Seven SNSF Sinergia projects awarded to EPFL researchers

The SNSF Sinergia programme supports joint projects of two to four scientists from different disciplines whose aim is to conduct ground-breaking research. The SNSF Scientific Board approved the following EPFL affiliated projects:

• From Farm to Fork and beyond: A Systemic Approach for Implementing True Cost Accounting for Food in Switzerland (TRUE-COST)

Participating institutions: UNIL, HES-SO, EPFL (Prof. Philippe Thalmann), School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Bern

Responsible institution: UNIL

• RADICALS - Rationally Designed Thin Contact Layers enabling Large-Scale Perovskite-on-Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics

Participating institutions: EPFL, Kaunas University of Technology, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, ETHZ

Responsible institution: EPFL (Prof. Christophe Ballif)

• ImMuNet: Decoding the Immunological Microtubule Network

Participating institutions: EPFL, University of Geneva, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, University of Fribourg

Responsible institution: EPFL (Prof. Beat Fierz)

• Bio-inspired fabrication of strong and tough polymer fibers

Participating institutions: EPFL, McGill University

Responsible institution: EPFL (Prof. Esther Amstad and Prof. Harm-Anton Klok)

• Resolving Accretion Disks with Quantum Optics

Participating institutions:University of Geneva, EPFL (Prof. Edoardo Charbon), University of Zürich, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Canarias, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Responsible institution: University of Geneva

• Plasmonic nanoparticle-enhanced near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes

Participating institutions:EMPA, EPFL (Prof. Olivier Martin), ETHZ

Responsible institution: EMPA

• LION: Large Intelligent Optical Networks

Participating institutions: EPFL, Sorbonne University, ETHZ, University of Franche-Comté

Responsible institution: EPFL (Prof. Christophe Moser and Prof. Colin Jones)

Congratulations to all the grant recipients.