PhD

EPFL Research Awards

Aspire to excellence. Find the list of awards for PhD, Postdoc, & Independant Researchers

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PhD

The section below presents all prizes for which PhD students may be eligible. Please read carefully the instructions.

The prize is awarded for particularly excellent master’s and/or doctoral work in the fields of energy and information technology and automation technology.

Call Deadline: 4 November

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The purpose of this award is to distinguish innovative and high-level research. Two prizes are allocated, each valued at USD 10,000. See the instructions to learn more about the eligible areas.

Call Deadline: 18 March

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To recognize doctoral work of exceptional quality and to attract highly qualified researchers.

Call Deadline: 4 November

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The prize rewards a PhD student having completed an EPFL PhD thesis in the field of mechanical engineering, electricity or physics.

Call Deadline: 4 November

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The prize rewards a doctoral thesis or a master project undertaken at the EPFL.

Call Deadline: 4 November

This prize has been discontinued. The prize is intended to reward the author of a research paper or set of papers making a valuable contribution to the theory and applications of materials science.

The prize, attributed every three years, distinguishes innovative and high-level research in the exact sciences, natural sciences or biomedical sciences.

Call Deadline: 4 November

Postdoc

The section below presents all prizes for which Postdocs may be eligible. Please read carefully the instructions.

This prize has been discontinued. The prize is intended to reward the author of a research paper or set of papers making a valuable contribution to the theory and applications of materials science.

The prize is intended to reward the author of research conducted at EPFL that makes an important contribution and innovation in the field of science and technology. The author of this work must be no more than 40 years old.

Call Deadline: 2 March

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This prize is intended to reward postdoctoral research work (research report and publication file) conducted within the framework of EPFL, which makes an important contribution or innovation of international scope in the field of environmental sciences, or technologies having a positive impact on the environment or sustainable development.

Call Deadline: 2 March

Independant Researchers

The section below presents all prizes for which Independent researchers may be eligible. Please read carefully the instructions.

The prize is intended to reward the author of research conducted at EPFL that makes an important contribution and innovation in the field of science and technology. The author of this work must be no more than 40 years old.

Call Deadline: 2 March

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2024 Awardees

For all details and previous years’ lists, please have a look at the complete list of EPFL Research Awards.

© 2024 Seyed Mahmood Hamze-Ziabari

EPFL Doctorate Award – 2024 – Seyed Mahmood Hamze-Ziabari

— Unravelling submesoscale processes associated with meso- and basin-scale gyres in Lake Geneva EPFL thesis n°10293 Thesis director: Prof. D. A. Barry

© Katarina Pinjusic

EPFL Doctorate Award – 2024 – Samuel Mendes Leitão

— Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy EPFL thesis n°9412 Thesis director: Prof. G. Fantner

© 2024 Giulia Tagliabue

University Latsis Award EPFL – 2024 – Giulia Tagliabue

— Light-to-X: Redefining Energy Transport and Conversion with Nanophotonics

©  Claudia Pogoreutz

Zeno Karl Schindler Award – 2024 – Nils Rädecker

— Metabolic regulation of the cnidarian-algal symbiosis

© 2024 Stanislav Sergeev

Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. (ABB) Award – 2024 – Stanislav Sergeev

— Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption EPFL thesis n°9784 Thesis directors: Prof. P. Vandergheynst, Dr H. Lissek

© 2024 EPFL

Gilbert Hausmann Award – 2024 – Guilherme Migliato Marega

— 2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing EPFL thesis n°10230 Thesis director: Prof. A. Kis

© Rishabh Iyer

Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award – 2024 – Rishabh Iyer

— Latency Interfaces for Systems Code EPFL thesis n°9028 Thesis directors: Prof. G. Candea, Prof. A. Argyraki

© Alireza Modirshanechi

Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award – 2024 – Alireza Modirshanechi

— Seeking the new, learning from the unexpected: Computational models of surprise and novelty in the brain EPFL thesis n°9716 Thesis director: Prof. W. Gerstner

© Mark Hanson

EPFL Doctorate Award – 2023 – Mark Hanson

— A systematic CRISPR approach to understanding the role of Drosophila antimicrobial peptides in immunity in vivo EPFL thesis n°8880 Thesis director: Prof. B. Lemaitre

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EPFL Doctorate Award – 2023 – Arthur Jacot

— Theory of Deep Learning: Neural Tangent Kernel and Beyond EPFL thesis n°9825 Thesis director: Prof. C. Hongler

© 2023 EPFL/Alain Herzog

University Latsis Award EPFL – 2023 – Jean-Philippe Brantut

— Quantum simulations with atoms and photons