Since January 2020, we try to photograph each PhD student after her or his defense.

Martin Heinrich successfully defended his thesis in September 2025.

Ajmal Roshan successfully defended his thesis in September 2025.
![[Translate to English:] Mitchell Brüderlin hat im August 2025 seine Doktorarbeit erfolgreich verteidigt.](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/3/d/csm_Mitchell_Hat2_7b32fd407d.jpg)
Mitchell Brüderlin successfully defended his thesis in August 2025.
![[Translate to English:] Samuel Treves](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/5/d/csm_Samuel_Treves_20aea1c662.jpg)
Samuel Treves successfully defended his thesis in May 2025.
![[Translate to English:] Antonia Ruffo](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/6/9/csm_Antonia_Ruffo_3dd0a225f5.jpg)
Antonia Ruffo successfully defended her thesis in May 2025.
![[Translate to English:] Schicha Jia](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/9/2/csm_Schichao_Jia_7726c5659c.jpg)
Shichao Jia successfully defended his thesis in February 2025.
![[Translate to English:] Vanni Doffini](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/5/a/csm_Vanni_Doffini_290cc6dff0.jpg)
Vanni Doffini successfully defended his thesis in January 2025.
![[Translate to English:] Gian-Luca Schmid](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/7/e/csm_Gian-Luca_Schmid_c3bd367178.jpg)
Gian-Luca Schmid successfully defended his thesis in November 2024.
![[Translate to English:] Fabian Züger](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/5/1/csm_Fabian_Zueger_b7e5ea7541.jpg)
Fabian Züger successfully defended his doctoral thesis in December 2024.
![[Translate to English:] Maria-Elisenda Alaball Pujol](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/5/f/csm_Maria_Pujol_902f5aee05.jpg)
Maria-Elisenda Alaball Pujol successfully defended her doctoral thesis in July 2024.
![[Translate to English:] Annika Huber](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/2/e/csm_Annika_Huber_85051e131b.jpg)
Annika Huber successfully defended her doctoral thesis in July 2024.
![[Translate to English:] Josh Zuber](https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/b/2/csm_Josh_Zuber_PhD_a6aef171d0.jpg)
Josh Zuber successfully defended his doctoral thesis in June 2024.

Moritz Weegen successfully defended his doctoral thesis in June 2024.

Melissa Carrillo successfully defended her doctoral thesis in June 2024.

Jacopo Oswald successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in November 2023.

David Jäger successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in September 2023.

Claudio Alter successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in September 2023.

Toshiya Kozai successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in June 2023.

Joanan Lopez Morales successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in June 2023.

Jann Ungerer successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in December 2022.

Lukas Sponfeldner successfuly defended his doctoral thesis in November 2022.

Alexina Ollier successfully defended her doctoral thesis in November 2022.

Shubham Singh successfully defended his doctoral thesis in September 2022.

Mehdi Heydari successfully defended his doctoral thesis in August 2022.

Thomas Mortelmans successfully defended his doctoral thesis in July 2022.

Mehdi Ramezani successfully defended his doctoral thesis in February 2022.

Lukas Gubser successfully defended his doctoral thesis in December 2021.

Pooja Thakkar successfully defended her doctoral thesis in August 2021.

Luc Driencourt successfully defended his doctoral thesis in July 2021.

Stefano Di Leone and Shabnam Tarvirdipour both successfully defended their doctoral theses in July 2021.

Deepika Sharma successfully defended her doctoral thesis in June 2021.

Wojciech Szmyt successfully defended his doctoral thesis in November 2020.

Paolo Oliva successfully defended his doctoral thesis in June 2020 - the first SNI doctoral student to do so virtually.

Thomas Karg successfully defended his doctoral thesis in March 2020.

David Bracher successfully defended his doctoral thesis in January 2020.

Lujun Wang successfully completed his doctoral thesis in January 2020.