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Aug 16, 2024 Congratulations to Elias & Ronny!

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Congratulations to Elias and Ronny on successfully completing their apprenticeships as Physics Laboratory Technician VET and achieving the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (Engineering, Architecture, Life Sciences)! We're proud of your accomplishments and excited to see what you'll achieve in the future.

Aug 14, 2024 Welcome to Lucia & Miro!

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Welcome to our new Physics Laboratory Technician apprentices, Lucia and Miro! We're excited to have you join our team. We hope you'll enjoy your time here and learn a lot during your apprenticeship. Best wishes for a successful and enjoyable experience!

Aug 05, 2024 Welcome Rasmus

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We are delighted to welcome Rasmus to our Nanomaterials Spectroscopy and Imaging group. We wish him a successful and enjoyable stay as he investigates the synthesis-structure-function relations of inorganic chalcogenide perovskites.

Mar 03, 2024 Welcome Angel & Alex

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This month, a warm welcome to our two new team members from Spain who will be working with Mira Dimitrievska!

Welcome to Angel, who already has a strong foundation in our lab after completing his Master's thesis here. He's now excited to continue his research journey with us by pursuing his PhD.

Axel: Welcome to Axel, a PhD student in his final year and academic guest with us, who will be researching the application of Raman spectroscopy to solar cells.

Feb. 08, 2024 Belated welcome to Riya!

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We are happy to announce Dr. Riya Sebait joined our lab and lab 205 in January to work on a joint project. Welcome, Dr. Sebait!

Feb 02, 2024 Welcome to Andrea

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Welcome to Andrea Moschettini to our laboratory! Wishing you a smooth start, tons of awesome discoveries, and an epic research journey ;-)

Jan 15, 2024 Welcome to Alessandro

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Welcome to Alessandro Paniz who has just joined the lab. He will be working on his PhD on quantum heat engines.

Jan 11, 2024 Congratulations to Gökhan

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Congratulations to Dr. Kara on successfully defending your PhD thesis "Hybrid Phototransistors: Understanding the IR Photoactive Interface"!

 

Dec 11, 2023 Congratulations to Talia

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Congratulations to Dr. Bergaglio on successfully defending your PhD thesis on "Chemical effects on blood studied using label-free nanoscale analytics"!

Nov 27, 2023 Congratulations to Mira

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Congratulations, Mira, on receiving the prestigious Prix Haenny 2023! The citation on the award reads "For her pioneering works in the area of spectroscopy that enable better understanding of novel materials, as well as for her enthusiasm in supervision of students, and her creativity in outreach activities."

Nov 15, 2023 Congratulation to Jacopo

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Congratulations to Jacopo Dr. Oswald for successfully defending your PhD thesis "Graphene-Organic Interfaces for Vertical Electronic Devices"

Nov 14, 2023 Congratulations to Yanis & Silvio

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Congratulations to our Apprentices Silvio & Yanis for receiving "Preis der Jury" and "Teilnehmerpreis" for their Projcet "Singing Tesla Coil" at this years Lehrlingswettbewerb Züri-Oberland!

Nov 02, 2023 Welcome Tingyuan

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We welcome Tingyuan Wang to our team as a  Master Student from EPFL. Tingyuan will be working on the synthesis of ultra-long graphene nanoribbons for device applications through chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

Sept 08, 2023 Welcome to Lily

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Welcome, Dr. Lily Henry! Our lab is excited to have you join us in our research on neurodegenerative diseases.

Sept 08, 2023 Welcome to Nico

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Welcome to our lab, Dr. Nico Kummer! We are excited to have you join our research on the aggregation of proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease.

Sept 01, 2023 Welcome to Nicola

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Dr. Nicola Curreli has joined our laboratory as a postdoc for his Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship project "2DTWIST,". Welcome!

July 10, 2023 Success in Apprenticeship

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Congratulations to Sofie and Nick for successfully finishing their apprenticeship as Physics Laboratory Technician VET and obtaining the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (Engineering, Architecture, Life Sciences)!

June 22, 2023 Best Poster Award

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Congratulations to Ángel Labordet for winning the Best Poster Award at the Raman Workshop 2023, that took place at ETH Zurich. Angel is investigating phonons and phonon-carrier interactions in 1D graphene nanoribbons for his MSc thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mirjana Dimitrievska and Dr. Gabriela Borin Barin. 

