Materials Science & Engineering @EPFL

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 9 March 2026
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Alessandra Lanzara, UC Berkeley, USA
🔎 Switching the Quantum World
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

A New Reference Model for Machine-Learning–Driven Materials Discovery - EPFL AI Center Researchers at EPFL’s Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO) have reached a significant milestone in material science, reaching the top position on Matbench Discovery, the leading be...

🧑‍🚀 Filippo, Arslan and Paolo doing some PET talk with our friends at the @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social ai.epfl.ch/a-new-refere...

The future is built with better materials! Curious about a Master’s in Materials Science & Engineering? Discover what’s possible at EPFL during the Master Info Days on Feb 25–26
memento.epfl.ch/event/master...

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Stella Laperrousaz from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) of for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Development of soft electronic and optoelectronic fiber-based devices via the thermal drawing process” under Prof. Fabien Sorin supervision

Sustainable thermal paper formulation using lignocellulosic biomass fractions Safer and more sustainable thermal paper formulations made from nonedible biomass are introduced.

💡A great example of how materials science can clean up everyday products by Prof. Harm-Anton Klok (LP) and Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher (LSCP)!
📄 Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔗 EPFL news: actu.epfl.ch/news/safer-r...

Join the next IMX talk
🗓️ Thursday, 8 January 2026 at 15:00
🎙️ Dr. Christian Leinenbach, EMPA and EPFL
🔎 From Powder to Performance: Microstructure Engineering in Metal Additive Manufacturing for Advanced Applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Eva Baur from the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMaL) for successfully defending her PhD thesis “From the design to the characterization of granular elastomers for 3D printing applications” under the supervision of Prof. Esther Amstad.

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dirk Grundler, head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Magnonics (LMGN) on his promotion to Full Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering!
More info: actu.epfl.ch/news/nominat...

🎓 Last Friday, we celebrated the Bachelor graduation ceremony for our Materials Science & Engineering students! Congratulations to all 33 graduates!
Special recognition to Aurelien Curti for the prize for the highest Bachelor’s average and a big thank to the Enigma association for the organization.

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Nicola Marzari, head of the Laboratory of Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and director of NCCR-MARVEL on receiving this prize!
Read more: nccr-marvel.ch/news/awards/...

🎓 From 19–21 November, EPFL hosted its Info Days! High school students discovered the Materials Science section through presentations, info booths, and hands-on workshops.

Thank you for your enthusiasm, we look forward to seeing you next year!

Join the next IMX-IPHYS talk
🗓️ Friday, 28 November 2025 at 14:15
🎙️ Prof. Angela Pitenis, UCSB, USA
🔎 Surface Physics of Soft Materials
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/surfac...

Join us for the IMX/ISIC Colloquium
🗓️ Wednesday, November, 19 2025 🕐 16:15
🎙️ Prof. Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley USA
🔎 Semiconductor nanowire building blocks: from gate-all-around transistors, nanolasers to photochemical diodes
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/specia...

“I would be my own worst student” Francesco Stellacci likes teaching all kinds of things. With his effective yet unpretentious manner, he won the 2025 best teacher award for the materials science and engineering section. He lists two ...

Check out the portrait of Prof. Francesco Stellacci, from the Supramolecular NanoMaterials and Interfaces Laboratory (SuNMIL), who has been named the best teacher for 2025 in the materials science section.
Thank you Francesco for your commitment!
👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/i-would...

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Michele Zendrini from LMSC for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Engineering GaAs nanostructures for heterointegration with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides” under Prof. @i_morral and Dr. Valerio Piazza supervision

✨ EDMX events
🥐 Welcome Breakfast – 11.11.2025, followed by an information meeting for new doctoral students
🍽️ Eat&Meet – 25.11.2025, 12:15 PM
A buffet-lunch information meeting for Master students
🎄 EDMX Christmas Lunch – 11.12.2025
More details 👉 go.epfl.ch/EDMX_event

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Nicola Marzari on receiving the 2026 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Material Physics from the American Physical Society!
Read more here: actu.epfl.ch/news/nicola-...

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Francesca Bono from the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMaL) for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Additive manufacturing of bio-inspired functional granular hydrogels: from soft to mineral-based composites" under Prof. Esther Amstad's supervision.

Electronic fibres via the thermal drawing of liquid-metal-embedded elastomers - Nature Electronics A thermal drawing method can be used to create stretchable electronic fibres from a liquid-metal-embedded elastomer that can contain conductive and insulating domains across the fibre cross-section.

💡Exciting innovation from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices! Prof. Fabien Sorin and his team have developed a innovative stretchable electronic fiber. Read more in Nature Electronics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟The IMX Colloquium is underway! Exciting discussions, cutting-edge research, and inspiring talks are happening every Monday at the IMX Colloquium. Don’t miss out and check out the complete program 👇

✨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
🔗 sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello...

🎓 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.
👉 lnkd.in/enNeKmTh

🎓 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...