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École spéciale de Lausanne, 1857 Louis Rivier, founding member of École spéciale de Lausanne. The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name École spéciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Louis Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
PhD students and postdocs in the academic track strive for international collaboration as they partner with two European academic institutions in their research. These candidates are supervised by two advisors from different European countries: one of the advisors must be an ELLIS fellow/scholar or unit faculty; the other advisor should be an ...
Private universities in Canada are independent postsecondary institutions that have been granted the authority to confer academic degrees from a provincial authority. The oldest private universities in Canada operated as seminaries or as religiously-affiliated institutions, although several secular for-profit and not-for-profit private universities were established in Canada during the late ...
Approximately 1,500 international students attend the university (120 nationalities), which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with other universities. Together with the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) the university forms a vast campus at the shores of Lake Geneva .
Universities in Canada are established and operate under provincial and territorial government charters or are directed by First Nations bands [a] or by federal legislation. [b] Most public universities in the country are members of Universities Canada, a non-profit organization. The title "university" is protected under federal regulation.
In 2008, the research groups of the Institute were integrated into the EPFL – School of Life Sciences and in 2009, Douglas Hanahan was nominated director of the Institute. The ISREC Foundation (President Yves J. Paternot) continues to seek and to provide resources to support projects having a broad potential of diagnostic or therapeutic ...
Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the IMD Business School.He is Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU, [2] which he founded in June 2007, [3] [4] and was President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) from 2014 to 2018.
Babak Falsafi. Babak Falsafi is a Swiss computer scientist specializing in computer architecture and digital platform design. He is the founding director of EcoCloud at EPFL, an industrial/academic consortium investigating efficient and intelligent data-centric technologies.