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GRANTS
ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grants
- Nako Nakatsuka
- Zhengmao Lu
ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grants
- Camille-Sophie Brès
- Elison Matioli
- Kirsten Moselund
- Francesco Stellacci
ERC (European Research Council) Synergy Grants
- Pierre Vandergheynst
- Christophe Ballif
ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grants
- Sophia Haussener
- Maryam Kamgarpour
- Li Tang
ARIA’s Robot Dexterity program
- Josie Hughes
Simons Foundation grant
- Florent Krzakala
BRIDGE Discovery Grant
- Li Tang
- Dominique Pioletti
SNSF Swiss-Korean quantum grants
- Hatice Altug
AWARDS
Marcel Benoist Prize laureate
- Tobias J. Kippenberg
Friedrich Miescher Award
- Li Tang
Leenaards Foundation Science Prize
- Li Tang
2025 Fresnel Prize for Applied Aspects from the European Physical Society
- Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus
Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS) Lifetime Achievement Award
- Luc Thévenaz
SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland) special award for scientific contribution to the development of sustainable cementitious materials
- Karen Scrivener
Outstanding Early Career Award at MicroFIP 2025
- Zhengmao Lu
iCANX Young Scientist Award
- Yujia Zhang
2025 IEEE John Vig Award
- Sandro Carrara
David Adler Award
- Nicola Marzari
Ruzicka Prize
- Nako Nakatsuka
Lem Prize
- Li Tang
RECOGNITIONS
Elected full members of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- Giovanni De Micheli
- Sophia Haussener
Ambassadors for the ERC network
- Adrian Ionescu
Elected to Academia Europaea
- Adrian Ionescu
Awarded Honorary Frijda Chair
- Stéphanie P. Lacour
Royal Society of Chemistry Biomaterials Science Lectureship
- Li Tang
Elected Fellow of the optics and photonics society Optica
- Edoardo Charbon
STUDENTS AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship
- Ata Golparvar from EPFL’s doctoral program in Microsystems and Microelectronics
- Zhe Zhang of the Laboratory of Wave Engineering
Raymond Andrew Prize
- Nergiz Sahin Solmaz of the Microsystems Laboratory (LMIS1)
SNSF Ambizione grant
- Gregor Taylor of the Advanced Quantum Architecture Laboratory (AQUA)
OMEGA Scientific Award
- Gian Luca Barbruni of the Bio/CMOS Interfaces Laboratory
STI Teaching Assistant Awards
- Berke Erbas of the Microsystems Laboratory
- Pol Torres Vila of the Microsystems Laboratory
- Chenxiang Zhang of the Microsystems Laboratory
- Emilio Fernández Lavado of the Microsystems Laboratory
- Camilla Minzoni of the Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering
- Laurine Kolly of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces
- Tugçe Delipinar of the Laboratory for Advanced Fabrication Technologies
- Igor Reshetnikov of the Energy Transport Advances Lab
- Sthithpragya Gupta of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory
- Gaia Stella Bolognini of the of the Laboratory for Quantum Gases
- Matteo Quinzi of NCCR MARVEL
- Aleksandr Poliukhin of NCCR MARVEL
- Luca Righetti of the Theory and Simulation of Materials Lab
- Stavros Athanasiou of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory
- Adrián Fernández Carnicero of the Microwaves and Antennas Group
- Matthieu Wendling of the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials
- Simon Jeger of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
- Ben Jarvis of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
- Julius Wanner of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
- Andrea Vicari of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
- Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez of the Embedded Systems Laboratory
- Cyril Monette of the Mobile Robotic Systems Group
- Guillaume Vray of the Signal Processing Laboratory 5
Swiss National Science Foundation Scientific Image Competition – first prize
- Gaétan Raynaud of the Unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory (UNFoLD)
EDMI Thesis Award
- Yunfei Teng of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology (LBEN)
EDEE Thesis Awards & Distinctions
- Yuqing Ren of the Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory
- Elias Le Boudec of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory
APS-DFD Video Award from the Gallery of Fluid Motion
- Students from the Unsteady Flow Diagnostics Laboratory (UNFoLD), in collaboration with the Computational Robot Design and Fabrication Lab (CREATE)
Young Scientist Award
- Xinyi Wei of the Group of Energy Materials (GEM)