29.10.19 – Professor Victor Panaretos, an EPFL faculty member since 2007, has been named this year’s best teacher in mathematics. Upon hearing that he won his section’s best teacher award, Panaretos was happy but a little skeptical. He jokes by … Continue reading →
18.10.19 – The Teaching excellence award 2019 goes to Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf. This year, the Excellence in Teaching Award was presented to Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf, who is very active in science promotion activities for girls.
Continue reading →10.10.19 – Three PhD students from the SPC were honoured at the annual conference of the Plasma Division of the European Physical Society. M. Wensing received one of the best PhD student poster awards, A. Iantchenko was recommended for the … Continue reading →
09.10.19 – Edoardo Baldini, a former PhD student in the labs of Majed Chergui and Fabrizio Carbone, has won the 2019 Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society. Given by the American Physical … Continue reading →
07.10.19 – Depolymerizing biomass using protection group chemistry “For his discovery of the acetal functionalization of lignin and carbohydrates, which prevent degradation reactions during the extraction of these fractions from plant matter. Acetal formation notably enables the isolation of lignin, … Continue reading →
01.10.19 – Tatsuya Nakada has been awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society. Given by the Italian Physical Society (IPS) since 2001, the prestigious Enrico Fermi Prize is awarded to commemorate the great physicist and Nobel laureate, … Continue reading →
30.09.19 – EPFL Professor Zsolt Patakfalvi has received a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on the classification of varieties. The ERC Starting Grants are given each year to researchers of any nationality and in any … Continue reading →
23.09.19 – Giacomo Rosilho de Souza (ANMC) was awarded the Butcher prize 2019 for the best paper by a PhD student at the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE). The John Butcher Prize in Numerical Analysis was … Continue reading →
13.09.19 – Jennifer Schober, a researcher with EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics, has been awarded a PRIMA grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. PRIMA grants are awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and are “aimed at excellent women … Continue reading →
12.09.19 – Three researchers hosted at EPFL’s Institute of Physics have been awarded Ambizione Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) aims its Ambizione grants to “young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and … Continue reading →