The Institute of Materials Science is now ranked #6 worldwide
Two programs are now ranked in the top ten worldwide. According to the most recent QS World University Rankings, the Institute of Materials Science is now ranked #6 up from #10, and the Institute of Electrical Engineering is now ranked #9 up from #16. The Institute of Mechanical Engineering has moved up 9 positions to ...
MT180: First place for the artificial ligaments of Alvaro Charlet
The winner of the fourth annual My Thesis in 180 Seconds competition, held last night at the Rolex Forum, was Alvaro Charlet – a PhD student in materials science. In just three minutes he explained to the 600 people in the audience how his hydrogels receipes could one day replace ligaments in the human body. ...
Prof. Fabien Sorin receives ERC Proof of Concept Grant
Proof of Concept grants, worth up to €150,000 each and open to ERC grant holders, can be used, for example, to establish intellectual property rights, investigate business opportunities or conduct technical validation. Prof. Sorin works on “SenFlex: the first truly smart and flexible fiber sensor” project. ...
Prof. Nicola Marzari receives IBM Faculty Award for curated datasets
Nicola Marzari, head of the Laboratory of theory and simulation of materials (THEOS) and director of the NCCR MARVEL has been granted an IBM Faculty Award—the first given to an EPFL professor—for the project “Curated Datasets on Demand”. The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading ...
The School of Engineering welcomes a talented new professor
Philip Moll, Laboratory of Quantum Materials – Using quantum materials to create the next generation of electronics Philip Moll joined EPFL’s Institute of Materials in June 2018 as an assistant tenure track professor. A German native, Moll previously worked at the Max Planck Institute CPfS in Dresden where he studied the exotic properties of quantum materials. More specifically, he ...
Prof. Maartje Bastings wins SNSF Eccellenza Grant
Maartje Bastings, an assistant professor with the Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory has been awarded an Eccellenza Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The Swiss National Foundation’s Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships and SNSF Eccellenza Grants are given each year to “highly qualified young researchers who aspire to a permanent professorship.” The goal is to support these scientists in leading generously funded research ...