GRANTS

ERC Advanced Grant

• Tobias J. Kippenberg

ERC Consolidator Grant

• Tobias Schneider

ERC Proof of Concept Grant

• Fabien Sorin
• Hatice Altug
• Camille-Sophie Brès
• Bruno Correia
• Tobias Kippenberg
• Selman Sakar
• Andras Kis

Singergia Grant

• Dominique Pioletti
• Nikolaos Stergiopulos

AWARDS

IBM Faculty Award

• Nicola Marzari

Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching

• Dominique Pioletti

IEEE Best Transactions of Electromagnetic Compatibility Award Paper:

• Mario Paolone

Multimedia Star Innovation Award IEEE

• Touradj Ebrahimi Electrical and Electronics Engineerings)

RECOGNITIONS

IEEE Fellows 2020

• Aude Billard
• Touradj Ebrahimi
• Auke Ijspeert
• Dimitri Van de Ville

Listed as Highly cited researchers

• Chritophe Ballif
• Andras Kis
• Tobias J. Kippenberg
• Nicola Marzari
• Ali H. Sayed

Motohisa Kanda Award for most cited paper of the IEEE Transactions on EMC in the past 5 years:

• Nicolas Mora and Farhad Rachidi (Electrical Engineering)

The Materials Chemistry Emergent Investigators

• Maartje Bastings

Others:

• Elected vice-president of the Society of Engineering Science (SES): Pedro Reis (mechanical)
• Elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society: François Gallaire (Mechanical)
• Elected in the Academia Europeae: Francesco Stellacci (Institute of Materials)
• Honorary doctoral degree from McMaster University: Nucgek Rappaz (Institute of Materials)
• List of Innovators under 35 for China: Li Tang

STUDENTS AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• CENTRALP Award: Jonathan Cotter
• EDEE best Doctoral Thesis Award: Daniela Zöller (Electrical Engineering)
• Best Student Paper award at IEEE Conference ITSC 19: Ezequiel Gonzalez Debada  (Electrical Engineering)
• Best Poster Award at IROS 19: Frédéric Giraud (Mechanical Engineering)
• Grand Prize of iGEM Competition: EPFL’s student Bioengineering team
• Best Paper Award at IEEE Sensors Conference: Francesca Criscuolo