15.12.20 – On December 10th 2020, Sandrine Gerber was elected Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials in recognition for her contribution to “Advancement of Materials to Global Excellence”. 10.12.2020 – Sandrine Gerber gave an invited fellow lecture entitled … Continue reading →
10.12.20 – Prof. Frédéric Courbin (LASTRO) associated with CIS was allocated, for the 3rd time in a row, a SNSF sinergia grant related to the ESA-NASA Euclid space mission. The grant, to be shared between EPFL (PI), UniGE, UniZH and … Continue reading →
10.12.20 – EPFL Professor Jeremy Luterbacher has been awarded one of the 2021 Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Awards “recognize the research contributions of scientists working … Continue reading →
09.12.20 – Scientists at EPFL have developed a game-changing perovskite material that can be used as a cheaper and highly efficient alternative to gamma-ray detectors. Perovskites are materials made up of organic compounds bound to a metal. Propelled into the … Continue reading →
02.12.20 – Materials Today will present the 2020 Materials Today Innovation Award to Prof. Michael Grätzel for his ground-breaking work on solar energy conversion. The Materials Today Innovation Award recognizes “monumental” work, which has opened a new, significant field of … Continue reading →
30.11.20 – Maxim Karpov, a researcher at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Hans Eggenberger Prize for his doctoral work on microresonator-based optical frequency combs. Each year, the Hans Eggenberger Foundation awards its Prize of … Continue reading →
27.11.20 – The Swiss National Science Foundation has awarded Juhan Aru (Mathematics) and Mitali Banerjee (Physics) Eccellenza Grants, as well as a Professorial Fellowship to Richard I. Anderson (astrophysics) who will join in 2021. The Swiss National Foundation’s Eccellenza Professorial … Continue reading →
25.11.20 – Professor Paul Dyson at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is “the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society”. … Continue reading →
19.11.20 – EPFL Valais Wallis is proud to announce that Prof. Nazeeruddin has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate in two separate categories: Material Science and Chemistry. This annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated … Continue reading →
18.11.20 – On October 29th, 2020, MAST Upgrade, UK’s new fusion experimental device, came to life. Inside the machine’s vessel, hydrogen was heated into a plasma hotter than the temperature in the center of the Sun. The Swiss Plasma Center … Continue reading →