De Geus graduated with a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (1978) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of technology), EPFL, Switzerland followed by a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA.
Working at the LAMI of the EPFL with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud, he designed and realised in 1977 the first modern computer mouse, that started the successful Logitech diversification.
The Club Montagne de l'Agepoly (CMA) is an outdoors and mountaineering club at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne.
a complete simulation of the life cycle of Mycoplasma genitalium in 2012; and the Blue Brain project at EPFL (Switzerland), begun in May 2005 to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level.
He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the EPFL and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva.
In total, there are 12 Universities in Switzerland; ten of them are managed by the cantons, while two federal institutes of technology, ETHZ in Zurich and EPFL in Lausanne, are under the responsibility of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.
He also held short-term visiting positions at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1993), University of Bucharest, Romania (1998), University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil (1999), and The Bernoulli Institute (at EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland (2004).
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 Khepera is a small (5.5 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot that was developed at the LAMI laboratory of Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in the mid '90s.
In Lausanne he studied at the Ecole Politechnique Federale (EPFL) a well-resourced university that managed to attract all the top architect of the time as guest professors – from Kenneth Frampton to Rafael Moneo and Alvaro Siza, with Umberto Riva being Luigi’s thesis mentor.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004.
Prof. George Coukos (also director of the Department of Oncology of the CHUV and of the Ludwig Centre for Cancer Research of the University of Lausanne) will be the director of the centre and Prof. Douglas Hanahan (also director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research of the EPFL) will be the vice-director.
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The Swiss Cancer Centre (French: Centre suisse du cancer) of Lausanne is an institute bringing together research groups in oncology from the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the support of the ISREC Foundation.
The term Virtual Rehabilitation was coined in 2002 by Professor Daniel Thalmann of EPFL (Switzerland) and Professor Grigore Burdea of Rutgers University (USA).