Sim4Life for Students — We Support Education and Research
- free but limited #elements
- instant access anywhere
- private and shared projects
- all projects compatible with the desktop versions
- collaborate in real-time
- all solvers, many tools
- one ViP V3 model
- no HPC-enabled solvers
- no 3rd-party tools
* Educational email account required
User Testimonials
“Your company has developed an outstanding EM simulation software that is invaluable to the research efforts in my lab
and has far-reaching benefits for the broader scientific community. The addition of NeuroRat will be instrumental in
helping us meet critical HEAL initiative milestones, advance our research goals, and support further impactful
publications. We deeply appreciate your team's support and dedication to Bio-EM innovation.”
Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar, Associate Professor, AA. Martinos Center,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
“I truly enjoy using Sim4Life.lite for teaching. It has streamlined our workflow, eliminating the challenges we previously faced with
local deployments, and offers, e.g., effective project management features that greatly enhance our course organization.
This winter semester, I plan to continue using Sim4Life.lite for smaller research projects and am excited to expand its use for
larger courses in the future. I look forward to exploring more ways to integrate Sim4Life.lite into our teaching and research.”
Dr. Andreas Rowald, Associate Professor, Professur für Digital Health Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
"The flexibility that Sim4Life.lite offers is invaluable in my teaching as an engineering educator. Sim4Life.lite
allows me to visualize interactions of electromagnetic waves with biological tissues and aid the students' understanding
of these complex concepts. My students can follow the complicated topics of the lessons on bioelectromagnetics on their
own devices, independent of available hardware, and it allows them to work on their own projects collaboratively in a team,
while sharing their progress with me."
Dr. Lena Kranold, Lecturer, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Australia
"We have successfully integrated Sim4Life.lite into our Bachelor End Project (BEP) assignments. Sim4Life.lite has proven to
be an excellent solution, allowing students to complete tutorials and gain a solid understanding of the software before
advancing to more complex models. For students who require larger models, we offer access to the full version. One of
our students using a MacBook found Sim4Life.lite particularly beneficial, as it enabled them to complete their entire
project seamlessly on that platform. We are pleased with its performance and plan to continue using S4L Lite in future
BEP assignments."
Dr. Kemal Sumser, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Electromagnetics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
"Sim4Life.lite has become an essential tool in my role as a university professor. The cloud-based platform enables me to design
interactive simulations that help students visualize and engage with challenging electromagnetic concepts. Without requiring
specialized hardware, it offers a flexible and accessible way to teach complex theories, making them more intuitive and easier
to grasp through real-time simulations."
Prof. Dr. Aiping Yao, School of Information Science and Engineering, Nanchang University, China
“Sim4Life.lite is an exceptional software, particularly as a teaching tool for electromagnetics and circuit design. Its
intuitive, user-friendly interface makes it accessible for beginners, while still providing robust functionality for more
advanced users. Although it has some limitations compared to the full version, they are hardly noticeable in most common
applications, allowing users to explore and simulate a wide range of scenarios effectively. Sim4Life.lite truly sparks
interest in the field by making complex concepts more approachable and engaging.”
Tobey Haluptzok, Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering, Cand. PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
“Sim4Life.lite allows me to run my model from any computer without specific hardware requirements, and the free student
license is a fantastic benefit. Automating the entire workflow - from modeling to post-processing - in Python offers remarkable flexibility,
while the ability to visually overlay the model, electric field, and neural response has greatly enhanced our understanding of the results.”
Anna Kochnev Goldstein, Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering, Cand. PhD, Stanford University, USA
Sim4Life.lite
Sim4Life.lite is the student version of our cutting-edge online simulation platform, available free-of-charge for both graduate and undergraduate students. It is the limited version of the full platform, Sim4Life, specifically designed to enhance students' understanding of computational modeling and simulations across a diverse range of topics, from wireless communication to medical applications.
- Free-of-charge, educational email account is required
- Access, run, and share simulations in the cloud easily from any browser
- Offers the same features as the desktop version but is more flexible
- Does not require powerful in-house computational resources
Specifications
Platform | Online |
Application | Self-directed study |
Grid Size | max. 20 Mio. cells |
Solvers | EM-FDTD, EM-QS, Thermal, Neuro, Acoustic |
GPU Acceleration | No |
ViP Human Models | Yoon-sun |
Python | Yes |
3rd-Party Tools | No |
Project Sharing / Collaboration | Yes |
We offer special licenses for the academic community, including undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scientists in universities and research institutions. Sim4Life for Science is crafted for scientists requiring computational modeling solutions with select features tailored to their research needs. Available at no cost through the Sim4Life for Science program contract, it is exclusively restricted to research purposes at universities and academic institutes. Find out more here.
Student Competition 2025
Enter the contest and win one of our exciting prizes!
Take your research to the next level by submitting your published scientific paper or report to the Sim4Life Student Competition 2025 for a chance to win one of three attractive prizes! The awards recognize exceptional use of numerical simulations across diverse research areas at universities.
Who can participate?
Undergraduate, masters, and PhD students who use Sim4Life.lite or Sim4Life.science in their research. If you have not yet started using Sim4Life, register for a free Sim4Life.lite account at sim4life-lite.io or a Sim4Life.science account at sim4life.science.
How to participate?
• Define a unique numerical problem and use Sim4Life to model and solve the problem
• To enter the competition, submit your project, including a brief explanation (based on this template) of your approach, along with the corresponding Sim4Life simulation file
• Alternatively, if you have published a scientific paper or presented at a scientific meeting in 2025, submit the paper or abstract along with the corresponding Sim4Life simulation file to enter the competition
Deadline
31 October 2025, 23:59h Swiss local time
Successful submission of a project will be confirmed by email.
Evaluation criteria
The submitted projects will be evaluated by a panel of experts according to the following criteria:
• scientific value / importance
• originality / complexity
• appropriate use of Sim4Life.lite modeling tools, solvers, analysis, Python notebook, and libraries
• proper application of methodology, verification and validation, and confidence intervals, and recognition of limitations
• quality of reporting in terms of clarity, completeness, and presentation, including visuals
Winners
The winners will be notified individually via email between 1 and 15 of December 2025, and prizes will be officially announced by ZMT thereafter.
Awards
1st Prize USD 3,000
2nd Prize USD 2,000
3rd Prize USD 1,000
In case of questions, please contact the Sim4Life Team at s4l-support@zmt.swiss.