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New principle for antibody tests: Thomas Mortelmans receives the Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award
Dr. Thomas Mortelmans, a former doctoral student at the SNI PhD School, was presented with one of five PhD Awards at the Swiss NanoConvention 2022. He received the award, which is sponsored by Sensirion, in recognition of a first-author…
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Ending her doctoral dissertation on a high: Alexina Ollier receives an award for her presentation
Former SNI doctoral student Alexina Ollier has been presented with the Young Researcher Award at the International Vacuum Congress 2022 in Sapporo (Japan). She received the award, which is sponsored by Canon Anelva Corporation, for her…
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Nano Image Award 2022
We received a particularly large number of beautiful images this year and would like to thank everyone who participated in the contest. It was not easy to choose the three most beautiful images and we will try to use as many images as…
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Nadine Leisgang and Thomas Karg win SPS Awards for their PhD theses
The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) awards prizes to young physicists for outstanding research in the early stages of their careers. In 2022, two former PhD students of the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute have…/ News, Preise, SNI INSight
Superconducting metamaterial for analog quantum simulation – Vera Weibel studies an artificial material with special properties
Vera Weibel wrote her prizewinning master’s thesis at EPFL under Professor Pasquale Scarlino, having studied a superconducting metamaterial — an artificial material with properties that do not occur in nature. A material of this kind could…
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Precise data on tiny magnets – Mathias Claus has developed a sensor that can be used to analyze the magnetism of tiny magnet
For his prizewinning master’s project in Professor Martino Poggio’s group at the Department of Physics of the University of Basel, Mathias Claus developed a torsion rocker that can be used to study the magnetization of tiny magnets in…
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ERC Consolidator Grants for SNI members
Theoretical foundations for future quantum technologies The project of Professor Jelena Klinovaja addresses challenges in the field of topological quantum matter. So-called topological qubits could be suitable to reliably encode…
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Winner of the Nano Image Awards 2021
Many thanks for your participation and congratulations to the winners.
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Forgotten data: A dry subject presented in an exciting way awarded the Prix Média
Simone Pengue has won the 2021 “Prix Média Newcomer” from the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences for his documentary on lost data. Simone is a PhD student in the research group of Argovia professor Roderick Lim. In addition to his own…