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Kavungal wins the Prizmatix Young Investigator Award

Published:06.02.24 — Congratulation to Deepthy Kavungal for receiving the Prizmatix Young Investigator Award at SPIE Photonics West!

Kavungal wins the 2023 IBI Young Bioengineer Award

Published:21.09.23 — Congratulations to Deepthy Kavungal for winning the 2023 Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award!

Liu wins the bioengineering day poster award

Published:21.09.23 — Congratulations to Yen-Cheng Liu for winning the IBI Bioengineering Day poster award!

Liu wins the IBI Lebowski Award

Published:21.09.23 — Congratulations to Yen-Cheng Liu for winning the IBI Lebowski Award!

Ansaryan wins the GRC poster award

Published:17.08.23 — Congratulations to Saeid Ansaryan for winning the GRC poster award!

BIOS article highlighted in Nature Biomedical Engineering

Published:17.08.23 — Our paper "High-throughput spatiotemporal monitoring of single-cell secretions via plasmonic microwell arrays" is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering and the cover art was selected for Volume 7, July 2023. Congrats to the authors for the paper and the great artwork!

BIOS research featured in EPFL NEWS

Published:14.07.23 — Our paper "Artificial intelligence–coupled plasmonic infrared sensor for detection of structural protein biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases" by Deepthy Kavungal et al. is published in Science Advances, and it is highlighted in EPFL news. It also has been reported on multiple scientific news websites. Congrats to the authors on the paper!

Ansaryan wins the Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award 2023

Published:14.07.23 — Congratulations to Saeid Ansaryan for winning the Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award 2023! Saeid won the award for his work "High-throughput spatiotemporal monitoring of single-cell secretions via plasmonic microwell arrays ".

BIOS research featured in EPFL NEWS

Published:17.05.23 — Our paper "High-throughput spatiotemporal monitoring of single-cell secretions via plasmonic microwell arrays" by Saeid Ansaryan et al. is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering and it is highlighted in EPFL news. Congrats to the authors on the paper!

Ansaryan wins the META 2023 travel grant

Published:17.05.23 — Congratulations to Saeid Ansaryan for winning the travel grant of the META 2023 conference!

Kavungal wins the EPFL Bioengineering Day poster prize

Published:17.05.23 — Congratulations to Deepthy Kavungal for winning the best poster award in the 2022 EPFL Bioengineering Day!

Leitis wins the Prix OMEGA Scientific award

Published:08.05.23 — Congratulations to Aleksandrs Leitis for receiving the Prix OMEGA Scientific award with his Thesis "Metasurfaces for label-free biosensing mid-infrared optics and active photonic devices"!

BIOS article highlighted in Advanced Materials

Published:14.11.21 — Our paper "Wafer-Scale Functional Metasurfaces for Mid-Infrared Photonics and Biosensing" is published in Advanced Materials and the cover art was selected for Volume 33, Issue 43, 2021. Congrats to the authors for the paper and the great artwork!

Leitis wins the MDPI Nanomaterials and Photonics Travel Awards

Published:12.06.21 — Congratulations to Aleksandrs Leitis for receiving the MDPI Nanomaterials 2021 Travel Award and Photonics Travel Awards for 2021.

Jahani elected as the president of the EPFL Photonics Chapter

Published:08.06.21 — Congratulations to Yasaman Jahani for being elected as the president of the EPFL Photonics Chapter (EPC) for 2021!

BIOS research featured in EPFL NEWS

Published:08.06.21 — Our paper "Imaging-based spectrometer-less optofluidic biosensors based on dielectric metasurfaces for detecting extracellular vesicles" by Yasaman Jahani et al. is published in Nature Communications. Congrats to the authors for the paper!

BIOS work reported by Swiss TV channel

Published:12.04.21 — A recent work by Aurélian John-Herpin et al. just published on Advanced Materials Journal was reported by the Swiss TV channel La Télé Vaud Fribourg on April 8th, 2021.

John-Herpin Wins CLEO EPS-QEOD Award

Published:12.04.21 — Congratulations to Aurelian John-Herpin for winning the CLEO EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Award!

