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: 6 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: 6 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: 6 November

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

Call Deadline: 31 October

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: 31 October

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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2023 Awardees

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

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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

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Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. (ABB) Award – 2023 – Laurie-Lou Senaud

— Electrical Losses Mitigation in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells EPFL thesis n°8648 Thesis director: Prof. Ch. Ballif

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Gilbert Hausmann Award – 2023 – Guillaume Pietrzyk

— Precision measurement of neutral charm meson mixing parameters EPFL thesis n°8771 Thesis director: Prof. F. Blanc

© Giulia Meuli

IBM Research Award – 2023 – Giulia Meuli

— Program Compilation for Large-Scale Quantum Computers EPFL thesis n°8756 Thesis director: Prof. G. De Micheli

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Materials Science Award (prev. Wasserman Award) -2023- Alvaro Charlet

— Mechanical reinforcement of hydrogels through physical crosslinks and double network granular architecture EPFL thesis n°9173 Thesis director: Prof. E. Amstad

© Felix Imhof

Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award – 2023 – Agnieszka Chryplewicz

— Therapeutic co-targeting strategies for efficacious immune attack and tumor response Thesis director: Prof. D. Hanahan

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Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award – 2023 – Kevin Jablonka

— Toward data-driven materials design: From atoms to pilot plants Thesis director: Prof. B. Smit

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EPFL Doctorate Award – 2022 – Lana Josipović

— High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits EPFL thesis n°7211 Thesis director: Prof. P. Ienne

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EPFL Doctorate Award – 2022 – Mikhail Nikolaev

— Engineering next generation organoids through guided stem cell self-organisation EPFL thesis n°7568 Thesis director: Prof. M. Lutolf