# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-vetterli
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:20:01.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-vetterli"
name: "Martin Vetterli"
slug: "martin-vetterli"
description: "Martin Vetterli is a professor of engineering of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, and was the former president of EPFL between 2017 and 2024. He was also formerly the president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation."
tagline: "Swiss engineering academic, president of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Vetterli_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.814364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/MartinVetterli"
    handle:    "MartinVetterli"
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    url:       "http://lcav.epfl.ch/people/martin.vetterli/"
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    title: "Martin Vetterli"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Vetterli"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump