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 →
09.11.20 – Using a unique material, EPFL scientists have been able to design and study an unusual state of matter, the Quantum Spin Liquid. The work has significant implications for future technologies, from quantum computing to superconductivity and spintronics. In … Continue reading →
04.11.20 – Donna Testerman, a professor at EPFL’s Institute of Mathematics, is this year’s recipient of the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching. Her achievements include a comprehensive MOOC in linear algebra that is open to all. At 6 a.m. … Continue reading →
16.10.20 – Professor Michael Graetzel from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, receives this year’s Diels Planck Lecture Award of KiNSIS (Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science), a priority research area of Kiel University. The interdisciplinary research association … Continue reading →
12.10.20 – The ISIC laboratories of LIMNO and LMRE team up to uncover the influence of composition on performance in metallic Iron-Nickel-Cobalt ternary anodes for alkaline water electrolysis. Metallic electrodes based on iron, nickel, and/or cobalt have re-emerged as promising … Continue reading →
06.10.20 – Deep Tech engineering firm Akselos and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have won a major grant from the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse), worth 1.2 million Swiss francs to deliver a next-generation structural design and assessment tool for … Continue reading →
05.10.20 – EPFL chemical engineers have developed a new way to manufacture zeolitic membranes, state-of-the-art materials used for gas separation in harsh conditions. Zeolites are porous minerals that occur both naturally but also are being synthesized artificially. Because they are … Continue reading →