Jan 18, 2022 Mickael awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Dr. Mickael L. Perrin wants to build tiny power plants from graphene nanoribbons that generate electricity from heat. His ambitious project won him one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants from the EU and one of the 32 Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). He will take up an assistant professorship at ETH Zurich – and continue his research at Empa. Press release.
Dec 14, 2021 Diagnosis during flight
Together with teams from England and Germany, Empa researchers around Erwin Hack developed a monitoring system for aircraft components. In the future, minor damage could be detected and monitored during flight without the aircraft having to go into the hangar for maintenance. This will reduce operating costs and increase safety at the same time. More info.
Jan 04, 2022 Jordan received the award for best PhD thesis
Dr. Jordan Bouaziz has received the award for the best PhD thesis in "Societal issue: Information and Digital Society" by INSA Lyon.
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Nov 30, 2021 Congratulation to Olena!
Congratulations to Dr. Synhaivska to your successful Ph.D. defense today, entitled “Sensing metal ions-peptide and protein interfacial interactions”. =)
Nov 19, 2021 Congrats to Dominik, Jian and Ivan for the new IRC projects!
Three IRC projects have been granted today. The titles are: "Gate-Defined Quantum Confinement in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene", "Agile Robots for Tomorrow's Lab" and "Towards Metamaterial Quantum Dot Hybrids for Mechanically Tuneable Infrared Detectors"
Nov 17, 2021 Congratulations Mickael!
Congratulations to Dr. Mickael Perrin for being awarded a SNSF Eccellenza Grant!
Nov 8, 2021 Congratulation Yves!
Congratulations to Dr. Mermoud for your successfull PhD defense!
Oct 01, 2021 Welcome to Alessia
Alessia Romio from Polytecnico di Milano joined our lab for her masterproject "Vertical hetero-structures for organic electronics" with Jacopo Oswald. Welcome to our group and we wish you a joyful and productive winter-time :-)
Sept 29, 2021 Welcome to Samuel
Samuel Singh, master student from RWTH Aachen started his project in the beginning of the month and will stay with us until february. He will work on a project in Machine learning with Mickael Perrin. Welcome to our group!
Sept 27, 2021 Detecting dementia in blood
The recent work by Dr. Peter Nirmalraj in collaboration with Dr. Th. Schneider and Dr. A. Felbecker (Kantonsspital St.Gallen) paves the way towards a blood-based detection of Alzheimer's disease. See the publication and press release.