Distinction pour une thèse remarquable

Chaque année, une distinction est attribuée à une sélection de thèses de très grande qualité, afin de mettre en valeur les travaux de recherche des doctorantes et doctorants, et leur mérite scientifique. Pour chaque programme doctoral, les personnes diplômées nominées sont sélectionnées sur la base de leur examen oral. Puis la commission du programme évalue les personnes nominées et récompense les meilleurs 8%.

Lauréates et lauréats 2023 par programme doctoral

Giuseppe GALBIATI – Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980). Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

Samuel MENDES LEITAO – Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
Yang ZHAO – Countering T cell exhaustion and senescence for enhanced adoptive T cell therapies against solid tumors

Martin MÜLLER – On the use of applied machine learning and digital infrastructure to leverage social media data in health and epidemiology

Anne-Claire BILLAULT-ROUX – Snowfall microphysics: a dual-frequency and Doppler spectral radar perspective
Mahmood HAMZE ZIABARI – Unraveling submesoscale processes associated with meso- and basin-scale gyres in Lake Geneva

Rémi ANDRES – Catalytic enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction of carbonyl compounds: Development and application to the asymmetric total synthesis of indol[…]
Kevin JABLONKA – Toward data-driven materials design: From atoms to pilot plants
Lorenz MANKER – Acetal-Stabilized Carbohydrates as Novel Platform Molecules for Renewable Polymer Production
Manuel CORDOVA – NMR Crystallography in the Big Data Era: New Methods and Applications Powered by Machine Learning

Rahul GUPTA – Methods for Grid-aware Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks
Clément VIGNAC – Equivariant Neural Architectures for Representing and Generating Graphs
Amir YOUSSEFI – Ultra-high quantum coherent and scalable superconducting circuit optomechanics, from topological lattices to quantum storage

Julia GRANACHER – Decision support for the design of integrated biorefineries

Philippe VAN DER BECK – Demand-based Asset Pricing: Theory, Estimation and Applications
Goutham GOPALAKRISHNA – Essays in macro-finance and deep learning

Kristina GLIGORIC – Computational Approaches for Studying Dietary Behaviors with Digital Traces
Ehsan MOHAMMADPOUR – A Network Calculus Analysis of Asynchronous Mechanisms in Time-Sensitive Networks
Jakab TARDOS – Space-Efficient Representations of Graphs

Kartik WAGHMARE – Positive Definite Completions and Continuous Graphical Models

Federica PAGLIALUNGA – Nucleation, propagation, and scale dependence of laboratory frictional ruptures; implications for earthquake mechanics

Simone FRASCA – High-Kinetic Inductance Superconducting Technology for Quantum Applications
Sadegh KAMAEI BAHMAEI – Energy-Efficient Electronic Functions Based on the Co-integration of 2D and Ferroelectric Materials
Clémentine LIPP – Combination of dielectrophoretic and hydrodynamic traps for the controlled contact between cells or beads and application to adhesion assays

Ruxandra-Andreea LAMBUTA – Whole genome doubling promotes tumorigenesis through loss of chromatin segregation and compartment repositioning

Irene FERRETTO – Laser powder bed fusion of Fe-based shape memory alloys for novel structural metamaterials and “smart” structures
Robin GIROD – Multidimensional Electron Imaging of Catalyst Layer Materials
Matteo HIRSCH – Controlling the Microstructure and Composition of 3D Printed Soft Load-Bearing Hydrogels

Galina LIMORENKO – Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Complexity of Tau pathology
Marco MILANO – Targeted regeneration of spinal cord neurons across a complete injury restores walking

Luca ANTOGNINI – Contact Design for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Stefano FALLETTA – Self-Interaction and Polarons in Density Functional Theory
Baptiste FREI – A Gyrokinetic Moment Model of the Plasma Boundary in Fusion Devices
Simone GARGIULO – Electromagnetic processes of nuclear excitation: from direct photoabsorption to free electron and muon capture
Lorenzo TALAMANCA – Statistical physics of periodic biological processes

Enrico AJANIC – Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones
Frédéric GIRAUD – Active origami platforms for human-robot interactions

Lauréates et lauréats 2022 par programme doctoral

Pieter VLUGTER – Investigation of femtosecond laser-tuned thermomechanical properties of fused silica

Anna PAGANI – Towards sustainability through housing functions: a systems perspective for the study of Swiss tenants’ residential mobility

Lorenzo TALÀ – Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mechanosensing through label-free imaging of type IV pili
Barbora LAVICKOVA – Towards an artificial cell: Development of a system which self-regenerates the protein components of the PURE system in microfluidic reactors

