8 Research Prizes reward EPFL Researchers

Zoom on these awards and their 2024 prize-winners:

• 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 Stanislav Sergeev for his thesis “Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption”.
• 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 Rishabh Iyer for his research project “Latency Interfaces for Systems Code” and to Alireza Modirshanechi for his research project “Seeking the new, learning from the unexpected: Computational models of surprise and novelty in the brain”.
• EPFL Doctorate Awards: established in 1993 to distinguish the works of doctorates of exceptional quality and arouse vocations of particularly qualified researchers, this prize rewards three candidates having written a remarkable thesis for its originality, the impact of the results and the presentation. This year, this prize was awarded to Seyed Mahmood Hamze-Ziabari for his thesis “Unravelling submesoscale processes associated with meso- and basin-scale gyres in Lake Geneva” and to Samuel Mendes Leitão for his thesis “Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy”.
• Gilbert Hausmann Award: this prize rewards a PhD student having completed an EPFL PhD thesis in the field of mechanical engineering, electricity or physics. The prize-winning project should stand out through its excellence, particularly in terms of originality and the prospects which it opens. This year, the prize was awarded to Guilherme Migliato Marega for his thesis “2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing”.
• 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 Giulia Tagliabue for her research project “Light-to-X: Redefining Energy Transport and Conversion with Nanophotonics”.
• ZKS Award: 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 Nils Rädecker for his research project “Metabolic regulation of the cnidarian-algal symbiosis”.

These prizes have been awarded by the EPFL Research Awards Commission.

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During this event, the Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Foundation Prize was awarded to Dr. Dimitrios Terzis.