June 21, 2023 1st Prize for Best Poster

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Congratulations to Wenhao for getting the first prize for best poster at Swiss nanoconvention 2023!

June 8, 2023 Welcome to Pablo

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Welcome to Pablo Bastante from IFIMAC and ICMM-CSIC! He will spend rest of the year with us as academic guest :-)

June 01, 2023 Welcome to Tero

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Welcome to Dr. Tero Kulmala who has just joined the lab. He will be working on nanofabrication of devices with low-dimensional nanomaterials and on reliability and failure analysis of electronics.

April 25, 2023 Congratulations to Nick & Sofie

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Congratulations to Sofie and Nick for receiving the "excellent" rating for their project on plastic separation using terahertz radiation at the 57th National Competition of Swiss Youth in Science! 

April 10, 2023 Welcome to David

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Welcome to David Gryc, who is working on his master project on Nanoscopy of graphene and twisted graphene under THz regime, under the supervision of Elena Mavrona.

April 03, 2023 Welcome to Bhaskar

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Bhaskar Ghawri just joined our Quantum Devices Group and will work on graphene nanoribbons and explore their electric and thermoelectric properties. Welcome!

March 03, 2023 Welcome to Sophie

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Welcome to Sophie Hardmeier, who is working on her master thesis project on chemical effects on blood clots using nanoscale analytics, under the supervision of Peter Nirmalraj.

March 01, 2023 Welcome to Angel

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Welcome to Angel Labordet Álvarez, who is working on his master project with Phonon Anharmonicities in 9-Atom Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons, under the supervision of Mira Dimitrievska.

March 01, 2023 Welcome to Alex

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Welcome to Alex Weitnauer, who is working on his master project on Flexible THz Detectors from Twisted Bilayer Graphene, under the supervision of Eleni Mavrona.

 

Nov 21, 2022 Congratulations to Lars!

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Congratulations to Dr. Lars Lüder for your successfull PhD-defense!

Nov 14, 2022 Congratulations to Mira

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Congratulations to Dr. Mirjana Dimitrievska for the honor to be selected as the 2022 USERN laureate in the field of physical and chemical science!

Nov 14, 2022 Congratulations to Nick & Sofie

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Congratulations to our Apprentices Sofie & Nick for receiving "Preis der Jury" and "Teilnehmerpreis" from this years Lehrlingswettbewerb Züri-Oberland!

Nov 07, 2022 Welcome to Peter!

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Welcome to Peter in our Lab!

We hope you enjoy your PhD time with us =)

Oct 26, 2022 Alumni Event

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On 29th September, we celebrated 25 years of educating physic laboratory technicians apprentices in a homecoming day for our alumni. Thanks to Dominik & Sofie for organizing.

Oct. 25, 2022 Welcome to Lorenzo

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Welcome Lorenzo to our team! 

Oct 10., 2022 Welcome to new apprentices

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Welcome to our new physics laboratory apprentices Hazir and Samuel. They joined our lab for their apprenticeship as physics laboratory technician in august 2022.

Oct 03., 2022 Welcome to Mirjana :-)

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Dr Mirjana Dimitrievska joins the laboratory as a new group leader on Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging within the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Lab.

Sept. 13, 2022 Best Poster Award

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Congratulations to Gökhan for getting another poster award, this time at Swiss ePrint!

Sept. 12, 2022 1st price PhD Video Pitch Contest Dept 040

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Congratulations to Lars for getting the first price at Empa Dept 040 PhD Video Pitch Contest !

Sept. 08, 2022 Present at SwissSkills

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Thanks to Dominik, Nick & Sofie for helping out at this weeks SwissSkills 2022 booth for the Physics Laboratory Technician

Sept. 06, 2022 Welcome to Frederik

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Frederik Van Veen just joined our Quantum Device team to work for his PhD on Prof. Dr. Mickael Perrin's ERC project, developing a particle exchange heat engine. Welcome to the lab!

Jul 14, 2022 René Hornung Price

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Congratulations to Arno Römmeler, former PhD-student of our group measurement technology, for getting the René-Hornung-Price 2021 of the Swiss society for nondestructive testing (SGZP) for his project "Air coupled ultrasonic defect detection in thin walled polymer specimens with Lamb waves".

 

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