Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of two federal technical universities in Switzerland. It has three missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level. EPFL, in its location on the shores of Lake Geneva, brings together a campus of more than 10,000 people with more than 250 laboratories and research groups. With 120 nationalities represented on campus and more than 50% of the professors coming from abroad, the School is one of the world’s most cosmopolitan universities. The EPFL School of Engineering (STI) consists of more than 50 laboratories organised within 5 institutes at the intersection of mechanics, electrical engineering, micro-technology, and materials science. The MARVEL National Centre on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials, directed by Prof. Marzari, is a 12-year effort involving approximately 30 groups, started in 2014, and funded by the Swiss National Science