EPFL The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne is one of two federal technical universities in Switzerland. It has three missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level.  EPFL has a dedicated effort to the development and application of computational modeling to outstanding problems in materials science, using quantum-mechanical descriptions of interacting electrons and nuclei that are verified and validated against experimental results and higher-order theories. This computational laboratory allows to characterize or predict materials’ properties directly from first-principles simulations, to screen or design new materials and devices with high-throughput calculations, and to connect microscopic and atomistic structure to macroscopic performance.