Materials Science & Engineering @EPFL

Save the Date!
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online

Congratulations to Dr. Sophia Thiele from the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Supramolecular Materials from Sustainable Polyesters: Structure, Dynamics, and Performance" under Prof. Holger Frauenrath's supervision.

Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 16 July 2025 at 11:00
🎙️ Prof. Mark R. Marten, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
🔎 Using a genetic approach to develop mycelial materials
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Barbey-Binggeli from the Laboratory for in situ nanomaterials characterisation with electrons (INE) for successfully defending his PhD thesis under Prof. Vasiliki Tileli's supervision.

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EPFL research is back on the European stage Eight EPFL researchers have been selected by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the 2024 call for proposals for the Advanced Grant competition, including four in the School of Engineering.

🏆 Congratulations to Prof Francesco Stellacci from Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant for his project Engineering Protein Interactions Using Small Molecules

Find out more: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-re...

"Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 12 June 2025 at 17:00
🎙️ Prof. Giovanni M. Pavan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
🔎 From microscopic dynamics to dominant fluctuations to complex emergent behaviors in self-organizing matter
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/talk-f...

“My job is to facilitate the transition from theory to practice” Pierre-Etienne Bourban, recently named the best teacher for 2024 in the materials science section, has 40 years of EPFL under his belt – including 30 as a teacher. He’s just as motivated about his job...

Check the portrait of Dr. Pierre-Etienne Bourban, senior scientist from the LPAC at EPFL and director of the DLL Materials and Bioengineering, who was named best teacher for 2024 in the materials science section.
Thank you Pierre-Etienne for your commitment!
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"Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 5 June 2025 at 9:30
🎙️ Prof. Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania
🔎 Seeing the Hidden Interface: Revealing Nanoscale Mechanisms of Contact, Adhesion, and Wear by in situ Experiments
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

Composites and low carbon with Veronique Michaud, head of the Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites (LPAC) and Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos, head of the Group of Composite Mechanics from the Civil Engineering Institute 👇

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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Shreyas Joglekar from the Laboratory of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Magnonics (LMGN) for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Magnon assisted magnetization reversal in NiFe-YIG hybrid nanostructures” under Prof. Dirk Grundler's supervision.

Don't miss the 11th IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 26 May 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology
🔎 From supramolecular polymers to functional materials and systems
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 22 May 2025 at 13:30
🎙️ Prof. Allison Beese, Penn State University
🔎 Towards adoption of monotonic and graded additively manufactured components
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Huguenin-Dumittan from the Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling @labcosmo.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Mathematical Analysis and Optimization of Features for Atomistic Machine Learning” under Prof. Michele Ceriotti's supervision

"Don't miss the 10th IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 19 May 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Laura Herz from Oxford University, UK
🔎 Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the next IMX Colloquium:
📅 12 May 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Emily Cranston, University of British Columbia Vancouver
🔎 Surface Engineering of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Bioproduct Development
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Yesterday was the third IMX lunch of the year! Many thanks to Martin Luttmann from DQML for his very insightful presentation entitled "PyMoDAQ: Modular Data Acquisition with Python"

Don't miss the eighth IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 5 May 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Anton van der Ven from @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
🔎 First-principles statistical mechanics as applied to Li-ion and Na-ion battery materials
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the seventh IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 28 April 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Dr. Chaoqun Dong from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
🔎 Soft Electronics: Multimaterial Innovations for Wearable and Biomedical Devices
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

📢 We are pleased to invite the @materials-epfl.bsky.social staff to the third IMX lunch of 2025 entitled "PyMoDaq: using Python for FAIR data acquisition"
📅 29 April 2025
⌚️ 12:15-13:15
🎙️ Martin Luttmann from DQML
Registration required: go.epfl.ch/IMXlunchS3E3

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Meet Jaydeepkumar Oza from @empa-materials.bsky.social and EPFL for successfully defending his PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Christian Leinenbach and Prof. Moslem Shahverdi.

Yesterday we welcomed around twenty high school students within the Institute of Materials. Thanks to Claire Blaga and Raphaël Lemerle, from Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials (LMSC), who gave them a presentation on semiconductor materials and their applications.

Don't miss the sixth IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 14 April 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Carl Thompson from MIT
🔎 Morphological Stability of Thin Films and Micro/Nano-Structures
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Laura Roset Julià from the Supramolecular NanoMaterials and Interfaces Laboratory (SuNMIL) for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Proteins as sustainable and recyclable polymers for a circular economy in bioplastics” under Prof. Francesco Stellacci's supervision.

Yesterday, we had the chance to attend an IMX seminar by Prof. Susie Speller from @ox.ac.uk. Many thanks for her insightful presentation entitled "Radiation damage of high temperature superconductors for fusion magnets"
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Don't miss the fifth IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 31 March 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Avi Schroeder from Technion
🔎 Brain-targeted drug delivery systems and AI-generated synthetic biology medications

Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the fourth IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 24 March 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Susie Speller from University of Oxford
🔎 Radiation damage of high temperature superconductors for fusion magnets
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

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Join AAMS 2025 as a sponsor and connect with top industry & academic leaders in Additive Manufacturing!

📅 Sept 3-5, EPFL Neuchâtel (Microcity)

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SNSF Starting Grants Lead your own independent project and research team in Switzerland.

📢 📆 the SNSF Starting Grants call 2026 will be open from 1 February 2026 to 5 May 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

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Yesterday we welcomed a school class to the Institute of Materials as part of visits organized by the EPFL Science Outreach Department. Thanks to Brian Ridenour, Greta Cocchi and François Rivat from SMaL who gave them a fascinating insight into Materials Science and Engineering!

Don't miss the third IMX Colloquium of this spring:
📅 17 March 2025 at 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Davide De Focatiis from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
🔎 New test methods in support of composites manufacturing research: a tale of two fixtures
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...