Lausanne is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city.
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland" and inspired by the École Centrale Paris, EPFL has placed itself as a leading research university specializing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and natural sciences.
The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzerland, and one of the oldest universities in the world to be in continuous operation. As of fall 2017, about 15,000 students and 3,300 employees studied and worked at the university. Approximately 1,500 international students attend the university, which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with other universities.
Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformed theologian, evangelist and Protestant reformer.
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences, formerly known as the Watson School of Biological Sciences (WSBS) until 2020, is a biological sciences graduate school at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The school was opened in 1999 and resides on the Laboratory campus in Cold Spring Harbor, New York on Long Island.
Lavaux is a region in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, in the district of Lavaux-Oron. Lavaux consists of 830 hectares of terraced vineyards that stretch for about 30 km along the south-facing northern shores of Lake Geneva.
Palais de Beaulieu is the historical and emblematic building of the Lausanne convention and exhibition center, located in Lausanne, in the Vaud Canton, Switzerland. The Palais is a convention centre that welcomes mainly conventions and events.
The Lausanne University Hospital, in Lausanne, is one of the five university hospitals in Switzerland.
The Lausanne campus or Dorigny university campus is a large area in Switzerland where the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and several other institutions are located. It is in Dorigny, towards the west of Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva. The site is about 2.2 kilometres wide and 31,000 people study and work there.
Solange Ghernaouti is a professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and an international expert on cybersecurity and cyberdefence. She regularly collaborates with various United Nations, European and government institutions as well as with private corporations.
Louis Maillard was a French-born Swiss astronomer and professor of astronomy and mathematical sciences.
Simone Chapuis-Bischof was a Swiss activist. She was an organizer for women's suffrage in Switzerland. She was also the head of the Association Suisse Pour les Droits de la Femme, and the president of the journal, Femmes Suisses.
Jacques Dubochet is a retired Swiss biophysicist. He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Astrid Epiney, born Wander is a German-Swiss jurist. She is professor of international law, European law and Swiss public law at the University of Fribourg, and became its first female rector in 2015.
Suzette Sandoz, born Suzette Monod in Lausanne on 12 January 1942, is a professor of law and a Swiss political figure and member of the Liberal Party of Switzerland.
Sophie D’Amours is an engineer and a professor at Université Laval. On April 26, 2017, she was elected the 26th rector of Université Laval, the first woman to hold the position.
Doris Jakubec-Vodoz is a francophone Swiss professor of Suisse romande literature. She served between 1981 and 2003 as director of the "Centre des littératures en Suisse romande" at the University of Lausanne. She also has been or is a visiting professor at the Universities of Montréal, Stanford and Albuquerque, and has had international university lectureships at Tel Aviv and Peking Universities.
Géraldine Savary is a journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), former member of the National Council and the Council of States and the current director of the Federal Commission of the Swiss postal services, PostCom.
Patricia Roux is a Swiss sociologist and feminist who taught at the Université de Lausanne for over 20 years. Now retired, she became specifically interested in women's studies in 1996. In September 2000, the university appointed her to the first post of Professor of Gender Studies in Switzerland. Since 2001, together with Christine Delphy, she has headed the editorial board of the academic journal of feminism Nouvelles Questions Féministes. Roux continues to publish widely, taking an active interest in the status of women in Switzerland and beyond. .
Luciana Vaccaro, is an Italian-Swiss physicist. She has held the position of rector of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland since October 2013.