Joseph LEMAITRE – Modeling infectious disease dynamics towards informed public health interventions, with applications on COVID-19 and cholera
Andronikos SKIADOPOULOS – Welded moment connections with highly dissipative panel zones for enhanced seismic performance of steel moment frames

Seonghoon CHOI – High-order geometric integrators for nonadiabatic molecular quantum dynamics and their applications to explore conical intersections
Sevan Mleh HABESHIAN – Methods for the generation of large combinatorial macrocycle libraries
Mingming WANG – Ring-Opening Reactions of Aminocyclopropanes and Aminocyclobutanes
Aurélien WILLAUER – Stabilizing Unusual Oxidation States of Lanthanides in Molecular Complexes: Synthesis, Properties, and Reactivity
Thomas BAUMELER – Bulk and surface engineering to improve performance and stability of perovskite solar cells

Lorenzo BERTONI – Reshaping Perception for Autonomous Driving with Semantic Keypoints
Michaël DEFFERRARD – Leveraging topology, geometry, and symmetries for efficient Machine Learning
Thanh-An Michel PHAM – Nonlinear Inverse Problems in Quantitative Phase Imaging

Fanny VITULLO – Miniature and Minimalistic Neutron Detectors for Online High-Resolution Experiments in the Zero-Power Reactor CROCUS
Alina WALCH – Spatio-Temporal Estimation of Renewable Energy Potential in Built Environments using Big Data

Mikhail ASIATICI – Miss-Optimized Memory Systems: Turning Thousands of Outstanding Misses into Reuse Opportunities
Sai Praneeth KARIMIREDDY – Optimization methods for collaborative learning
Tao LIN – Algorithms for Efficient and Robust Distributed Deep Learning
Michalina Wanda PACHOLSKA – Sampling Geometry and Colour

Quentin POSVA – On the projectivity of some moduli spaces of varieties
Tomas MASÁK – Covariance Estimation for Random Surfaces beyond Separability

Son-Jonathan PHAM-BA – Modeling the origins of adhesive wear across scales

Evgenii GLUSHKOV – Exploring optically active defects in wide-bandgap materials using fluorescence microscopy
Remco VAN ERP – Near-junction microfluidic cooling for high power-density GaN-on-Si electronics: A wafer, device, packaging, and system-level investigation

Mark HANSON – A systematic CRISPR approach to understanding the role of Drosophila antimicrobial peptides in immunity in vivo

Dirk LAUINGER – Vehicle-to-Grid for Reliable Frequency Regulation

Tzu-Hsien SHEN – Electron probing of oxygen-evolving oxide catalysts
Kewen LEI – Mechanical Immunoengineering of T Cells for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy
Sina ABDOLHOSSEINZADEH – 2D Material Based Inks For Room Temperature Printed Electronics

Lucie DIXSAUT – Where does the engram come from? Study of prefrontal cortex inputs during memory consolidation
Georgios FOUSTOUKOS – Anatomical and functional characterization of neocortical circuits involved in transforming whisker sensory processing into goal-directed licking

Aleksandr LEITIS – Metasurfaces for label-free biosensing mid-infrared optics and active photonic devices
Laurie-Lou SENAUD – Electrical Losses Mitigation in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Dunja SIMICIC – Advanced metabolite mapping at ultra-high field using 1H-MRS, 1H-MRSI and macromolecules: applications in a rat model of type C hepatic encephalopathy
Elena SESÉ SANSA – Collective behavior and emerging patterns in dense dry aligning active matter
Guillaume PIETRZYK – Precision measurement of neutral charm meson mixing parameters

Enrica SORIA – Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms

Lauréates et lauréats 2021 par programme doctoral

Laura TRAZIC – De la décoration par les ombres Traduction de méthodes picturales dans l’architecture française des XVIIIème et XIXème siècles

Mikhail NIKOLAEV – Engineering next generation organoids through guided stem cell self-organisation
Timo REY – Organisation and dynamics of mitochondria and their RNA

Jan BRÜTTING – Optimum design of low environmental impact structures through component reuse
Josué GEHRING – Leveraging meteorological radars to investigate the influence of atmospheric dynamics on snowfall microphysics

