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Four postdoctoral researchers awarded QSE Postdoctoral Fellowships

Published:25.04.24 — The QSE Center has awarded four excellence fellowships to postdoctoral researchers who joined different quantum labs at EPFL in January 2024 to do vital research in various fields of quantum.

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral to be the next EPFL president

Published:27.03.24 — The Swiss Federal Council has just made its announcement: Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral will take over as EPFL president on 1 January 2025. Her appointment marks another achievement in an outstanding career. A physicist and materials scientist, Professor Fontcuberta i Morral joined EPFL in 2008, was named full professor in 2019, and became the School’s associate vice president for centers and platforms two years later.

Second ‘Swiss Quantum Days' brings Swiss quantum community together

Published:12.03.24 — From January 31-February 2, 2024, quantum researchers and members of industry and government from across Switzerland met in Villars-sur-Ollon for the second Swiss Quantum Days.

Three EPFL engineering professors elected to SATW

Published:05.03.24 — SATW, the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, has announced the appointment of 14 new full members for 2024, three of whom are from EPFL's School of Engineering (STI).

A “quantum leap” at room temperature

Published:15.02.24 — EPFL scientists have achieved a milestone by controlling quantum phenomena at room temperature.

EPFL researchers creating the future of quantum signal amplification

Published:12.02.24 — Scientists from EPFL's Hybrid Quantum Circuits Laboratory recently designed, fabricated and tested a Kinetic Inductance-based Parametric Amplifier (KIPA), a significant breakthrough in quantum signal amplification that represents an important step forward in the development of enhanced quantum sensors for technological applications and fundamental physics, potentially aiding in "tabletop precision physics".