Six Ambizione grants awarded to EPFL

Congratulations to Jonathan Dong, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Valentin Goblot, Jinggang Lan, Andrea Merli and Giuseppe Zuccarello for winning a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione grant each!

Ambizione supports outstanding postdoctoral researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead their own independent research project at a Swiss higher education institution. Researchers 1-4 years after their PhD are eligible to apply. The grant covers the grantee's salary, personnel, equipment cost and other project-related funds for up to 4 years.

As the name implies, Ambizione (ambition) helps excellent researchers take their career to the next level! It contributes to build their scientific profile and it helps them become scientifically self-reliant at an early stage.

This year, of the 435 applications received, the SNSF has awarded 97 new Ambizione grants.

Six of these have gone to EPFL-affiliated researchers:

• Jonathan Dong - Harnessing randomness for single-shot quantitative phase imaging– STI, IEM, Biomedical Imaging Group;
• Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez - AData-Driven Computational Friction- ENAC, IIC, Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory;
• Valentin Goblot - A Superconductor-Spin Hybrid Quantum System for Quantum Simulation- SB, IPHYS, Galland Group;
• Jinggang Lan - Computational Electrochemistry: Towards the Understanding of Electrolytes at the Molecular Level -SB, IPHYS, Chair of Atomic Scale Simulation;
• Andrea Merli - RNovel Experimental Procedure to Test the existence of Unobserved right-handed
  NEutrinos (NEPTUNE)- SB, IPHYS, High Energy Physics Laboratory;
• Giuseppe Zuccarello- Enantioselective Hydrogen Atom Abstraction - Rapid Access to Stereochemical
  Complexity through Catalyst Design- SB, ISIC, Laboratory of Asymmetric Catalysis and Synthesis;