May 28, 2024
Prof. Sophia Haussener is the recipient of the 2014 Yellott Award of the Solar Energy Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The award ceremony will be at ASME’s 18th International Conference on Energy Sustainability.
June 28, 2023
Our Nature Energy paper is out! Congratulations to Isaac, Saurabh and Clemens! Here is the EPFL-STI news article about it. And we were invited for the cover:
April 4, 2023
LRESE has an opening for a PhD position in computational (photo)electrochemistry to fill asap. More details and how to apply here.
April 3, 2023
LRESE welcomes its latest member Florentine Strudwick-Veenstra and visiting PhD student Byron Ross. And belayed congratulations to Dr. Nithin Mallya for successful private and public PhD thesis defenses in 2022.
August 23, 2022
Our Joule paper is out! Congratulations to Meng and Clemens. Here is the EPFL-STI news article about it.
August 16, 2022
Etienne and Mahendra’s paper made a cover of Advanced Energy Materials.
June 16, 2022
Congratulations to Xiaoyu Dai for receiving a SNF Early Postdoc Mobility Grant in 2022.
March 26, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Ronald Gutierrez for successful private and public PhD thesis defenses.
February 28, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah van Rooij and Dr. Xiaoyu Dai for successful private and public PhD thesis defenses.
Februrary 28, 2022
LRESE welcomes its latest members Sandrine Schoumans and William Gueissaz, as well as Franky Bedoya, Jian Li, and Guilherme Armas who joined last fall.
June 6, 2021
LRESE welcomes its latest members Sha Li, Evan Johnson, Nathaniel Mutrux, Venu Agarwal, and Nayan Bisaws.
November 1, 2020
LRESE welcomes its latest member Mahendra Patel.
September 1, 2020
LRESE welcomes its latest members Francesca Lorenzutti and Etienne Boutin.
July 1, 2020
LRESE welcomes its latest members Matthieu Jonin and Roberto Valenza.
May 22, 2020
We are looking for a 3th partner for our “Local production of an affordable solar fuel for clean cooking in the Global South”. Call document is here. Please submit your applications by July 1.
March 5, 2020
Prof. Sophia Haussener has been promoted to Associate Professor.
February 10, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Ehsan Rezaei for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense.
December 12, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Silvan Suter! He is one of the two recipients of EPFL’s EDEY Outstanding PhD Thesis Award of 2019.
Left to right: Prof. Aldo Steinfeld who gave the invited lecture, Prof. Sophia Haussener (thesis supervisor Silvan), Dr. Silvan Suter (awardee 1), Dr. Andreas Kettner (awardee 2), Prof. Mario Paolone (thesis supervisor Andreas).
November 15, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Jérémy Mora-Monteros for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense. And all four 2019 PhD graduates so far:
October 28, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Selmar Binder for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense.
September 22, 2019
Dr. Meng Lin, alumni of LRESE, has been appointed Assistant Professor at SUSTech in Shenzhen.
September 19, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Yannick Gaudy for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense.
August 15, 2019
Yannick Gaudy’s paper on “Rapid Performance Optimization Method for Photoelectrodes” is out in JPCC and the accompanying software can be downloaded from our page.
June 11, 2019
Prof. S. Haussener is the recipient of the 2019 Elsevier/JQSRT Raymond Viskanta Award.
April 29, 2019
Our Nature Energy paper is out! And the accompanying dynamic demonstrator comparison tool. Congratulations to Saurabh and Fredy. Here are the first press reactions (1,2).
April 9, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Silvan Suter for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense.
December 9, 2018
Program for the LRESE seminar day on December 18 is online.
November 28, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Saurabh Tembhurne! He is the recipient of EPFL’s EDEY Outstanding PhD Thesis Award of 2018.
September 18, 2018
Yannick Gaudy’s paper made the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
July 27, 2018
Prof. Haussener is a new member of the editorial board of Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells.
May 16, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Meng Lin! He received the ASME Solar Energy Division Graduate Student Award for his PhD work.
April 14, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Meng Lin for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense.
March 1, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Saurabh Tembhurne for a successful private and public PhD thesis defense.
December 22, 2017
Congratulations to Meng Lin for receiving a SNF Early Postdoc Mobility Grant in 2017, and to Saurabh Tembhurne for receiving a SNF Bridge Proof of Concept Grant in 2017.
November 28, 2017
LRESE organizes a workshop on Thermal Energy Storage on December 11, 9:30 to 18:00, at EPFL Lausanne, in ME D2 1522, with invited guest from all over the world. Researchers and PhD / master students are invited to attend (workshop is free of charge). Detailed program is available here. For questions, contact Prof. Sophia Haussener.
November 9, 2017
Program for the LRESE seminar day on December 18 is online.
October 16, 2017
LRESE welcomes its latest member Swarnava Nandy.
October 11, 2017
Congratulations to David Perone! He received the Zanelli Prize for his Master thesis entitled “Membraneless Laminar Flow Cell Using Sequential Catalysis for Electrochemical CO2 Conversion”, which he conducted in collaboration between LRESE and JCAP.
