23.12.20 – Prof. Christian Theiler received the IAEA’s Nuclear Fusion Journal Award 2020 for his paper presenting ‘Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV’. The awarding of the 2020 IAEA’s Nuclear Fusion Journal Prize to Ch. … Continue reading →
21.12.20 – Scientists from EPFL, MIT, and CEA Saclay demonstrate a state of vibration that exists simultaneously at two different times. They evidence this quantum superposition by measuring the strongest class of quantum correlations between light beams that interact with … Continue reading →
18.12.20 – Dr Seyedmohamad Moosavi LSMO Congratulations ! “Advancing computational and data-driven methods for the design and discovery of nanoporous materials” Chemists have now synthesised over 90’000 different, MOFs, metal organic frameworks. Mohamad Moosavi was asking the question: How novel … Continue reading →
16.12.20 – Professor Paul Dyson has been appointed as the new Dean of the School of Basic Sciences from 1 January 2021. Paul Dyson, the new Dean of the School of Basic Sciences Paul Dyson joined the Institute of Chemical … Continue reading →
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 →