nn n 04.10.22 – EPFL physics professor Jean-Philippe Ansermet has won the 2022 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching – a crowning achievement that comes just before he retires. For thirty years he taught with passion and an unshakeable enthusiasm.n … Continue reading →
nn n 11.09.22 – EPFL biophysicists have developed control software that optimizes how fluorescence microscopes collect data on living samples. Their control loop, used to image mitochondrial and bacterial sites of division in detail, is released as an open source … Continue reading →
nn n 17.08.22 – Scientists in Switzerland and Germany have demonstrated generation of electron-photon pair states for the first time in a controlled way, using integrated photonic circuits on a chip. Using a new technique, they managed to precisely detect … Continue reading →
nn n 04.08.22 – Physicists at EPFL and the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics have created a new way to simulate quantum entanglement between interacting particles. Their approach involves adding extra, fictitious particles controlled by an artificial intelligence … Continue reading →
nn n 12.07.22 – Professor Pasquale Scarlino, head of the EPFL Hybrid Quantum Circuits Laboratory (HQC) and assistant professor tenure track at the Institute of Physics (IPHYS), has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for his project … Continue reading →
nn n 11.07.22 – Professor Harald Brune at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.n Following Switzerland’s non-association to Horizon Europe as of 2021, the SNSF has on the government’s … Continue reading →
nn n 08.07.22 – The Swiss team took third place at the 2022 International Physicists’ Tournament after spending eight months preparing hard for the competition. Here, the passionate physicists reflect on their experience.n What’s the maximum height from which a … Continue reading →
23.06.22 – The 3rd year Bachelor students in Physics have awarded the Craie d’Or of the best Bachelor teacher to Laurent Villard for his course on computational physics. At the end of their bachelor curriculum, 3rd year physics students elect … Continue reading →
21.06.22 – An international collaboration team of EPFL and Purdue University has developed a hybrid integrated laser that may help the next generation LiDAR for the automotive industry. Lasers are ubiquitous in science and technology – they heal eyes, allow … Continue reading →
17.06.22 – EPFL scientists have built a compact waveguide amplifier by successfully incorporating rare-earth ions into integrated photonic circuits. The device produces record output power compared to commercial fiber amplifiers, a first in the development of integrated photonics over the … Continue reading →