Two SNSF Ambizione grants awarded in Physics
Elisabeth Agoritsas, Michel De Cian
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded Ambizione grants to two young researchers to perform their own projects within the Institute of Physics (IPHYS).
The highly selective Ambizione program is aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution. The awarded projects are funded for a maximum of four years. This year, these grants will allow two talented researchers to join the Institute of Physics:
Elisabeth Agoritsas, presently a postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (France), will join the PCSL to perform her project “Field-theoretical approaches for the plasticity in sheared amorphous materials”. She will study generically the response of 'structurally disordered systems' — such as foams, emulsions, or metallic glasses —submitted to an external mechanical deformation, in the context of the statistical physics of out-of-equilibrium disordered systems.
Michel De Cian, presently a postdoc at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), will join the LPHE to perform his project “Probing right-handed currents in quark flavour physics”. He will investigate how certain types of subatomic particles transform into each other, and what role the handedness of the involved particles plays.
See also the full list of winners.