EDMX Awards laureates

SVMT Doctoral Student Prize 2024

Dr. Wei-Hsu Hu

Shortwave Infrared-Sensitive, Narrowband Organic Upconversion Devices with a Gain

2023 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Dr. Gabriele Pasquale

Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials

SVMT Doctoral Student Prize 2023

Dr. Luciano Borasi

Bringing casting to microfabrication: processing and deformation of microcastings

2023 Materials Science Award (ex-Wasserman)

Dr. Alvaro Charlet

Mechanical Reinforcement of Hydrogels through Physical Crosslinks and Double Network Granular Architecture

2023 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Dr. Irene Ferretto

Laser powder bed fusion of Fe-based shape memory alloys for novel structural metamaterials and “smart” structures – (on picture with her thesis director Prof. Christian Leinenbach)

Dr. Robin Girod

Multidimensional Electron Imaging of Catalyst Layer Materials

Dr. Matteo Hirsch

Controlling the Microstructure and Composition of 3D Printed Soft Load-Bearing Hydrogels

2022 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Dr. Kewen Lei

Mechanical Immunoengineering of T Cells for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Dr. Tzu-Hsien Shen

Electron probing of oxygen-evolving oxide catalysts

Dr. Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

2D Material Based Inks For Room Temperature Printed Electronics

2022 EPFL Doctorate Award

Dr. Simoncelli Michele

Thermal transport beyond Fourier, and beyond Boltzmann

2022 Wasserman Award

Dr. Richard Inès

Ultimate feature sizes in thermally drawn fibers: from fundamental analysis to functional fibers

2021 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Korbinian Baumgärtl

Magnonic crystals with reconfigurable magnetic defects for spin-based microwave electronics

Andreas Leber

Soft functional fibers for mechanical sensing and actuation

Jian Wang

Functional and Responsive Polymers via Controlled Radical Polymerization

2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award

Dr. Andreas Leber

Soft functional fibers for mechanical sensing and actuation

2021 Wasserman Award

Dr. Antimo Marrazzo

Electronic Structure and Topology of Novel Materials

2021 IBM Research Award

Dr. Pablo Miguel Piaggi

Entropy as a tool for crystal discovery

2020 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Martin Friedl

Scalable Nanowire Networks: Growth and Functionality

Antimo Marrazzo

Electronic Structure and Topology of Novel Materials

2020 Wasserman Award

Dr Filip Mateusz Podjaski

Investigations into Nanostructured Materials for Water Splitting and Direct Solar Energy Harvesting

2019 Wasserman Award

Dr Yan Wei

Microstructure Engineering in Multi-material Fibers

2019 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Annick Pauline Baur

Variant selection in martensitic steels

Bingqing Cheng

Predicting homogeneous nucleation rate from atomistic simulations

Pablo Miguel Piaggi

Entropy as a tool for crystal discovery

2018 EDMX Thesis Distinction 8%

Zhi Luo

Advanced characterization methods for self-assembled organization on nanoparticles

Suzanne Godelieve Alphonsine Verheyden

Thermal Activation, Intermittency and Size Effects in the Plastic Deformation of Cast Aluminium Microwires

Jérémie Werner

Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Toward Affordable Ultra-High Efficiency Photovoltaics ?