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Civil engineering student Anne-ValĂ©rie Preto used Lausanne’s planned new tram line, illustrated here at the Renens station, as the case study for her master’s project. Alain Herzog/EPFL, 2025

Modeling travel behavior to support Lausanne's future tram

Education

Taking Lausanne’s planned new tram line as a case study, Anne-ValĂ©rie Preto focused her master’s project in civil engineering on improving a computer model that’s used to forecast how people will use public transportation.

LĂ©a Guillotin in front of the former Goutte company buildings in Lausanne, in the SĂ©velin district. 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Promoting reuse can help restore cities' charm

Education

For her EPFL master’s project in architecture, LĂ©a Guillotin outlined a plan for restoring an industrial district in Lausanne while promoting the reuse of construction materials.

For her master’s project, Juliette Salles wanted to project into the unknown future. 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Will corn still be a worthwhile crop in Europe in 2100?

Education

Juliette Salles set out to answer this question for her EPFL master’s project in environmental sciences and engineering. The project was a perfect fit for the recent graduate, who enjoys gleaning insights from data and believes in conducting research with a purpose.

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Clément Cattin is PhD student in architecture at EPFL. 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Sloping sites: allies for denser cities

Research

As part of his current thesis in architecture at EPFL, Clément Cattin is analyzing how to adapt sloping sites to the challenges of sustainable cities. He summarizes the issues in an article published in three French-language dailies.

Senior scientist Jan Wienold with the colored filters used during the experiment. 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Red is shown to create a surprising amount of glare

Research

An EPFL study shows red light, like blue, causes stronger glare than white, challenging the century-old and globally used function that describes how the human eye responds to different light wavelengths. The findings have implications for standards and research, as well as for the comfort of building occupants.

The Gries glacier and dam in 2020. © Andrea Baumer

“In the future, dams will serve a variety of purposes”

Research

An EPFL engineer has illustrated some of the complex ways in which climate change will affect hydropower facilities, taking the Gries dam in Valais Canton as a case study.

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Innovation

Aurélie Grange © 2025 EPFL/DR

“Planting trees is also a way of restoring entire ecosystems”

Innovation

AurĂ©line Grange, who holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering from EPFL, works at the crossroads of technological innovation and purpose-driven entrepreneurship. She is a co-founder of both On a Mission, a nonprofit organization set up in 2019 to fund reforestation projects run by local communities, and Open Forest Protocol, a 2020 startup that has developed open-source, transparent blockchain technology for tracking reforestation projects.

© 2024 EPFL

Medusoil involved in valorizing construction waste project

Innovation

The startup has been awarded a collaborative project by the Service of Economic Promotion and Innovation of Vaud canton 

Dimitrios Terzis,0 Medusoil's cofounder.© EPFL/Alain Herzog

Medusoil secures 5.2 million CHF and continues to expand

Innovation

The ENAC startup, a pioneer in innovative biocement-related technologies, has successfully completed a funding round to expand its activities across Switzerland and Europe. 

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Video | Will corn still be a worthwhile crop in Europe in 2100?

29-10-2025

Master’s project in environmental sciences and engineering – 2025

Video | My bachelor’s degree in civil engineering

23-06-2025

A look back at RaphaĂ«l, Margot, and LĂ©on’s first steps in civil engineering. Footage shot in spring 2024. On the agenda: breaking bars in materials engineering, machine learning, understanding the behavior of clay in soil mechanics, river flow in fluid mechanics, and the behavior of metal structures.

Video | New, sustainable structures installed at three iconic sites in Geneva

13-12-2023

Education project led by the Design Studio on the Conception of Space (ALICE) – 2023

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ENAC Community

Daniel McCurry, Aziza Chaouni and Katrin Beyer. © 2025 EPFL

Appointments of ENAC professors

EPFL community

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has appointed Daniel McCurry as Associate Professor of Water and Wastewater Chemistry and Aziza Chaouni as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Construction. Katrin Beyer, currently Associate Professor, was nominated as Full Professor of Civil Engineering. Congratulations to all!

Professor Leopold Pflug in 1996. © Alain Herzog / EPFL

Tribute to Honorary Professor Leopold Pflug

EPFL community

Leopold Pflug was Professor of Mechanics and Statics in Civil Engineering from 1970 to 2000. He passed away on 30 January 2025.

Alain Nussbaumer © 2024 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“I'd call my teaching style ‘old school-plus'”

EPFL community

Alain Nussbaumer, voted best teacher in the civil engineering section for 2024, could very well have studied mechanical engineering and gone into the aerospace or shipbuilding industry. Because what he’s really excited about are structures of all shapes and sizes.

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