (CMNT)

NCCR Marvel

Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)

Brain Mind Institute (BMI)

Center for Artificial Muscles (CAM)

Center for Neuroprosthetics (CNP)

Center for Personalized Health (CPH)

lntegrative Food and Nutrition Center (IFNC)

Projet Bluebrain (BBP)

Projet Human Brain (HBP)

Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)

EcoCloud Center (ECOCLOUD)

EPFL Hub for Machine Learning Theory and Methodology with Applications (ML)

Integrated Systems Center (CENTRE-SI)

Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)

Scala Center (SCALA)

Facilities

Facilities provide access to cutting-edge technical infrastructure and know-how expertise to EPFL scientists and students to perform their research, making optimal use of resources. They are also a place where knowledge and knowhow is shared and where EPFL contributes to advance the state of the art in the techniques covered by the platform.

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Material

Molecular and Hybrid Materials Characterization Center

X-Ray Diffraction and Surface Analytics Facility

Molecule / Protein (analysis and production)

Bertarelli Foundation Gene Therapy Platform

Biomolecular Screening Facility

Central Environmental Laboratory

Gene Expression Core Facility

Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS)

Mass Spectrometry Facility

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

Proteomics Core Facility

Protein Production and Structure Core Facility

Cell

Flow Cytometry Core Facility

Health 2030 Genome Center

Histology Core Facility

Organism

Center of PhenoGenomics

Phenotyping Unit

Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)

Mechanical

IPHYS Mechanical Workshop

Mechanical and Electronic Workshops

Plateforme Ateliers Techniques de la Faculté STI pour la construction et la réalisation de prototypes

Plateforme technique ENAC

Student Kreativity and Innovation Laboratory – SKIL

Bio – Micro – Nano

Bioengineering & Technology platform

Center of MicroNanoTechnology (CMI)

Micro-Manufacturing Science and Engineering Center M2C

Clean Rooms Facilities of IPHYS

Biological Electron Microscopy Facility

BioImaging and Optics Core Platform

CIBM Biomedical imaging research centre

Dubochet Center for Imaging

ENAC Interdisciplinary Platform for X-ray micro-tomography (PIXE)

Interdisciplinary Center for Electron Microscopy (CIME)

IC Cluster computing resources and services

Scientific IT and Application Support (SCITAS)

STI-IT computing resources and services

Institutes

EPFL institutes gather scientists around defined research themes, sometimes specific to a single faculty, sometimes more transversal for the interfaculty or inter-institutional institutes. Here they are listed in alphabetical order.