nn n 23.06.23 – Mr. Loan Mingard and Mr. Julien Verdet, polymechanic apprentices in the IPHYS mechanical workshop, have won prizes in the Fraisa ToolChampions 2022/2023 competition.n The IPHYS mechanical workshop has been training polymechanics for several years now, with … Continue reading →
nn n 22.06.23 – EPFL Professor Xile Hu has won the Robert K. Grasselli Award for Catalysis from the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS). n Given every two years by the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS), the Robert K. … Continue reading →
nn n 21.06.23 – Amir Youssefi at EPFL’s Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements has won the 2023 Swiss Nanotechnology PhD award for his work on optomechanics.n The Swiss Nanotechnology PhD award is given every year by the Swiss Micro- … Continue reading →
nn n 19.06.23 – Researchers at EPFL have developed a new method of creating tiny magnetic structures called skyrmions using light. The work could lead to faster and more efficient devices for data storage.n Skyrmions are tiny, tornado-like whirls within … Continue reading →
nn n 15.06.23 – Drawing from Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, scientists at EPFL have built a “critical cat code” qubit that uses bosons to store and process information in a way that is more reliable and resistant to errors than … Continue reading →
nn n 12.06.23 – On the 7th of June 2023, Rodolphe Gonzalez, precision mechanic at the IPHYS mechanical workshop, and Norbert Adjadj, mechanic at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (LPHE), obtained high-level recognition from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN, consisting … Continue reading →
nn n 30.05.23 – Researchers at EPFL have found a way to study water in “no man’s land,” a subzero temperature range where water crystallizes rapidly. Historically, the inability to access “no man’s land” has prevented scientists from unriddling the … Continue reading →
nn n 26.05.23 – At its meeting of 24-25 May2023, the ETH Board has promoted Professor João Penedones to Associate Professor and Dr Frédéric Blanc and Dr Jérôme Scherer as Adjunct Professors at the School of Basic Sciences (SB).n Professor João … Continue reading →
nn n 26.05.23 – At its meeting of 24-25 May2023, the ETH Board has named two new Assistant Professors (non-tenure-track) at the School of Basic Sciences (SB): Dr Richard Irving Anderson and Dr Christian Wäckerlin.n Dr Richard Irving Anderson Dr Richard Irving … Continue reading →
nn n 24.05.23 – Scientists at EPFL have found a new way to create a crystalline structure called a “density wave” in an atomic gas. The findings can help us better understand the behavior of quantum matter, one of the … Continue reading →