Due to severe increase and abuse by students sending generic requests to
many people, we can no longer filter spam from serious requests.
The following guidelines must be followed to apply to LASEC or to request
a support letter.
Any other request may just be discarded without any notification.
We do apologize to serious students for this additional burden.
We do assure that we will treat and answer their request in due course.
Projects / studies / research job applications to LASEC
If you are a student applying for any project work within LASEC, please proceed
along the following guidelines.
Internal EPFL students applying for a semester project or master thesis
- please first have a look at
http://lasec.epfl.ch/teaching.shtml
- please prepare an (informal) application letter explaining what you
already did within LASEC (lectures, previous projects), why you are applying
(motivation), what is your schedule (starting-ending dates)
- please contact Fatih Balli.
External students applying for a master thesis
- be aware that LASEC does not provide financial support to undergraduate
students: students come with their own fellowship
- please prepare an application letter explaining what is your education
background, why you are applying (motivation), what is your schedule
(starting-ending dates), and provide the name and email addresses of
professors we could contact to support your application
- please send your application to the LASEC secretary (Martine Corval).
Foreign students applying for summer internship whatsoever
Students applying for a PhD position
- it is unusual to start a PhD upon a very short notice, we do regularly
recruit new students but we do not know in advance whether we have the fundings
for them, so please apply early in advance and get yourself known to us soon
- please first have a look at the general PhD application guidelines
available from http://phd.epfl.ch/edic
- please prepare an application letter explaining your motivation, provide
your CV and the list of (all) lectures you attended to including the exam
grades (when available)
- (mandatory for external students) provide the name and email addresses of
professors we could contact to support your application
- please send your application to job_lasec@epfl.ch
- CAUTION: this must be done in parallel to your application to EDIC
(the doctoral school): we cannot recruit PhD students who are not registered to
EDIC
PhDs applying for a postdoc position
- please prepare an application letter explaining your motivation, provide
your CV
- provide the name and email addresses of professors we could contact to
support your application
- please send your application to job_lasec@epfl.ch
Support letter requests
If you are a student requesting a support letter for any application, please
proceed along the following guidelines.
Internal EPFL students applying for an internship or master thesis
- please contact first the responsible for internship and external master
thesis for your curriculum
(see http://ssc.epfl.ch)
- please provide the list of ALL credits you obtained in
LASEC (possibly prepared by the previous person)
- please send it to the LASEC secretary (Martine Corval).
Foreign students applying for Federal subsidies to study at EPFL
Other cases
- please first consider you may not be asking to the right place
- please clearly explain your case, make clear that you have read this page, and send your request
to the head of LASEC (Prof. Serge Vaudenay).
Information on how to contact people at LASEC
You can contact us by email
(see our directory
http://lasec.epfl.ch/people.shtml).
Please mention that you have read this document.