8 Research Prizes reward EPFL Researchers
10 young EPFL researchers have been rewarded for their research projects this year again. These prizes are offered by Foundations and EPFL.
Zoom on these awards and their prize-winners 2017:
- 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 Carlos Morales Guio for his thesis “Coupling of electrocatalysts to photoabsorbers for solar fuels production”.
- Chorafas Awards: 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 Edoardo Baldini for his research project “Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting and Correlated Quantum Systems” and to KonradDomanski for his research project “The Quest for Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells: Understanding Degradation Mechanisms and Improving the Lifetimes”.
- IBM Research Award: given by IBM Research GmbH Zurich Research Laboratory, this prize rewards a doctoral thesis or a project of Master's degree of EPFL which distinguishes itself in the domains of the engineering and the science at the level of the modelling and of the simulation. This year, this prize was awarded to Andrea Cepellottifor his thesis “Thermal transport in low dimensions”.
- Gilbert Hausmann Award: 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, this prize was granted to Jun Shintake for his thesis “Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers”.
- 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 Priscilla Briquez for her thesis “Therapeutic Proteins Engineered for Super-Affinity to the Extracellular Matrix in Regenerative Medicine” and to Jiandong Feng for his thesis "Probing chemical structures and physical processes with nanopores".
- 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 Michael Saliba for his research project "Highly stable and efficient perovskite solar cells via multication engineering ".
- 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 Clément Hongler for his research project “Statistical Mechanics and Conformal Field Theory: an Ising Model Perspective”.
- 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 Heather Bischel for her research project “Eliminating barriers to sustainable sanitation through safe nutrient recovery from human urine”.
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.