29.04.19 – The magic of interfaces strikes again. Cu/CeO2-x heterodimers are presented as one of the prime examples where metal/metal oxide synergistic effects promote CO2RR. The development of a colloidal seeded-growth synthesis was crucial to connect these two highly mismatched … Continue reading →
03.04.19 – Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the study of “Extremely Coherent Mechanical Oscillators and circuit Cavity Electro-Optics” The quest for mechanical oscillators with ultralow dissipation is motivated by classical and quantum sensing … Continue reading →
01.04.19 – Les professeurs Pierre Gönczy, Douglas Hanahan (Faculté des sciences de la vie) et Tobias J. Kippenberg (Faculté des sciences de Base et Faculté sciences et techniques de l’ingénieur) ont reçu des Advanced Grants du Conseil européen de la … Continue reading →
20.12.18 – Professor Maryna Viazovska at EPFL has won the 2019 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her solution to the famous sphere-packing problem. The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics was established in 1990 with a donation by … Continue reading →
06.12.18 – Professors Clémence Corminboeuf, Christoph Galland, and Suliana Manley have been awarded Consolidator Grants 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 … Continue reading →
06.12.18 – The European Research Council (ERC) has given four scientists from the PSI, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and Stockholm University a €14 million grant to look “into the heart of materials” and uncover new quantum effects that have gone overlooked … Continue reading →
05.12.18 – Professor Annalisa Buffa has been elected correspondent member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Professor Annalisa Buffa has been elected correspondent member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, literally the “Academy of the … Continue reading →
04.12.18 – Professor Ursula Roethlisberger has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is “the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society”, publishing the Science family of … Continue reading →
03.12.18 – Professor Christian Theiler at the Swiss Plasma Center (EPFL) has been awarded an Eccellenza Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. The Swiss National Foundation’s Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships and SNSF Eccellenza Grants are given each year to “highly … Continue reading →
30.11.18 – Professor Christian Theiler at the Swiss Plasma Center (EPFL) has been awarded an “Enabling Research Grant” from the EUROfusion Consortium to lead a collaborative research project in the physics of tokamaks. The Enabling Research Grant is described as … Continue reading →