NAM location

The Nanophotonics & Metrology Laboratory (NAM) is located on the South-west side of the EPFL campus, as indicated in the image below.

Most of our activities are located on the 2nd floor of the building ELG (see map below), the reception is in office ELG-241.

Getting there by train and metro...

Lausanne is very well connected to the Swiss and European rail network, including two hourly connections to any major Swiss city, as well as several dayly connections to Paris and Milan. There is only one railway station in Lausanne.

As you exit the train station on the north side (towards platform 1), cross the place and proceed towards the entrance of the Mc Donalds fast-food. On the right you will find the entrance to the metro M2.

You will need a ticket for two zones; it costs SFr. 2.80 and is valid for one hour on the entire network within Lausanne.

Take the metro M2 uphill one station to Flon. There change to the metro M1 (just one level up in the same building), direction Renens.

Get off at the stop marked EPFL (approximately 12 minutes journey) and make your way to the NAM, following the red path on the above map:
- Leave the Metro stop via the underpassage (i.e. walk in the same direction as your train);
- On the other side of the underpassage, take the monumental stairs;
- Walk along the BM building (in dark blue on the map above);
- Aim slightly towards the right to reach the EL building (in pale red on the map);
- Enter the building marked ELA and continue on the same level straight on throught two walkways between different buildings (ELD, ELE);
- At the end you will be in the building ELG, take the stairs up one floor. The reception is in office ELG 241.

...by car

There is currently a lot of building work on the main road Lausanne-Geneva and the traffic lights marked on the map above have been replaced with a temporary roudabout. Enter the EPFL campus there, turn around the fountain with the large wooden bird sculpture and head north towards the buildings. The public underground parking is just in front of you (see blue line and P-sign on the map above).

From the parking, go up one floor onto the main square and catch the track from the Metro stop to the ELG building, as indicated above (red line on the map).

...by taxi

A taxi from Lausanne center to EPFL costs about 25 Swiss Francs. Ask the driver to drop you at "EPFL-Esplanade", which is just by the blue P-sign on the map above. Then walk to our building.