EPFL - ETHZ Summer schools | Register now
5 EPFL – ETH Zürich summer schools will take place in 2024 between May and September. We encourage you to secure your place as soon as possible.
Synchrotron Diffraction and Scattering for Advanced Materials Research | May 13 - 17, 2024 | Grenoble, France
Ecohydrology: From Field Data to Process Modeling | June 18 - 21, 2024 | Hönggerberg & Valais
Beyond the Lab: Addressing Global Challenges as Scientists | June 25 - 28, 2024 | Beatenberg (BE)
Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning | July 29 - 31, 2024 | EPFL Lausanne (VD)
Experimental Methods in Ultrafast Science | August 26 -30, 2024 | ETH Hönggerberg campus in Zürich (ZH) & EPFL campus in Lausanne (VD)
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Transversal Skills Course | Create-Protect-Innovate: Bringing ideas to market
The course "Create – Protect – Innovate: Bringing ideas to market" (ENG-645) is an online course developed by the European Patent Office and is available to EPFL PhD candidates giving 2 ECTS. It will teach you how to protect inventions and bring them to market and provide you with valuable insights into the world of innovation. It consists of two parts (entry and advanced level), each containing five self-paced modules. The course offers you unique opportunities to follow inventors' real-life stories, understand why and how they patent their inventions and learn how intellectual property rights (IPRs) can be integrated into business strategies.
Dates of the course: from April 2 to June 18 2024
Registration deadline: March 20, 2024
Register here with the access code: AU01-2024_M9n!
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Transversal Skills Course | Sustainability in my research
A new EDOC transversal skills course entitled "Sustainability in my research" was approved at the last meeting of the Doctoral Commission (Cdoct). The course objective is to foster sustainability integration in present and future research of PhD candidates.
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Develop leadership skills to act effectively on sustainability-related challenges
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Explain key sustainability concepts to a heterogeneous audience
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Apply research practices to sustainability by formulating a research question / project to solve sustainability-related issue and/or identifying and prioritizing actions to make research practices more sustainable
Course language: English | Credits: to be confirmed
Teaching staff: Dr. Jacopo Grazioli, Michka Mélo
More info to come, stay tuned!
Career | Fellowships and awards
2024 Chorafas Awards | Application deadline: March 18, 2024
The purpose of the EPFL Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award is to distinguish innovative and high level research. Two prizes are allocated, each valued at USD 10,000. Six areas are eligible, with particular emphasis on applied research: Life Sciences & Medicine, Physics, Chemistry (including nanotechnology), Mathematics, Informatics/Computer Science, Engineering of Finance & Risk Management. For PhD theses defended or to be defended between 01.06.2023 and 31.12.2024.
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2025 Schmidt Science Fellows | Application deadline: March 21, 2024
Schmidt Science Fellows undertake a 12-24 month postdoctoral placement with a stipend of $110,000 per year in a world-leading laboratory anywhere in the world in a disciplinary pivot from their PhD. This placement begins after a Fellow has successfully defended their thesis between May 15, 2024 and June 30, 2025 in the natural sciences ((Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Physics), computing, engineering or mathematics. Candidates to be Schmidt Science Fellows are expected to have a collaborative spirit, a strong track record of scientific achievement from their PhD studies, combined with a clear intellectual curiosity and desire to drive future discoveries.
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PhD prize in Quantitative Research | Application deadline: March 28, 2024
In collaboration with the EPFL SIAM Student Chapter, G-Research is organizing a PhD prize of up to € 5,000 that will be awarded to doctoral candidates attending their final or penultimate year at EPFL. The applicants should preferably work on one of the following topics: Machine Learning, Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Engineering. However, any application coming from other subjects will be considered. Please note that doctoral candidates must have the permission of their thesis director(s) to apply for the prize in order to be able to share thesis data with a private company.
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Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award | Application deadline: April 12, 2024
The Swiss Micro- and Nanotechnology Network is offering five prizes each of 2’000 CHF for excellent scientific first-author publications in the field of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience published by PhD students in 2023/2024. The prize winners will be introduced on the website of the Swiss Micro- and Nanotechnology Network and the award will be handed over by a representative of the sponsor companies at the Swiss Nanoconvention 2024, which will take place on 4 – 5 June, 2024 at the Congress Center in Basel.
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Doctoral program Directors | Appointments
Prof. Tobias Schneider has been appointed Director of the doctoral program in Mechanics (EDME) for a mandate from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027.
Prof. Thomas Weber has been appointed Director of the doctoral program in Management of Technology (EDMT) for a third mandate from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2027.
We thank you for your commitment and wish you and your colleagues every success in running your program.
Doctoral program Directors | New appointment process
To harmonise practices across EPFL and to clarify the roles of each of the various participants, VPA has revisited the processes for the appointment and re-appointment of directors of institutes, sections and doctoral programs. The changes have been incorporated into the Directive concerning doctoral studies (LEX 2.4.1).
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