29.12.21 – Thanks to the high-power electron microscopes at the Dubochet Center for Imaging (DCI), EPFL scientists were able to observe the configuration of the Omicron variant’s spike protein at a near-atomic scale. This should provide fresh insight into the … Continue reading →
23.12.21 – Scientists in Switzerland and Germany have achieved efficient electron-beam modulation using integrated photonics – circuits that guide light on a chip. The experiments could lead to entirely new quantum measurement schemes in electron microscopy. The transmission electron microscope … Continue reading →
19.12.21 – Ardemis was awarded the 2022 Nanocarbons Division SES Young Investigator Award! Congratulations! Ardemis was awarded the 2022 Nanocarbons Division SES Young Investigator Award for the Synthetic Biology Approaches for Overcoming Bottlenecks in Optical Nanocarbon Technologies! More details could … Continue reading →
15.12.21 – With the signing of the official Grant Agreement, the EUROfusion consortium is ready to start its new, comprehensive approach to developing fusion energy. Written by Gieljan de Vries, EUROfusion On 15 December EUROfusion signed its Grant Agreement under … Continue reading →
10.12.21 – At its meeting of 8-9 December 2021, the ETH Board promoted has appointed Prof. Vladimir Manucharyan as Associate Professor and Prof. Michaela Hirschmann and Dr. Zoë Holmes as new Tenure-Track Assistant Professors at the School of Basic Sciences (SB). © … Continue reading →
10.12.21 – At its meeting of 8-9 December 2021, the ETH Board promoted Prof. Zsolt Patakfalvi as Associate Professor at the School of Basic Sciences (SB). © 2021 EPFL Professor Zsolt Patakfalvi, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at EPFL, has been … Continue reading →
09.12.21 – Professor Michael Graetzel at EPFL had been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People’s Republic of China. … Continue reading →
06.12.21 – Chemistry Professor Xile Hu at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has won the 2022 Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award from the Swiss Chemical Society. The Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award was founded in 2020 by the … Continue reading →
03.12.21 – Researchers at EPFL, China, Spain and the Netherlands have built a micro-device that uses vibrating molecules to transform invisible mid-infrared light into visible light. The breakthrough ushers in a new class of compact sensors for thermal imaging and … Continue reading →
02.12.21 – Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava will receive the 2022 Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory for their highly original work that introduced and developed methods for understanding the characteristic polynomial of matrices. Professors Adam Marcus, who holds the … Continue reading →