27.09.17 – A team of Mathematics Master students from EPFL have founded a Big Data consultancy that has now won a Kaggle competition. Encouraged by their performance in the 2017 Data Mining Cup where they came 13th, the students, Aldo … Continue reading →
26.09.17 – After winning the Air Liquide challenge in November, Professor Kevin Sivula received the Prize during a visit by senior representatives of the Air Liquide group to EPFL. Air Liquide is a French multinational company that supplies various industries … Continue reading →
21.09.17 – Four scientists with EPFL’s School of Basic Scientists have been awarded Ambizione Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Ambizione grants are given to young researchers “who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a … Continue reading →
20.09.17 – EPFL researchers use interference in the motion of a micrometre-size drum to route microwave signals in a single direction. Image: The chip-scale device developed by EPFL researchers, embedded in a copper box for ultralow temperature measurements. These nonreciprocal … Continue reading →
20.09.17 – Three scientists from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The ERC Starting Grants are given each year to researchers of any nationality and in any field of research with … Continue reading →
07.09.17 – EPFL scientists have developed a scanning transmission electron microscopy method that can quickly and efficiently generate 3D representations of curvilinear nanostructures. Image caption: Superposed, tilt-less electron microscopy stereo image (color-filtered) of carbon nanospheres decorated with nanoparticles. The same structures … Continue reading →
30.08.17 – Edoardo Baldini and Konrad Domanski have been awarded the Chorafas Prize 2017. The Chorafas Prize is awarded each year by the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation “for outstanding work in selected fields in the engineering sciences, medicine and the natural … Continue reading →
17.08.17 – Dr Michael Saliba has been included in the TR35, an annual list of the world’s top 35 Innovators under 35 compiled by the MIT Technology Review. The prestigious TR35 is a list published yearly by the MIT Technology Review acknowledging … Continue reading →
14.08.17 – EPFL scientists have developed a new method to efficiently measure electron transfer in dye-sensitized transition-metal oxide photovoltaics. Sensitized solar cells consisting of a molecular or solid-state sensitizer that serves to collect light and inject an electron into a … Continue reading →
04.08.17 – Summer Series: Edward Honein has joined EPFL’s Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology from the American University of Beirut. His summer project, supervised by Professor Ardemis Boghossian, aims to develop a nanotube-based biosensor. Biosensors are devices that can detect biological molecules … Continue reading →