22.11.18 – Professor Jeremy Luterbacher has been awarded the Swiss Chemical Society’s Werner Prize for 2019. The Werner Prize is awarded annually to promising young Swiss scientists or scientists working in Switzerland under 40 to recognize “their outstanding research in … Continue reading →
31.10.18 – Professor Majed Chergui has been voted a Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association. The American Crystallographic Association (ACA) is a non-profit, scientific organization of over 1,300 members in more than 35 countries. Founded in 1949, the ACA’s objective … Continue reading →
19.10.18 – Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago and Dr Amita Ummadisingu, researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), have won the first and second Clariant CleanTech Awards in 2018. Clariant is a speciality chemicals company headquartered in Basel and operating … Continue reading →
10.10.18 – Understanding and discovering materials in silico “For his computer-based search for low-dimensional materials with novel electronic and transport properties. He has predicted a novel topological insulator phase in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth iodide, and a robust Weyl semimetal phase in … Continue reading →
05.10.18 – Simone Deparis, an EPFL senior scientist and teacher in the mathematics section, has been awarded the 2018 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching. He introduced a flipped classroom approach in his first-year linear algebra class this past year, … Continue reading →
27.09.18 – A paper by Dr Magalí Lingenfelder has been included in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s “100 Women of Chemistry” themed collection. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the UK’s largest professional body for chemical scientists. Founded in … Continue reading →
26.09.18 – Professors Rainer Beck and Christoph Bostedt, at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and 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 →
18.09.18 – EPFL Chemistry Professor Xile Hu has won the 2018 Resonate Award from Caltech for his work on for developing abundant and non-precious metal catalysts for sustainable synthesis of added-value chemicals and cost-effective production of solar fuels. The Resonate … Continue reading →
14.09.18 – Jovana Milic, a research scientist at EPFL’s Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, and Shang-Jung Wu, a PhD student at the Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology have won awards for the Best Poster Presentation at the Swiss Chemical Society’s 2018 Fall … Continue reading →
14.09.18 – Professor Kumar Varoon Agrawal has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. The ERC Starting Grants are given each year to researchers of any nationality and in any field of research with 2-7 years of … Continue reading →