Materials Science & Engineering @EPFL

✨Are you a driven Master’s student passionate about Materials Science? Join one of the cutting-edge research labs at EPFL’s Institute of Materials (IMX) for a 6-month Master project.
Choose a lab and apply!
🗓️ MX Fellowship applications are open until November 1
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🎓 Congrats to Dr. Hritwick Banerjee from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) for successfully defending his PhD thesis “
Functional Soft Fibers and Textiles: Multi-Material Approaches for Actuation and Sensing” under Prof. Fabien Sorin's supervision.

Aerial view of the EPFL campus

Are you or do you know a smart, motivated Master student in a materials-adjacent area interested in doing a research project at EPFL? The @materials-epfl.bsky.social MX Fellowship applications open today sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello.... Choose a lab, send your file, and spend up to six months at EPFL!

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Matthieu Wendling from the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials - LMOM for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Hierarchical Structure and Phase Behavior of Supramolecular Elastomers” under Prof. Holger Frauenrath's supervision

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 13 October 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Ingrid Graz, Linz School of Education, Austria
🔎 Smart by Nature: Bio-Inspired sensors and actuators
Find out more: lnkd.in/eysPGHrE

🎓 Huge congratulations to our 42 graduates who received their Master’s degrees last Saturday at the Magistrale!
We are proud of all our graduates.

Thank you for being part of our community, and we wish you every success in your next chapter!

🌍 EPFL’s Institute of Materials (IMX) is offering 6-month funded fellowships for external Master’s students in Materials Science.
Join one of IMX’s world-class labs and gain hands-on research experience at the cutting edge of materials science.
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🎓 Congrats to Dr. Huixin Guo (LMGN) on defending her PhD thesis “Additive Manufacturing and Exploration of Three-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Nanonetworks for 3D Magnonics and 3D Spintronics” with Prof. Dirk Grundler. Nominated for the Thesis Distinction Award!

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Calixe Bénier from the Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry (TIC) Group for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Lubrication of the watch pivot contact: a multi-physics approach” under Dr. Stefano Mischler's supervision.

Join the next IMX talk
🗓️ Wednesday, 1 October 2025 at 10:15
🎙️ Dr. Marios H. Michael, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
🔎 Interlayer coherence at room temperature in high Tc cuprates and photo-induced superconductivity
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 29 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Jörg F. Löffler, Department of Materials, ETHZ, Switzerland
🔎 Ultrahigh-purified lean magnesium alloys for bioresorbable implant applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

👏 Congratulations to Prof. @micheleceriotti.bsky.social (@labcosmo.bsky.social) and Prof. Roland Logé (LMTM)
on their promotion to Full Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering!
More info: actu.epfl.ch/news/appoint...

Don't miss the next IMX talk:
🗓️ Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 16:00
🎙️ Dr. Laura Porath from ESPCI, Paris, France
🔎 Viscoelasticity and Applications of Self-Healing Polymers
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

Don't miss the next IMX talk:
🗓️ Friday, 19 September 2025 at 12:00
🎙️ Prof. Véronique Michaud
🔎 Sustainability driven composite materials development
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

Join us for the IMX Colloquium - Fall 2025
🗓️ Monday, 15 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. John Kolinski, Engineering Mechanics of Soft lnterfaces, EPFL
🔎 Defects in cracks and contact: enhancing toughness and suppressing wetting
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

🚀 What an inspiring three days! The Alloys for Additive Manufacturing 2025 symposium in Neuchâtel co-organized by EPFL and EMPA has just wrapped up.
With 170 participants from around the world, the symposium sparked exciting discussions on the latest advances in metal additive manufacturing.

🎓 Welcome to all our new Bachelor’s and Master’s students in Materials Science! We wish you an exciting academic journey and hope this new chapter will be filled with discovery, growth, and success.

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Melis Özkan for successfully defending her PhD thesis (nominated for the Best thesis award) “Development of Small Molecule Heparin Glycomimetics for Applications in Nerve Regeneration Therapies” under Prof. Stellacci and Prof. Micera supervision.

Don't miss the next IMX talks on Sep 8 at 13:15 & 14:15

🎙️ Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Micro electro-mechanical physiological systems (MEMPhyS)

🎙️ Prof. Achilleas Savva, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Reverse Engineering the Nervous System with Biohybrid Electronics

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Antonios Baganis from EMPA for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Fabrication of Multi-Material and Functionally Graded Metal Structures with Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing Methods” under the supervision of Dr. Christian Leinenbach.

Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 September 1 at 11:00
🎙️ Prof. Christopher Hutchinson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University
🔎 Strengthening and strain hardening from solute clusters in Aluminium alloys
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

Register before August 29!
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings @Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugu...

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...