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Raffa at NWO Chains 2024

Such a honour to represent LNCE with a plenary lecture at the annual Dutch chemistry conference!  Wonderful discussions and time with old and new friends doing great science in the Netherlands.

LNCE at MATSUS 2024, congratulations Jennifer and Jari!

LNCE actively participated in the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS Fall 2024), held in Lausanne with Raffa being scientific organizer! Anna and Coline were invited to share their work in oral presentations; MJ, Jia, Krishna presented posters including their recent results and we are especially thrilled to congratulate Jennifer and Jari for winning Best Poster Awards. Great job team!

LNCE reaches out to the public during this year’s Scientastic festival!

Coline, Marco, Jennifer, Ludovic, Petru, Moritz, and MJ presented our work to visitors interested in science and CO₂ recycling during this year’s Scientastic festival in Lausanne. The event was an inspiring opportunity to connect with the public, sparking curiosity and raising awareness about the vital role of scientific research in addressing global challenges.

Raffa at the Nature Conference on CO2 Conversion by Renewable Energy

Such a honour to represent LNCE at this conference, wonderful line up of speakers and insightful discussions with colleagues and editors! Great to meet LNCE alumna Dr Min Wang, now an associate professor at the Institute of Process Engineering in Beijing.

LNCE at the SCS Fall Meeting 2024 in Fribourg and congratulations to Coline!

Coline and Marco attended the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, one of the largest annual research conferences in Switzerland! Congratulations to Coline for winning the Best Poster Presentation Award as runner-up in the session material chemistry!!

Congratulation to Raffa for the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award 2024!

Such a wonderful symposium in her honour with mentors, friends and group members from all over the World! And wish even more could have come! Thank you everyone for joining and sharing your great science, it was a memorable event..

LNCE at the ACS Fall Meeting 2024 in Denver!

Wonderful scientific discussions and reunion with many friends..Here, Raffa with Ona, Petru, Anna and our guest Jordi from our neighbour LFIM! Good luck with the start of your postdoc in Stanford Ona!

8th LNCE Group Retreat (Leysin, July 2024)

Great science and discussions, delicious Costa Rican food, a lovely walk in Nature…One more wonderful retreat in the books and ready for the year to come!

LNCE at the GRC Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals 2024!

Wonderful scientific discussions and reunion with many friends..Here, Marco, Anna, Raffa and Seryio (first LNCE PhD now doing his postdoc at MIT) Already looking forward to the 2026 meeting 🙂

Great NCCR Catalysis Retreat and congratulations to Marco! 11-12.06.2024

Interesting science spanning across different fields of catalysis, a bit of fun and congratulations to our Marco with Diana Cavalli from LCSO for their best talk on quantum dots to photocatalyze organic reactions!

Congratulations Dr Ona Segura-Lecina! 02.05.2024

LNCE 10th PhD student could not be a better one! Looking forward to remaining in touch and good luck for your new adventure in Stanford in Congreve group on the SNSF postdoctoral fellowship, well done!

 

Goodbye Philippe and Seongeun! 26.03.2024

Time came to say good bye to our Dr Philippe Green: thank you for the great science together and looking forward to remaining in touch in the future! Good luck to you as well Seongeun!

Congratulations Dr Valery Okatenko! 14.12.2023

We wish you good luck for your future at Rice University in the Wang group! Looking forward to remaining in touch  🙂

Happy Holidays by LNCE!! 05.12.2023

Secret Santa, bowling, a delicious dinner…such a great time with this wonderful group of people! Looking forward to having fun while continuing doing great science together in 2024.

Long due celebration for accepted papers and awarded project, plus welcoming MJ, Marco and Jennifer! 02.11.2023

Good bye Min and Noah, we wish you all the best for your future! 30.08.2023

Ona, Raffa and Philippe represented LNCE at ACS Fall 2023 in San Francisco!

Wonderful scientific discussions and visits all around the Bay Area, including Twelve, Molecular Foundry Lisa and Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute!

Goodbye to our master students Paul, Eachann and Maxime! 02.08.2023

 7th LNCE Group Retreat (Champéry, July 2023)

Wonderful science, animated discussions, delicious French food, a beautiful hike… we are back more united and with beautiful memories 🙂

 

Good bye Gaetan, we wish you all the best for your future! 07.07.2023

Good bye Elena and Victoria, thanks for visiting us over the past few months! 20.04.2023

MATSUS23 Spring Meeting in Valencia

Such a successful meeting for LNCE! Raffaella delivered two invited talks, Kimoon presented his work for the first time, Coline won a best poster price and Petru won a best contributing talk! Great job 🙂

Happy Holidays by LNCE!! 12.12.2022

Secret Santa, Escape game, a delicious dinner…such a great time with this wonderful group of people! Looking forward to having fun while continuing doing great science together in 2023.

