EDMX News and Events

EDMX Social and Scientific Events until December 2023

EDMX is pleased to announce the upcoming events for the months of August to December.

More details will be sent by email in due course.

EDMX Eat'N'Meet & Coffee with LMGN, PBL and LAFT

The information session Eat’n Meet EDMX took place on November 15, 2023. We organize this event together with the section MX to promote the doctorate in Material Sciences and Engineering. Three PhD Students presented their project and experience:

– Huixin Guo from LMGN with the presentation “My Dynamic 3D work and life”

– Cem Tekin from PBL with the presentation “Engineering Supramolecular 2D Crystals”

– Biruktait Lemecho from LAFT with the presentation “”Harmonizing the Cosmos: Integrating CO2 Capture, Conversion, and Advanced Material Manufacturing for Sustainable Space Exploration”

Discussion has been followed around a buffet-lunch.

EDMX Eat'N'Meet & Coffee with LMSC and SML

The information session Eat’n Meet EDMX took place on May 10, 2023. We organize this event together with the section MX to promote the doctorate in Material Sciences and Engineering. Two PhD Students and an Alumni presented their project and experience:

– Alexandra Thoma from Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL) with the presentation “From Food to Drops”

– Chuen-Ru Li from Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL) with the presentation “Charge-selectively of permeable microcapsules”

– Alejandra Slagter from Laboratory of Mechanical Metallurgy (LMM) with the presentation “Steelmaking: insights from micromechanics”

Discussion has been followed around a buffet-lunch.

A coffee break was then organized by our PhD representatives Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas with the presentation of 2 laboratories:

– Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry Group (TIC)

– Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials (LMSC).

EPFL's My Thesis in 180 Seconds 2023 – EPFL Competition

Congratulations to EDMX finalists of the 7th Edition of the EPFL Competition MT180 which took place on 30 March 2023 at the Forum Rolex:

Eva Baur from SMAL, 1st place and public award prize,

Armand Kurum from LBI, 3rd place

They will compete in the Swiss final organised by CUSO, which will take place 29 June 2023 at the University of Lausanne in its French-speaking version. 

EDMX Research Day 2023

The EDMX Research Day 2023 took place on Wednesday February 8th, 2023.

The EDMX Research Day is an annual event that brings together all materials science PhD students at EPFL as well as other members of our scientific community.

Poster sessions – selected pitch talks and oral presentations – Alumni discussions

EDMX Christmas Lunch 2022

The EDMX Christmas lunch, organised by our PhD Student Representatives, Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas, took place on December 6th 2022.

This lunch gave a chance to PhD Students to discuss various topics that concern their PhD: how the TAs are going, any new publications, any new projects you are working on, and so on.

EDMX Breakfast 2022

On October 6, 2022, the EDMX Breakfast Event, organised by our PhD Student Representatives, Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas, took place.

It was a moment of sharing in good atmospher between PhD Students, Post-docs and Professors.

EDMX Summer Event 2022

On July 21st, 2022, the EDMX Summer Event, organised by our PhD Student Representatives, Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas, took place.

The event started with interesting talks given by EDMX alumni, Alvaro Charlet and Amin Rostamian. Then a buffet dinner has been shared.

EDMX Research Day 2022

On February 9, 2022 virtually by webinar

The EDMX Research Day is an annual event that brings together all materials science PhD students at EPFL as well as other members of our scientific community.

Pitch talks – PhD Students talks – Poster sessions – EDMX Alumni experience

EPFL's My Thesis in 180 Seconds competition

First place for Margaux Larcher, PhD student at the Laboratory of Thermomechanical Metallurgy (LMTM)

Margaux Larcher explained how the seemingly random movement of atoms in the shape memory material she is studying is, in fact, synchronized.