23.12.19 – Professor Rivera Fuentes has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza (SNSF) Grant for his project “Chemical probes to control redox biology with subcellular precision”. Pablo Rivera Fuentes is, since August 2019, a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of chemical … Continue reading →
20.12.19 – Suchcat is one of the six new National Centres of Competence in Research established by the Swiss federal government. Professor Jérôme Waser at EPFL’s Institute of chemical sciences and engineering will co-lead the project with ETHZ as leading … Continue reading →
18.12.19 – Rogério Jorge got the award for his thesis entitled ‘A moment-based model for plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality’ supervised by Prof. Paolo Ricci at the Swiss Plasma Center and Prof. Nuno Loureiro at the MIT and at the … Continue reading →
13.12.19 – Professor Maryna Viazovska at EPFL has won the 2019 Fermat Prize for research in Mathematics for her solution to the famous sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24. The 2019 Fermat prize in mathematics has been awarded … Continue reading →
12.12.19 – Professor Elena Goun has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. The European Research Council’s (ERC) Consolidator Grants are given annually to researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of research experience after completion of their PhD, as well … Continue reading →
11.12.19 – Professor Henrik Rønnow has been elected chair of the European Neutron Scattering Association. The European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) is an umbrella organization of about 6-8000 scientists in Europe. An affiliation of national neutron-scattering societies and committees, ENSA’s … Continue reading →
27.11.19 – Professor Xile Hu has won the 2020 International Catalysis Award from the International Association of Catalysis Societies. The International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS) is an association of catalysis societies across thirty countries that exists “to promote scientific … Continue reading →
20.11.19 – Cécile Hébert, an associate professor who frequently tests out new teaching tools and methods, has been awarded the prize for best physics teacher at EPFL. In the middle of the physics section, there’s one office surrounded by greenery … Continue reading →
19.11.19 – Sixteen researchers from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have been included in the Web of Science’s 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list. Since 2014, Clarivate Analytics has produced an annual Highly Cited Researchers list of scientists whose publications during the previous decade … Continue reading →
15.11.19 – Jovana Milic, a research scientist with Michael Grätzel’s lab at EPFL, has won a Best Oral Presentation Prize at the 2019 Nanoge Fall Meeting. NanoGe is “a prestigious brand of successful science conferences” that have been taking place worldwide throughout the year … Continue reading →