The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa; German: Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, French: Laboratoire fédéral d’essai des matériaux et de recherche, Italian: Laboratorio federale di prova dei materiali e di ricerca, Romansh: Institut federal da controlla da material e da perscrutaziun,) is a Swiss research institution for application-oriented materials science and technology. It has three locations – Dübendorf, St. Gallen and Thun. As part of the ETH Domain, it is assigned to the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER). For more than 100 years since its foundation in 1880, Empa has been a material testing institute. Since the late 1980s, it has increasingly transformed into an interdisciplinary research institute for materials and technologies.
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Empa in the context of ETH Domain
The Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Domain, German: ETH-Bereich, French: Domaine des Écoles polytechniques fédérales) is a union of Swiss governmental universities and research institutions. It primarily consists of the following institutions:
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
- Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
- CCEM (Energy & Mobility)
- CCES (Environment & Sustainability)
- CCMX (Materials Science & Technology)
- NCCBI (Biomedical Imaging)