Simon Moser, PhD candidate in the group of Marco Grioni, EPFL, won the european PhD competition organized in Cardiff by the HEPTech, the high energy physics technology transfer network, with his project “Direct Oxide Lithography”. His prize is a funded trip around the UK visiting companies, investors and funders to see how will be secured…

Congratulations to Jennifer Fowlie who won the FameLab national final on May 9, 2014. This success qualified her for the international final that took place June 3 – 9, 2014 in Cheltenham (UK), where she competed against 23 FameLab finalists from countries all over the world. The FameLab competition aims at discovering new faces in the Swiss…

During the Graphene Week 2014 in Gothenburg, Sweden (23-27 June 2014), Sandra Šopić has been awarded a prize in recognition of the best presentation. She presented the  Interplay between microscopic decoherence and superconducting proximity effect in a graphene Andreev interferometer. This prize awards “research and projects by early-stage researchers created within the framework of their PhD…

For his pioneering research in the field of theoretical solid state physics, Prof. Antoine Georges was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, which is jointly awarded by the Joachim Herz Stiftung and the Hamburg Center  for Ultrafast imaging (CUI). Prof. Georges` work opens up an understanding of how the properties of materials, such as…

Johan Chang  at Paul Scherrer Institute received the European Lewy-Bertaut Prize 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the quest for understanding cuprate superconductors. Read more

Jill Guyonnet, University of Geneva, was awarded the Jean Würth Award for best PhD thesis 2013 for her excellent PhD work, supervised by Prof. Patrycja Paruch, exploring the rich fundamental physics and novel functionalities of ferroelectric domain walls by atomic force microscopy. Jill also received the FNSF Early-Postdoc Mobility Fellowship.

Baptiste Hildebrand, University of Fribourg, P. Aebi group, obtained the Vigener 2013 Prize for his Master work entitled «Introduction aux fonctions de Green en seconde quantification ainsi qu’aux techniques de microscopie et spectroscopie tunnel: Application à l’étude du 1T-TiSe2».

Carmine Senatore, University of Geneva, obtained an SNSF professorship grant with a project focused on the development of superconductors from the fundamental level to the practical implementation. His appointment as Professor at UNIGE started in May 2013. Read more

Congratulations to Iris Crassee, University of Geneva, in the group of  Dirk van der Marel, who was awarded with the SPS 2013 Prize in Applied Physics for her excellent PhD work, supervised by Dr. Alexey Kuzmenko, on magneto-optical properties of graphene and the discovery of giant Faraday rotation in the terahertz range in single and multilayer…