June 2, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Nikhil Banerji for a successful PhD thesis defense.
April 7, 2017
LRESE’s Solar Textile project is a winner of H&M’s Global Change Award. The project is a collaboraiton with the Modestino Group at NYU.
Update, June 6: The project is highlighted on the STI-EPFL website.
February 23, 2017
LRESE in the national news.
December 19, 2016
LRESE welcomes its latest members Sarah van Rooij and Nithin Mallya.
October 3, 2016
LRESE welcomes its latest member Clemens Suter.
September 21, 2016
Our article on the characterization of our high-flux solar simualtor has been published in Optics Express and been highlighted by EPFL news.
Update: Various follow articles around the world highlight our high-flux solar simulator (1,2,3,4).
September 1, 2016
A new postdoctoral position is available at LRESE.
LRESE welcomes its latest members Elise Fahy, Ronald Gutierrez, Nikhil Banerji, and Jeremy Mora Monteros.
Our webtool SPECDO – Solar PhotoElectroChemical Device Optimization – is up and running since early 2016, and few minor bugs have been fixed.
April 25, 2016
Congratulations to Saurabh Tembhurne and Meng Lin! They won the Best nano-tera.ch Entrepreneurship Project Award with their idea SOHHYTEC.
April 2, 2016
LRESE welcomes its latest member Fredy Nandjou.
January 4, 2016
LRESE welcomes its latest member Xiaoyu Dai.
December 17, 2015
Congratulations to Saurabh Tembhurne and Meng Lin! They won the Bühler Energy Challenge with their idea SOHHYTEC.
Program for the LRESE seminar day on December 18 is online.
November 9, 2015
Prof. S. Haussener receives the Prix Zonta 2015 (1,2,3,4).
October 8, 2015
Congratulations to Ronald Gutierrez! He received the “Prix Zanelli” for his Master thesis entitled “Modeling of CO2-splitting via practical photoelectrochemical devices”, which he conducted at LRESE.
September 9, 2015
LRESE welcomes its latest members Marc Schiffler and Yannick Gaudy.
June 9, 2015
Doctoral and postdoctoral position available at LRESE.
May 6, 2015
LRESE’s unique high-flux solar simulator has been installed and is operational.
LRESE welcomes its latest member Dr. Lihao Han.
February 20, 2015
Prof. Haussener’s SNSF starting grant in the media (1,2,3).
January 23, 2015
Our collaborative NFP70 project on Advanced Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage was presented at the media conference of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
December 5, 2014
Doctoral and postdoctoral position available at LRESE.
Program for the LRESE seminar day on December 18 is online.
November 25, 2014
Prof. Haussener is co-organizing a minisymposium on “Recent Advances in Estimating Two-Phase Transport in Porous Media“, to be part of the InterPore conference in Padova (May 18-21, 2015). We are soliciting high quality contributions.
November 25, 2014
Prof. Haussener awarded a Starting Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “SCOUTS: Strategic Computation and Optimization of Unified Templates for Solar Fuels”.
October 30, 2014
LRESE welcomes its latest members Selmar Binder, Gael Leveque, and Mathias Niffeler.
October 16, 2014
Prof. Haussener will give an invited talk at the Cellular Materials Conference in Dresden (October).
August 6, 2014
LRESE welcomes its latest members David Perraudin, Ehsan Rezaei, and Silvan Suter.
June 4, 2014
Prof. Haussener will give invited talks this summer at the IPS conference (July) and the ECM conference (August).
January 29, 2014
Congratulations to Silvan Suter! He received the prize of the Hans-Eggenberger Foundation for his Master thesis entitled “Pore-engineering to increase performance of solar driven thermoechemical energy conversion”, which he conducted under the joint-supervision of Prof. Aldo Steinfeld (ETHZ) and Prof. Sophia Haussener (EPFL).
November 20, 2013
Congratulations to Yannick Gaudy! He received the prize of the RIE association (Association pour la Recherche et l’Innovation Energétique) for his Master thesis entitled “Modeling of Z-scheme Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Devices: Ohmic Wired Porous Electrodes and Particulate Semiconductors with Redox Mediators”, which he conducted at LRESE.
November 15, 2013
LRESE’s article on simulation of the efficiency of photoelectrochemical water-splitting devices made the cover of Energy & Environmental Science, issue 12.
October 8, 2013
Congratulations to Yannick Gaudy! He received the “État de Vaud” prize for his Master thesis entitled “Modeling of Z-scheme Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Devices: Ohmic Wired Porous Electrodes and Particulate Semiconductors with Redox Mediators”, which he conducted at LRESE.
August 30, 2013
LRESE welcomes its latest members, Meng Lin and Saurabh Tembhurne.
April 29, 2013
LRESE welcomes its latest member, Mikaël Dumortier.
March 26, 2013
The research of LRESE has been covered by STI news.
February 6, 2013
LRESE welcomes its latest members, Dominique Espic and Silvan Suter.
January 2, 2013
Our PEC modeling article was covered in LBNL’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) news.