10 Research Prizes reward EPFL Researchers

Zoom on these awards and their prize-winners 2016:

• ABB Award: created by the house Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., this prize rewards an original scientific work in the domains of energy, production, transport, distribution and the use of energy under all its forms or computing, automatic and telecommunications. This year, this prize was awarded to Marc Esquius Morote for his thesis “Horn Antennas and Dual-Polarized Circuits in Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Technology”.
• Chorafas Award: offered by the Foundation Dimitris. Chorafas since 2001, this prize aims at encouraging exceptional works in the domains of applied research.This year, this prize was granted to Lina Carlini for her research project “Exploring dynamic organellar shape using live-cell fluorescence super-resolution microscopy” and to Michele Tamagnone for his research project “Theory, design and measurement of near-optimal graphene reconfigurable and non-reciprocal devices at terahertz frequencies”.
• EPFL Doctorates Awards: established in 1993 to distinguish the works of doctorates of exceptional quality and arouse vocations of particularly qualified researchers, this prize rewards two candidates having written a remarkable thesis for its originality, the impact of the results and the presentation. This year, this prize was awarded to Ivan Dokmanić for his thesis “Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes: Inverse Problems in Room Acoustics and Beyond”, to Giulia Marino for her thesis "Some Like It Hot ! - Le confort physiologique et ses dispositifs dans l'architecture du XXe siècle : histoire et devenir d'un enjeu majeur" and to Evan Williams for his thesis “A Systems Approach to Identify Genetic and Environmental Regulators of Metabolism”.

• Professor René Wasserman Award: sponsored by the family Wasserman, founder of the group Eutectic-Castolin and TeroLab Service Management SA, it rewards either a Doctoral Thesis or a Post-doctoral Research, undertaken at the EPFL. It aims at distinguishing innovative and high level research in the field of new materials. This year, the prize was awarded to Maria Ricci for her thesis "Characterization of Solid-Liquid Interfaces with High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy".

• University Latsis Prize: offered by the Foundation Latsis Internationale, a non-profit public institution created in 1975, this prize rewards a research work which makes an important contribution and an international innovation in the field of the sciences and of the technology. This year, this prize was awarded to Fabrizio Carbone for his research project “Ultrafast phenomena in solids and nanostructures”.

• Ville de Lausanne Award: attributed every three years at the EPFL, this award distiguished either a Master project or a Doctoral thesis at the EPFL. It rewards innovative and high level research in the exact sciences, natural sciences or biomedical sciences. This year, this prize was awarded to Camilla Baj-Rossi for her thesis "Implantable Multi-panel Platform for Continuous Monitoring of Exogenous and Endogenous Metabolites for Applications in Personalized Medicine".

• ZKS Prize: offered by the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation created in 2005, this prize rewards a post-doctoral research project which makes an important contribution or an international innovation in the field of the sciences of the environment or the technologies having a positive impact on the environment or the sustainable development. This year, this prize was awarded to Wolfgang Tress for his research project “Developing and Understanding Third Generation Solar Cells”.

These prizes are awarded by the EPFL Research Commission; the coordination being assured by the Research Office.

For more details, please visit our webpage: http://go.epfl.ch/awards.