14.01.22 – EPFL Professors Maria Colombo and Nicolas Boumal have been awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Prof. Maria Colombo, head of the Chair of Mathematical Analysis, Calculus of Variations and PDEs (AMCV), received the grant for … Continue reading →
11.01.22 – Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a new approach to artificial photosynthesis, a method for harvesting solar energy that produces hydrogen as a clean fuel from water. “Artificial photosynthesis is the holy grail of all chemists,” says Astrid … Continue reading →
30.09.21 – Elisabetta Cornacchia, a PhD student in the Chair MDS of professor Emmanuel Abbé, won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2021 Conference in Learning Theory (COLT 2021).This conference is one of the leading conferences in the theory of machine learning. … Continue reading →
29.09.21 – Les premiers modules de cellules en pérovskite arrivent sur le marché, concurrençant les panneaux solaires. A Sion, l’EPFL-Valais Perovskite Solar, dirigé par le professeur Mohammad Nazeeruddin, n’est pas en reste. A Neuchâtel, Christophe Baillif, professeur au Laboratoire de … Continue reading →
23.09.21 – Hugo Cui, a PhD student at EPFL, has won the national final of FameLab Switzerland, one of the world’s biggest science-communication competitions. FameLab is an international competition where participants have exactly three minutes to present a scientific talk. … Continue reading →
14.09.21 – The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded Ambizione grants to four young researchers to perform their own projects within the Institute of Physics (IPHYS). The highly selective Ambizione program is aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct, … Continue reading →
08.09.21 – Paco and Cedric have worked together on bottom-up synthesis of graphene films hosting atom-thick molecular-sieving apertures and now the work is online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)! The energy efficiency of … Continue reading →
03.09.21 – It is with great sorrow that we announce that our colleague and friend Assyr Abdulle passed away on September 1st, after courageously fighting illness for many years. Assyr was a world-renowned expert in the field of numerical methods … Continue reading →
02.09.21 – A simple and cheap device for detecting neutrons has been developed by a team of EPFL researchers and their collaborators. The device, based on a special class of crystalline compounds called perovskites, could be used to quickly detect … Continue reading →
31.08.21 – EPFL’s new Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE Center) will establish and promote programs for cross-disciplinary research, education and innovation in the fields of quantum science and engineering. “Developing quantum technology is an incredible venture that puts … Continue reading →