BIOS research featured in EPFL NEWS

Published:07.04.21 — A recent work of BIOS was featured on the EPFL news. Also, this work has been highlighted on the front cover of the Advanced Materials journal.

BIOS research featured in EPFL NEWS

Published:02.03.21 — A recent work of BIOS in collaboration with Prof. Camilla Jandus' group at the universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Lausanne (UNIL) was featured on the EPFL news.

BIOS article highlighted in ACS Photonics

Published:20.01.21 — Our paper "Dielectric Metasurfaces Enabling Advanced Optical Biosensors" is published in ACS Photonics and the cover art was selected for Volume 8, Issue 1, 2021. Congrats to the authors for the paper and the great artwork!

Hatice Altug Elected Fellow of The Optical Society

Published:15.10.20 — Professor Hatice Altug has been elected Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA) at the Society’s recent Board of Directors meeting. Please join us in congratulating Professor Altug for this distinguished election!

Ansaryan wins the CMI Picture of the Month

Published:14.10.20 — Congratulations to Saeid Ansaryan for winning the CMi "Picture of the Month" photo contest with the picture "Starcell," which comes with his 100,-CHF cash prize.

Prof. Altug Awarded Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics

Published:10.06.20 — Prof. Hatice Altug received the award EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics for 2020 Summer. According to the European Physical Society, Prof. Altug received this award "for her seminal contributions to light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, manipulation of light on-chip and application of nanophotonics in biology, and her inspiring role for the next generation of researchers and women."

Congratulations to Prof. Altug on her promotion to Full Professor!

Published:21.05.20 — Professor Hatice Altug was named as Full Professor of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering (STI), the nomination was announced on 14.05.20 on EPFL news. Please join us in congratulating Professor Altug on this exciting accomplishment!

BIOS article highlighted in Advanced Functional Materials

Published:20.05.20 — Our paper "Huygens' Metasurfaces: All‐Dielectric Programmable Huygens' Metasurfaces" by Aleksandrs Leitis et. al. has been highlighted on the Frontispiece of issue 19 of Advanced Functional Materials journal.

BIOS research featured in EPFL NEWS

Published:23.01.20 — Our recent paper by Alexander Belushkin et. al. was featured on the EPFL News.

BIOS article highlighted in Small Journal

Published:23.01.20 — Our paper “Rapid and Digital Detection of Inflammatory Biomarkers Enabled by a Novel Portable Nanoplasmonic Imager” by Alexander Belushkin et. al. has been highlighted on the front cover of the January issue of Small Journal.

Dr. Li wins 2019 Ph.D. Thesis Distinction Award

Published:28.11.19 — Congratulations to Dr. Xiaokang Li for receiving the “2019 Ph.D. Thesis Distinction in EPFL Biotechnology and Bioengineering” award. This award recognizes the EDBB’s best 8% of the doctoral theses in the year of 2019.

Leitis wins the Best Poster Award on the EPFL Bioengineering Day 2019

Published:28.11.19 — Congratulations to Aleksandrs Leitis for receiving the 2019 EPFL Bioengineering Day "Best Poster Award".

Li wins 2019 PRIME Conference Silver Leaf Award

Published:07.08.19 — Congratulations to Xiaokang Li for receiving the Silver Leaf Award in 2019 conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hatice Altug awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant

Published:25.07.19 — Hatice Altug, head of the BIOnanophotonic Systems laboratory has been awarded an ERC PoC Grant for her project: “Portable infrared biochemical sensor enabled by pixelated dielectric metasurfaces”

Leitis wins 2019 Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award

Published:01.07.19 — Congratulations to Aleksandrs Leitis for receiving the 2019 Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award sponsored by Zeiss/Gloor.

BIOS article highlighted in Nature Photonics

Published:01.06.19 — Our paper “Ultrasensitive hyperspectral imaging and biodetection enabled by dielectric metasurfaces” by Filiz Yesilkoy et. al. has been highlighted on the cover of the June issue of Nature Photonics and was chosen to illustrate Nature Photonics’ website throughout the month of June!

