Jean-Marc awarded an honorary doctorate
Professor Jean-Marc has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology for his work in pioneering interface engineering in functional oxides. Norwegian University of Science and Technology Group Triscone
Dirk van der Marel named APS « Outstanding Referee »
Congratulations to Dirk van der Marel who has been named APS “Outstanding Referee”. The American Physical Society (APS) has selected 147 Outstanding Referees for 2018 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online. This highly selective Outstanding…
Johann Blatter and Vadim Geshkenbein receive the 2017 international Abrikosov Prize
Congratulation to Johann Blatter and Vadim Geshkenbein, from ETHZ and both members of MaNEP, who received the 2017 international Abrikosov Prize in Vortex for their contribution to the field of Vortex Physics. This prize rewards outstanding achievements in the basic science of vortex behavior and correlated topics. Johann W. Blatter, Mikhail V. Feigel’man, Vadim B. Geshkenbein…
Patrycja Paruch receives the iWOE-24 Oxide Electronics Prize
Congratulations to Patrycja Paruch who receives the iWOE-24 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellency in Research ! Patrycja is awarded for “contributions to the understanding of the physics of domain walls in ferroelectrics – in particular for her work on domain wall creep, studies of domain wall roughness, and her discovery of conductivity at domain walls…
Antoine Georges has been named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
Antoine Georges, Professor at the Ecole polytechnique, at Collège de France and at the University of Geneva, has been named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Antoine Georges will receive this decoration on June 19, 2017 at the Collège de France. The Légion d’Honneur is the highest French national distinction. Antoine George was awarded numerous prizes…
Marta Gibert and Ana Akrap obtain a SNFS professorship
Congratulations to Marta Gibert and Ana Akrap of the Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva who have obtained a SNSF professorship grant. Marta Gibert has received the grant with a project on Functional oxide heterostructures by design. She will be appointed as professor at the University of Zürich. Her research interests are in…
Marta Gibert receives the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) prize
Marta Gibert receives the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) Prize sponsored by IBM for her research on magnetic coupling at oxide interfaces, particularly in the interface engineering of heterostructures combining nickelates and manganites. The results led to the publications: “Exchange bias in LaNiO3–LaMnO3 superlattices“, M. Gibert, et al., Nature Materials 11, 195 (2012). “Interfacial Control of Magnetic Properties…
Matthias Troyer receives the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Matthias Troyer, ETHZ, has been awarded the 2016 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society, ” for pioneering numerical work in many seemingly intractable areas of quantum many body physics and for providing efficient sophisticated computer codes to the community “. The Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics is awarded by…
Siobhan Mckeown Walker has received a prize at CORPES in Paris
Siobhan Mckeown Walker has been awarded a prize for the best poster presentation at the CORPES conference in Paris, France (5-10 July 2015). CORPES is an international workshop on strong correlations and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Siobhan presented the recent ARPES work of the group Baumberger on the 2DEG at the STO (001) surface and showed the…
Shunsuke Furuya receives The Young scientist award of the Physical Society of Japan
Shunsuke Furuya in the group of Thierry Giamarchi at UNIGE has received theYoung scientist award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 3: magnetism). Every year the JPS presents theYoung scientists awards to young researchers who have made outstanding achievements in their early research careers. Shunsuke will give the award-winning lecture at the end of…
Dirk van der Marel receives the 2016 Frank Isakson Prize
Professor Dirk van der Marel has been awarded the 2016 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids “for insightful experiments and analyses on a wide variety of quantum solids with strong electronic correlations in general, and cuprate superconductors in particular, using optical spectroscopy”. He shares the prize with David Tanner of the University of…
Ievgeniia Nedoliuk won the photo contest of the UNIGE Faculty of Science
Congratulations to Ievgeniia Nedoliuk who won the 1st prize of the photo contest organized by the UNIGE Faculty of Science. The projects have been selected according to the originality of the approach, the quality and the consistency of the pictures. Ievgeniia Nedoliuk explains her work : ” This series of pictures shows a…
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