08.01.20 – New measurements using gravitational lensing, an innovative method that EPFL researchers have been working on for many years, suggest the universe is expanding faster than previously thought. A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have announced … Continue reading →
07.01.20 – Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that has allowed them to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas from CO2 and H2 for the first time. Infrared (IR) thermography is used … Continue reading →
23.12.19 – Professor Rivera Fuentes has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza (SNSF) Grant for his project “Chemical probes to control redox biology with subcellular precision”. Pablo Rivera Fuentes is, since August 2019, a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of chemical … Continue reading →
20.12.19 – Suchcat is one of the six new National Centres of Competence in Research established by the Swiss federal government. Professor Jérôme Waser at EPFL’s Institute of chemical sciences and engineering will co-lead the project with ETHZ as leading … Continue reading →
18.12.19 – The CHEOPS satellite was put into orbit on Wednesday, a day later than planned, from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The telescope, which will hunt for new exoplanets, is the result of six years of collaboration … Continue reading →
18.12.19 – Rogério Jorge got the award for his thesis entitled ‘A moment-based model for plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality’ supervised by Prof. Paolo Ricci at the Swiss Plasma Center and Prof. Nuno Loureiro at the MIT and at the … Continue reading →
16.12.19 – Scientists at EPFL have been able to monitor the time-evolution of thermally-induced chemical reactions with element- and structural-sensitivity. Most chemical reactions, natural or man-made, are driven by thermal effects. This makes their monitoring in “real-time” difficult, and only … Continue reading →
16.12.19 – The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of two full professors at the Institute of Physics. Dr Mike Seidel was named as Full Professor of Physics. Mike Seidel is a recognised expert … Continue reading →
14.12.19 – The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of seven professors at EPFL. Among them, three are from the School of Basic Sciences. Professor Nicolas Boumal was named as Tenure Track Assistant Professor … Continue reading →
13.12.19 – Professor Maryna Viazovska at EPFL has won the 2019 Fermat Prize for research in Mathematics for her solution to the famous sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24. The 2019 Fermat prize in mathematics has been awarded … Continue reading →