BIOS research highlighted in OPN

Published:01.05.19 — Our recent paper in Nature Photonics by Filiz Yesilkoy et. al. was highlighted in an OPN piece titled “Biosensor could scale new sensitivity heights”!

New BIOS article published Nature Photonics!

Published:15.04.19 — Our paper “Ultrasensitive hyperspectral imaging and biodetection enabled by dielectric metasurfaces” by Filiz Yesilkoy et. al. just appeared on Nature Photonics!

Leitis Wins EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Award

Published:20.03.19 — Congratulation to Aleksandrs Leitis for receiving the Travel Grant Student Award from the European Physics Society!

Yesilkoy Wins 2019 Sensors Travel Award

Published:01.03.19 — Congratulations to Dr. Filiz Yesilkoy for winning Sensors Journal's 2019 Travel Award!

John-Herpin Wins Carlsberg Foundation Scholarship

Published:01.03.19 — Congratulations to Aurelian John-Herpin for winning the Carlsberg Foundation Scholarship!

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Congratulations to Dr. Dordaneh Etezadi for receiving the “2018 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Distinction in EPFL Biotechnology and Bioengineering” award. This award recognizes the EDBB’s best threedoctoral theses between January 2017 and September 2018.

Congratulations to Dr. Andreas Tittl for winning the “2018 Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award” on 2018 Bioengineering Day! He presented his recent study on Imaging-based molecular barcoding with pixelated dielectric metasurfacesand his talk has been well received by the audience.

Congratulations to Filiz Yesilkoy for receiving the Best Poster Awardat the Gordon Research Conference“Harvesting, Generating, and Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale! Filiz presented her work on portable phase-sensitive biosensor.

Congratulations to Filiz Yesilkoy on her election to lead the Optical Biosensors Techinical Group at the Optical Society of America!

Our paper “Imaging-based molecular barcoding with pixelated dielectric metasurfaces” by Andreas Tittl et. al. just appeared on Science! Congratulations! It is highlighted on EPFL main webpage! Click here for the news!

Our paper “Resolving molecule-specific information in dynamic lipid membrane processes with multi-resonant infrared metasurfaces” by Daniel Rodrigo et al. just appeared in Nature Communications! Congratulations! It is highlighted on EPFL Bioengineering webpage! Click here for the news!

Our paper “Label‐Free Optofluidic Nanobiosensor Enables Real‐Time Analysis of Single‐Cell Cytokine Secretion” by Xiaokang Li et. al. just appeared on Small! Congratulations! It has been reported by multiple media, including EPFL News, RMIT News, EurekAlert, C&EN, and GEN. It is also highlighted as theFront Cover on the relevant issue!

Our paper “Plasmonic nanohole array biosensor for label-free and real-time analysis of live cell secretion” by Xiaokang Li, Maria Soler et. al. just appeared onLab on a Chip! Congratulations! It has been selected as one of the top 10% of papers published in Lab on a Chip and collected in “Lab on a Chip Recent HOT Articles“. This paper has also been selected to be highlighted at the back cover.

Congratulations to Dordaneh Etezadifor getting “honorable student oral presentation” at the 9^thInternational Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS) in Canada! She presented her recent workon secondary structure analysis with plasmonic nanoantennas and her talk has been well received by the audience.

Congratulations to Dr. Kosmas Tsakmakidisforhis most recent paper “Breaking Lorentz reciprocity to overcome the time-bandwidth limit in physics and engineering” just appeared on Science! It is also highlighted on EPFL main webpage! Click herefor the news!

Congratulations to Xiaokang Lifor receiving “Best Poster Prize” at the 51st Winterseminar on Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Functions, in Klosters, Switzerland.

Congratulations to Dordaneh Etezadifor getting “Junior Talk” at the51st Winterseminar on Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Functions, in Klosters, Switzerland. Only a few abstracts are chosen for talks.

Congratulations to Dr. Andreas Tittlfor being awarded an ‘EPFL Fellows’ postdoctoral fellowship with his research proposal application toEPFL’s international postdoctoral fellowship programme under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

Our paper “Mid-infrared plasmonic biosensing with graphene” by Daniel Rodrigo et al. just appeared on Science! Congratulations! Click here the EPFL news highlight.