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Professor Thomas Jung
Professor Thomas Jung is a man of many talents. He is an honorary professor at the University of Basel and runs research groups at the Paul Scherrer Institute and the University of Basel. His research activities range from applied research…
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An Excellent and Socially Engaged Researcher
Peter Rickhaus, until recently a doctoral student in Professor Christian Schönenberger’s group, received the Metrology prize from the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) in September for his work on electron transport in graphene. However, the…
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Sara Freund Receives Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in 2014
Sara Freund has won the prize for the best Master’s thesis in nanoscale science at the University of Basel. This is the second time the prize has been awarded. The young French scientist, who earned her Bachelor’s in Strasbourg and came to…
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Professor Uwe Pieles
Most SNI members know Professor Uwe Pieles, who is based in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). He has been actively involved in all SNI activities ever since the institute was…
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ascinated by Playing with Individual Atoms
Even at school, Sylwia Nowakowska was fascinated by the idea of controlling individual atoms. Today, as a doctoral student at the Nanolab run by Professor Thomas Jung, this is exactly what she’s doing. She condenses xenon atoms in quantum…
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Marcel Mayor, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel
Marcel Mayor is a chemist through and through. He is fascinated by chemical compounds, especially by those that do not exist yet or have unusual structures and need years to be synthesized. His goal is to achieve a great complexity and to…