Life molecules, dream molecules

Science of creation, base of all industries, Chemistry is the central discipline of modern research, at the crossroads of all natural sciences.

To understand a biological mechanism, to dream and then produce a new medicine, to create a revolutionary material, to invent a clean and safe manufacturing process, to conceive new sources of energy for the future of human kind, to unveil the equilibria governing our environment for protecting it : These are some of the tasks devoted to today’s chemists and chemical engineers.

The Section of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and its professors have the mission to train future scientists and engineers to the careers of research, analysis and technical development in the fields of molecular sciences, chemical engineering and biotechnology.

This section of EPFL is currently the largest school of chemistry in Switzerland by the yearly number of its graduates. It proposes a very broad training in molecular sciences, leading to a BS degree, and then two directions of specialization leading either to a MS in molecular and biologic chemistry, or to a MS in chemical and biochemical engineering.

Students carrying a MS degree or an equivalent title can join our doctoral School to be actively involved in scientific research and finally obtain a PhD in sciences or a PhD in technical sciences.