20.07.21 – At its meeting of 14-15 July 2021, the ETH Board has appointed Dr Victor Gorbenko as new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physics (IPHYS). Dr Victor Gorbenko, currently Research Fellow at Stanford University, USA, was named as Tenure-Track … Continue reading →
16.07.21 – At its meeting of 14-15 July 2021, the ETH Board promoted Prof. Maria Colombo as Full Professor at the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Prof. Maria Colombo currently Tenure Track-Assistant Professor at EPFL, has been promoted to Full Professor … Continue reading →
16.07.21 – At its meeting of 14-15 July 2021, the ETH Board has appointed Dr Lénaïc Chizat, Dr Victor Gorbenko, Dr Georgios Moschidis, and Dr Philippe Schwaller as new Tenure-Track Assistant Professors at the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Dr Lénaïc Chizat … Continue reading →
16.07.21 – Although a very promising solution for capturing solar energy, perovskite solar cells contain lead, which is toxic to the environment and a serious health hazard. EPFL scientists have now found a very elegant and efficient solution by adding … Continue reading →
05.07.21 – Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a machine-learning model that can predict a compound’s oxidation state, a property that is so essential that many chemists argue it must be included in the periodic table. Chemical elements make up … Continue reading →
02.07.21 – EPFL scientists have devised a new method that can speed up the real-time observation capabilities of cryo-electron microscopy. In 2017, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to cryo-electron … Continue reading →
01.07.21 – A collaboration between EPFL and UCSB has developed a long-anticipated breakthrough, and demonstrated CMOS technology – used for building microprocessors and memory chips – that allows wafer-scale manufacturing of chip-scale optical frequency combs. Optical frequency combs consist of … Continue reading →
29.06.21 – Head of the Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Materials at EPFL, Wendy Queen’s sponges tells us about her love for sponges. A certain kind of sponges. “I am Wendy Queen. I’m originally from South Carolina. I moved to Switzerland from the San … Continue reading →
25.06.21 – EPFL scientists have used an unprecedented method with multimodal host-guest complexation to greatly improve the stability of perovskite solar cells while also reducing the release of lead into the environment. Perovskites are hybrid compounds made from metal halides … Continue reading →
24.06.21 – Maxim Karpov, who received his PhD from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded one of the two 2021 Thesis Prizes for applied aspects from the Quantum Electronics and Optics division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society … Continue reading →