Shiqi HUANG – Etching nanopores in single-layer graphene with a sub-angstrom resolution in molecular sieving
Homa MOHAMMADI PEYHANI – Algorithms and flowchart for the design of synthetic biochemical networks
Bastian MURIEL – New Strategies for the Functionalization of Alkenes Exploiting Tethering Chemistry and Ring Strain
Abdusalom SULEYMANOV – Novel Triazenes and Solid State Luminogens
Yongpeng LIU – Novel Interfacial Characterization and Surface Engineering in Semiconductor Electrodes for Optimized Solar Fuel Production

Daniel HARASIM – The Learnability of the Grammar of Jazz: Bayesian Inference of Hierarchical Structures in Harmony

Arnout BECKERS – Cryogenic MOSFET Modeling for Large-Scale Quantum Computing
Weipeng HE – Deep Learning Approaches for Auditory Perception in Robotics
Gian PIREDDA – Quantitative Microstructural Imaging for Clinical Use
Suraj SRINIVAS – Gradient-based Methods for Deep Model Interpretability

Guillaume JEANMONOD – Effects of impurities and local behavior characterization using active thermography on solid oxide electrolysis cells

Maxime COUVERT – Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Shareholder Democracy

Lana JOSIPOVIC – High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits
Mihail ZABLOTCHI – Distributed Computing with Modern Shared Memory

Luigi DE ROSA – Non-smooth solutions in incompressible fluid dynamics

Chiara CORNELIO – Mechanical behaviour of fluid lubricated faults during earthquake nucleation and propagation

Alberto CIARROCCHI – Electronic, excitonic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional heterostructures
Nicolò OLIVA – At the end of scaling: 2D materials for computing and sensing applications

Sélène-Véronique GLÜCK – cGAS regulation and activity during genotoxic stress

Andreas LEBER – Soft functional fibers for mechanical sensing and actuation
Korbinian BAUMGÄRTL – Magnonic crystals with reconfigurable magnetic defects for spin-based microwave electronics
Jian WANG – Functional and Responsive Polymers via Controlled Radical Polymerization

Naïg CHENAIS – Photovoltaic stimulation of retinal microcircuit for vision restoration

Adrien DESCLOUX – Development of novel experimental and computational methods for three-dimensional coherent and super-resolution microscopy
Dora MAHECIC – High-throughput and adaptive super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of organelles

Gabriel CUOMO – Large charge, semiclassics and superfluids : from broken symmetries to conformal field theories
Jiangtao ZHOU – Nanoscale Characterization of Amyloid Fibrils and Biomacromolecules by Atomic Force Microscopy Approaches
Karla BANJAC – In situ nanoscale studies of copper-based catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction

Matteo MACCHINI – Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction

Lauréates et lauréats 2020 par programme doctoral

Valentin BOURDON – Les formes architecturales du Commun

Mehmet Ugur GIRGIN – In vitro modeling of early mouse development

Colas DROIN – Inference methods for the study of interacting biological oscillators in single-cells

Lucas FREROT – Bridging scales in wear modeling with volume integral methods for elastic-plastic contact
Numa Joy BERTOLA – Measurement-system design for structural identification
Juan Carlos QUEZADA RIVERA – Alternative Scenarios for the Development of Oil Palm in the Tropics: Carbon and Nutrients Dynamics

Mao RUNZE – Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids as Coupling Partners in Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions
Tamara MARIC – Development of novel tools for imaging of metabolic fluxes in vivo
Michelle Susanne FREI – Photoactivatable Silicon Rhodamines for Super-Resolution Microscopy
Maria MASID BARCON – Modeling metabolic and signaling pathways in cancer cells

Ya-Ping HSIEH – Convergence without Convexity: Sampling, Optimization, and Games
Irem BOYBAT KARA – Multi-memristive synaptic architectures for training neural networks
Thomas BOLTON – Development and application of dynamic functional connectivity methods to elucidate the neural underpinnings of human behaviour with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Eliott Philippe GUENAT – Advanced design methods and non-ideal gas lubrication applied to aerodynamic bearings

El Mahdi EL MHAMDI – Robust Distributed Learning
Eleftherios KOKORIS KOGIAS – Secure, Confidential Blockchains Providing High Throughput and Low Latency

Fabian MÖNKEBERG – High-order essentially nonoscillatory methods based on radial basis functions

Federico CIARDO – Hydraulic stimulation of pre-existing discontinuities in tight rocks

Jun MA – Tri-gate technologies for high-performance power GaN devices
Dmitrii UNUCHEK – Spin-valley optoelectronics based on two-dimensional materials

Mohammad Sadegh SAGHAFINIA – Roles of Epigenetic Dysregulation in Cancer Progression and Metastasis

Soroosh SHAFIEEZADEH ABADEH – Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Learning

