12.02.19 – Seeking to address fluoride contamination in drinking water, chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a portable and user-friendly device that can measure fluoride concentration accurately and reliably. Adding fluoride to water has been common practice in a number … Continue reading →
11.02.19 – Scientists from EPFL and the Russian Quantum Center have built a photonic integrated, compact, and portable soliton microcomb source. The device is less than 1 cm3 in size, and is driven by an on-chip indium phosphide laser consuming … Continue reading →
01.02.19 – When researchers make a new discovery, they tend to only publish the results of their successful experiments. But just as informative are all the experiments that didn’t work – the failed trials and incorrect hypotheses, which can offer … Continue reading →
10.01.19 – Distinguishing between left-handed and right-handed (“chiral”) molecules is crucial in chemistry and the life sciences, and is commonly done using a method called circular dichroism. However, during biochemical reactions the chiral character of molecules may change. EPFL scientists … Continue reading →
04.01.19 – Optical frequency combs are frequently used to transfer stabilities from the microwave domain to the optical domain, thus yielding unprecedented precision in laser-sensing and metrology. Now, a frequency comb generated in a microresonator allows scientists led by EPFL … Continue reading →
20.12.18 – Professor Maryna Viazovska at EPFL has won the 2019 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her solution to the famous sphere-packing problem. The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics was established in 1990 with a donation by … Continue reading →
17.12.18 – At its meeting of 12-13 December 2018, the ETH Board has appointed one new Full Professor, Prof. Sofia Olhede, and promoted Prof. Victor Panaretos as Full Professor of the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Professor Sofia Olhede was … Continue reading →
17.12.18 – At its meeting of 12-13 December 2018, the ETH Board has promoted Prof. Clément Hongler to Associate Professor of Mathematics at the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Professor Clément Hongler has been promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics from … Continue reading →
17.12.18 – At its meeting of 12-13 December 2018, the ETH Board has named Dr. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes and Dr. Lesya Shchutska as Tenure-Track Assistant Professors at the School of Basic Sciences (SB) Pablo Rivera-Fuentes has been named Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Chemical … Continue reading →
14.12.18 – At its meeting of 12-13 December 2018, the ETH Board has awarded the title of adjunct professor to four researchers of the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Simone Deparis Simone Deparis is an internationally recognized scientist in the … Continue reading →