17.02.21 – The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. Hydrogen that inevitably escapes from it must be cooled on its way to the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER … Continue reading →
15.02.21 – Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has been awarded the 2021 Robert W. Wood Prize from The Optical Society. Established in 1975, the Wood Prize is named after renowned physicist Robert W. Wood, who … Continue reading →
10.02.21 – Professor Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin has won the 34th Khwarizmi International Award in Fundamental Sciences. The Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) was established in 1987 in memory of Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (ca. 780-850 AD), the famous Iranian … Continue reading →
09.02.21 – EPFL scientists combined citizen science with machine learning to predict colors of millions of crystal structures of metal-organic frameworks, nanoporous materials with multiple applications in numerous fields, from carbon capture to water purification. In chemistry, it is common … Continue reading →
01.02.21 – Prof. Michael Grätzel will join the next International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics HOPV as a Plenary Speaker Michael Grätzel will be an Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics HOPV that takes … Continue reading →
26.01.21 – Analyzing a classic paper that has influenced the size of parliaments for almost half a century, an EPFL physicist discovers major flaws with its methodology, challenges its fundamental assumptions, and calls for a complete and careful re-think of … Continue reading →
25.01.21 – Ardemis Boghossian will be giving an invinted seminar at the Materials Science and Engineering department of the Carnegie Mellon University. The seminar will take place on the 30th of April at 11:30am EST.
Continue reading →22.01.21 – EPFL Professor Adam W. Marcus, head of the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis, and colleagues Professors Daniel A. Spielman (Yale University) and Nikhil Srivastava (University of California, Berkeley) won the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize for their revolutionary … Continue reading →
22.01.21 – Prof. Nazeeruddin elected TAS Fellowship 2019 Telangana Academy of Sciences elects Prof. Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin as Fellow 2019 of the Academy in recognition of his contributions to Science & Technology.
Continue reading →19.01.21 – Prof. Clemence Corminboeuf, associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation Prof. Clemence Corminboeuf joined Prof. Ursula Roethlisberger as an ACS associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (https://pubs.acs.org/journal/jctcce).
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