n 11.07.23 – The Swiss Physical Society has selected its annual recipients of the prestigious SPS Awards. Among them are two researchers from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences.
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Each year, the Swiss Physical Society awards the best PhD theses in physics. The SPS Award committee, chaired by Professor Hugo Zbinden at the University of Geneva, has now selected the winners for 2023. The citation reads: “The high level of all submitted works proves the scientific qualification of the younger generation of physicists in Switzerland.”

Among the six winners are two researchers who carried out their doctorate work at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences:

• Simone Gargiulo (SPS Award in General Physics), for his PhD thesis: “Electromagnetic processes of nuclear excitation: from direct photoabsorption to free electron and muon capture”. PhD supervisor: Professor Fabrizio Carbone.
• Mohammad Bereyhi (SPS Award Metrology) for his PhD thesis “Ultra low quantum decoherence nano-optomechanical systems”. PhD supervisor: Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg.

The winners will each give a talk on their work at the SPS Joint Annual Meeting in Basel.

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