Antimo MARRAZZO – Electronic Structure and Topology of Novel Materials
Martin George FRIEDL – Scalable Nanowire Networks: Growth and Functionality

Adrien DOERIG – Crowding and the Architecture of the Visual System

Flavien GYGER – Brillouin scattering in gas-filled hollow-core fibres

Edoardo MARTINO – Electrons leave the flatland: out-of-plane charge dynamics in layered materials
Maxim KARPOV – Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Violaine BELLÉE – Amplitude analysis for the measurement of the photon polarisation in B rightarrow K pi pi gamma decays

Alicja Barbara ROELOFSEN – An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots

Lauréates et lauréats 2019 par programme doctoral

Damiano ARENA – Towards semantics-driven modelling and simulation of context-aware manufacturing systems

Judith DROUILLES – Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l’horizon 2050

Xiaokang LI – Label-free plasmonic biosensors for real-time live cell analysis
Jake YEUNG – Tissue-specific circadian transcriptional regulation

Fabian BARRAS – When dynamic cracks meet disorder: A journey along the fracture process zone
Aida CAMESELLE MOLARES – Two-dimensional crack growth in FRP laminates and sandwich panels

Suzanne Maria JANSZE – Molecular nanostructures based on polyfunctional clathrochelate complexes
Franck LE VAILLANT – Photoredox-Catalyzed Decarboxylation for the Transfer of Alkynes and Nitriles Using Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
Ydna Marie QUESTELL-SANTIAGO – Production, characterization and upgrading of biomass-derived acetal-stabilized carbohydrates
Qiuliyang YU – Cofactor sensing proteins for metabolic assays at point-of-care

Adrien BESSON – Stratégie versus composition
Asja DERVISKADIC – Synchronized Sensing for Wide-Area Situational Awareness of Electrical Grids in Non-Stationary Operating Conditions

Andreas Martin KETTNER – Real-Time State Estimation and Voltage Stability Assessment of Power Grids: From Theoretical Foundations to Practical Applications
Silvan SUTER – Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Electrodes

Mina KONAKOVIĆ LUKOVIĆ – Computational Design of Auxetic Shells
Jakub TARNAWSKI – New Graph Algorithms via Polyhedral Techniques
Benjamin Pierre Charles WESOLOWSKI – Arithmetic and geometric structures in cryptography
Alp YURTSEVER – Scalable Convex Optimization Methods for Semidefinite Programming

Hélène RUFFIEUX – Large-scale variational inference for Bayesian joint regression modelling of high-dimensional genetic data

Predrag ANDRIC – The mechanics of crack-tip dislocation emission and twinning

Giovanni Vincenzo RESTA – Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics
Adrian Pascal NIEVERGELT – Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy

Elena BATTISTELLO – Novel therapeutic strategies targeting the B-cell receptor signaling and antigen presentation pathways in non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Simone HAAG – Identification and characterisation of small-molecule inhibitors targeting STING

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

Camille LE GOFF-MIGNARDOT – Neuroprosthetic Technologies to Evaluate and Train Leg Motor Control in Neurologically Impaired Individuals
Janir Nuno RAMOS ANTUNES DA CRUZ – EEG signatures of schizophrenia: visual backward masking and microstates

Erwan LUCAS – Physics of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators and Application to Low-noise Frequency Synthesis
Orly TARUN – Dynamic Imaging of Lipid Membranes by Means of Water

Rogério CABETE DE JESUS JORGE – A moment-based model for plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality
Mikhail IVANOV – Precision theoretical methods for large-scale structure of the Universe
Michael SCHENK – A novel approach to Landau damping of transverse collective instabilities in future hadron colliders

Salman FARAJI – Towards Robust Bipedal Locomotion From Simple Models To Full-Body Compliance
Zhenishbek ZHAKYPOV – Design Methodology for Engineering Multifunctional Mesoscale Robots

Lauréates et lauréats 2018 par programme doctoral

Sonia CURNIER – Espace public comme objet per se ? Une analyse critique de la conception contemporaine

Dordaneh ETEZADI – Mid-Infrared plasmonic nanoantennas for ultrasensitive detection of proteins and their secondary structure
Elena KATSYUBA – Role of ACMSD in regulation of NAD+ metabolism and mitochondrial function
Kristina WOODRUFF – Microfluidic platforms for high-throughput mammalian cell printing, transfection, and dosage-dependent studies

Luca CARRARO – Ecohydrological and Metacommunity Studies of Proliferative Kidney Disease Spread in Freshwater Salmonid Fish
Davide WÜTHRICH – Extreme Hydrodynamic impact onto buildings