We wish you all the best for your future Kevin! 20.09.2022

It was such a fun journey to host a theorist in a group of experimentalists, we all learned a lot 🙂

Good bye Andrea, thanks for visiting us over the past 6 months! 29.08.2022

Congratulations Dr Laia Castilla i Amorós! 26.08.2022

The liquid metal pioneer, the creative, the vegan, the one that introduced the Secret Santa in LNCE…we will miss you!

6th LNCE Group Retreat (La Forclaz, August 2022)

Wonderful science, animated discussions, delicious food, a strenuous hike…we survived and we are back more united and with beautiful memories 🙂

Good bye to our Dr James Pankhurst!

We wish you good luck for your future and we remain in touch 🙂

GRC Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals 2022

Ona had fun presenting her poster and Raffa was elected to chair the 2026 GRC with Prof Brandi Cossairt from UW in Seattle!

Congratulations Dr Jan Vavra! 27.05.2022

He did survive to all his adventures  😉

Congratulations to Raffa for her tenure!

Wonderful LNCE reunion with past and present members, great job everyone!!

LNCE members at the GRC Solar Fuels 2022 in beautiful Tuscany 🙂

From the left: Anna, Valery, Raffa, Ludovic, Petru

Long due celebration for accepted papers! 07.03.2022

Congratulations to first authors Anna, Laia, Kevin, Ona and Ludovic 🙂

Group dinner 2021: Happy Holidays by LNCE!

Despite all difficulties, we made it through 🙂

Congratulations Dr Yannick Guntern! 13.09.2021

He played in 3 music bands, brewed beer and did awesome science 🙂

Raffaella at the Swiss Chemistry Society Science Night for her Werner Price, congratulations! 09.09.2021

5th LNCE Group Retreat (Bettmeralp, September 2021)

Wonderful Science, delicious Spanish food, hiking in beautiful Aletsch  and…a fire alarm 😉

Congratulations Jasmine and Ludovic for two successful master thesis! August 2021

Here with their mentors Valery and Laia 🙂

Congratulations Dr Pranit Iyengar! 30.07.2021

“It was such a happy ending!” 🙂

Congratulations Dr Behnaz Varandili! 01.03.2021

“With ups and downs, yet we made it to the end” 😉

Secret Santa version 2020: Happy Holidays by LNCE!

Congratulations Dr Valeria Mantella! 18.12.2020

“She was just perfect” 😉

Congratulations Dr Chethana Gadiyar! 23.09.2020

The power of the 3C: Chemistry, Curls and Cats 🙂

Congratulations Dr Seryio Saris! 18.09.2020

The green power 🙂

4th LNCE Group Retreat (Saas Grund, September 2020)

Upgraded from photos to a beautiful video this year!

Happy Holidays by LNCE! (December 2019)

Looking forward to a wonderful 2020 all together 🙂

3nd LNCE Group Retreat (La Forclaz, September 2019)

No comment, the photos say it all 🙂


Farewell lunch for Valerie (August 2019)

We wish Val good luck for her PhD in Stanford!


LNCE Group Picture 2018


Farewell dinners for Mariateresa and Jérémie (Jan/Feb 2019)

Sad to see people go, but it has to happen at some point…Wish you good luck for the next step!


2nd LNCE Group Retreat (Champery, October 2018)

Wonderful time together discussing Science, cooking and hiking!


Celebrating Mariateresa and Chethana’s paper, go LNCE! (Sept 2018)


Celebrating Chethana’s paper and Jianfeng’s paper! Good job 🙂 (June 2018)

papers celebration

Snowshoeing to Cabane du petit Mountet-Zinal (February 2018)

Zinal

LNCE Christmas Potluck 2017 : Bonnes Fêtes à tous!

Christmas2017

1st LNCE Group Retreat in Bettmeralp (August 2017)

Great science, delicious food, a lot of fun and the beautiful Swiss Nature…just perfect!

Retreat

LNCE Group Picture 2017


LNCE at the Nanax 8 Conference (July 2017)

Nana 8

BBQ at les Iles (June 2017)

bbq June 2017

Snowshoeing at the Grand Saint Bernard pass (February 2017)

grand saint bernard

LNCE at the Course de Noel in Sion! (December 2016)

course de Noel

Leo’s farewell dinner (December 2016)

Leo's farewell

Science in action! (September 2016)

Science in Action

LNCE hike in Ovronnaz (July 2016)

group hike


First LNCE dinner! (May 2016)

first group dinner