New to our lab?

Before you start working in SMaL

  1. Get your Camipro (student) card (ask Mercedes).
  2. Get the safety training from Alvaro
  3. Upload a picture of you (or make it visible) on your EPFL profile. Visit my.epfl.ch and log in at the bottom right to change your picture. (Instructions)
  4. If you need access to CMi (clean room of EPFL), sign up for their general introduction training.
  5. Ask one of our PhD students for a lab notebook.
  6. If you need training on specific equipment, contact the responsible person (see SOP on the intranet). 
  7. Check the equipment booking tool under SMaL Information/equipment booking
  8. For permanent group members: Get a card for the chemistry store in the IMX Shop.

Before you leave SMaL

  1. Clean up everything in the lab including your old samples (trash them or give them to the PhD student who will further use them), empty your drawer…
  2. Return your lab notebook
  3. Organize all of your files in a folder with your name (including all your raw data, your presentation and final report) and give it to a PhD student of SMaL
  4. Remove all folders on Servers (smal-data) and Computers.