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 →
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 →
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 →
01.10.20 – EPFL Professors Suliana Manley (School of Basic Sciences) and Sylvie Roke (School of Engineering) have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. The American Physical Society (APS) is the world’s largest organization of physicists. It was founded … Continue reading →
22.09.20 – The National Latsis Prize, awarded to young researchers under the age of 40, goes to Maryna Viazovska for her ground-breaking mathematical problem solving. For the first time, the winners of the two prestigious Swiss science prizes, the Marcel … Continue reading →
09.09.20 – EPFL Professors Nicolas Grandjean and Tobias J. Kippenberg are among eighteen international research teams sharing a grant for quantum research and innovation, awarded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This year, the US Air Force … Continue reading →