Address

Prof. Aude Billard

LASA Laboratory

EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

EPFL-STI-I2S-LASA, Station 9

CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

Secretary: Francine Bordelais

Building ME A, 3rd floor (click here for an interactive map)

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How to find EPFL

By plane

Visitors planning to arrive by plane will have to land at Geneva airport (the closest - 40 mins by train or car to Lausanne), Zurich (the largest), or Basel (B?e in French), and from there proceed to Lausanne either by train or by car (see below). To see the location of the above airports in relation to Lausanne, have a look at a this map of Switzerland. One possible alternative is to land in Paris, France, and take the high-speed TGV train directly to Lausanne (see the train section of this document below).

By train + metro

See the Swiss Railways server for timetable and costs. Once you are at the central station in Lausanne, take the metro TSOL (it's running mostly over the ground; similar to German S-Bahn). A map of Lausanne shows to you the metro trajectory. First take the bus 1 or 5 from the train station (Gare CFF) to St. Fran?is and then walk to Flon and take the metro TSOL bound to Renens. Take off at the "EPFL" stop (red label on map below). Tickets must be purchased at vending machines before boarding the bus (the same ticket is valid on metro TSOL up to 60 mins). You can find here the metro timetable (only french version available).

By car

Highways are labelled by green signs in Switzerland. You must buy a 40 CHF windscreen sticker (one year validity) at the border or petrol stations. On the motorway always follow Lausanne Sud and exit the motorway at "Sortie UNIL-EPFL" (green label on map above). Finally, the picture below shows to you where the LASA is as you enter the campus. There is a covered public parking just at the end of tree-lined road (type your space number at the vending machine).