12.09.19 – Three researchers hosted at EPFL’s Institute of Physics have been awarded Ambizione Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) aims its Ambizione grants to “young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution.” The grants cover salaries and funding necessary for the awarded research project for a maximum of four years.

This year, the SNSF has awarded 78 Ambizione grants. Eight of these have gone to researchers hosted by EPFL, including three physicists who will perform their project at its Institute of Physics:

Mayeul Chipaux (Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics Lab): Electron-Beam Based Selective Quantum Manipulations of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Tom de Geus (Physics of Complex Systems Laboratory): The Five ‘D’s in Friction

Nils Johan Engelsen (Laboratory of Photonics And Quantum Measurements): Quantum Optomechanics with Ultralow Mechanical Dissipation