Dominik KUBICKI – Surface-Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy
Adrian MARBERGER – Advances in Vanadium-Based Catalyst Research for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx by NH3
Diogo MATEUS RODRIGUES – Concept of Variants and Invariants for Reaction Systems, with Application to Estimation, Control and Optimization
Kasparas RAKSTYS – Molecularly Engineered Hole Transporting Materials for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Fabian BRAUN – Noninvasive Stroke Volume Monitoring by Electrical Impedance Tomography
Min LUO – Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Components for Circuit Simulation of Power Electronic Systems
Francesca STRADOLINI – IoT Bio-Electronic Multi-Panel Device for On-line Monitoring of Anaesthesia Delivery

Saurabh TEMBHURNE – Modeling and experimental demonstration of an integrated photoelectrochemical hydrogen generator working under concentrated irradiation

Alexandros DAGLIS – Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing
Ravichandhran KANDHADAI MADHAVAN – Algorithmic Resource Verification
Lucas MAYSTRE – Efficient Learning from Comparisons
Ashkan NOROUZI FARD – Algorithms For Clustering Problems: Theoretical Guarantees and Empirical Evaluations
Amir SHAIKHHA – Compilation and Code Optimization for Data Analytics

Timothée POUCHON – Effective models and numerical homogenization methods for long time wave propagation in heterogeneous media
Dimitri WYSS – Motivic and p-adic Localization Phenomena

Outi SUPPONEN – Collapse phenomena of deformed cavitation bubbles

Ioulia TZOUVADAKI – Nanoscale Sensors for Ultrasensitive Label-free Detection of Cancer Biomarkers and Monitoring of Therapeutic Compounds
Francesca VOLPETTI – High-throughput microfluidic platforms applied to immunoassay-based diagnostics and environmental monitoring

Zhi LUO – Advanced characterization methods for self-assembled organization on nanoparticles
Suzanne 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?

Svyatoslav KHARITONOV – Unidirectional isolator-free 2 micron fiber lasers

Nikolay BYKOVSKIY – HTS high current cable for fusion application
Mauro FANCIULLI – Spin polarization and attosecond time delay in photoemission from solids
Duccio MALINVERNI – Statistical Analysis of Protein Sequences: A Coevolutionary Study of Molecular Chaperones
Anna TEPLUKHINA – Realistic multi-machine tokamak profile simulations and numerical ramp-down optimization using the RAPTOR code

Bahar HAGHIGHAT – Design, Modeling, and Control Methods for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Self-Assembly of Resource-Constrained Robotic Modules

Lauréates et lauréats 2017 par programme doctoral

Michael Robert DOYLE – Potentialities of the Urban Volume: Mapping underground resource potential and deciphering spatial economies and configurations of multi-level urban spaces
Ana MOURA BASTOS DE FERNANDES PÓVOAS – Connecting space and justice in metropolitan Porto. The discourses of inhabitants on the spatial dimension of justice

David KOSSLER – Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium (II) Complexes: Synthesis and Applications in Catalysis
Siri Camee VAN KEULEN – Computational Investigation of Intracellular Signalling Cascades: from G-Protein- Coupled Receptors to Adenylyl Cyclase
Norman PELLET – Investigations on hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites for high performance solar cells
Mathieu Steven PREVOT – Investigating and controlling charge carrier behavior in p-type delafossite CuFeO2 photocathodes for solar fuel production

Julien René FAGEOT – Gaussian versus Sparse Stochastic Processes: Construction, Regularity, Compressibility
Alhussein FAWZI – Robust image classification: analysis and applications
Elvira PIRONDINI – A multimodal framework for the design and the assessment of robotic-assisted treatments for motor disorders

Houxue HUANG – Flow Boiling Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer of Refrigerants in Multi-microchannel Evaporators under Steady and Transient States

Vincent BOGOUSSLAVSKY – Three Essays on Predictability and Seasonality in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Van Thang PHAM – Erdos Distinct Distances Problem and Extensions over Finite Spaces
Ondrej BUDÁC – Multiscale methods for Stokes flow in heterogeneous media

Edoardo BALDINI – Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting and Correlated Quantum Systems
Natalia CHEPIGA – Dimerization and exotic criticality in spin-S chains
Georgios KARANANAS – Poincaré, Scale and Conformal Symmetries: Gauge Perspective and Cosmological Ramifications
Fabio RIVA – Verification and validation procedures with applications to plasma-edge turbulence simulations