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SB@EPFL March 2021

School of Basic Sciences – March 2021

Faculty Promotions

At its meeting of 3-4 March 2021, the ETH Board has promoted Jeremy Luterbacher to Associate Professor and awarded the title of Adjunct Professor to Dr Oleg Boyarkine, Dr Hugo Dil and Dr Marcel Drabbels.

Tension in lepton universality builds up …………

23 March 2021

A new dye shakes up solar cells…………

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22 March 2021

NTK: unlocking the mysteries of deep learning

16 March 2021

3D-printing perovskites on graphene makes next-gen X-ray detectors …………

22 February 2021

Heat loss control method in fusion reactors in Nature Communications

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17 February 2021

Light-based processors boost machine-learning processing ………… …………

8 January 2021

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Awards and Grants

Michael Grätzel receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Professor Michael Grätzel at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences and Professor Paul Alivisatos at UC Berkeley, have won the 2021 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences

“For their fundamental contributions in the development of nanostructured materials for energy-related applications.”

Tobias Kippenberg wins 2021 R.W. Wood Prize

“For pioneering contributions to the realization of chip-scale optical frequency combs.”

Mohammad Nazeeruddin wins Khwarizmi International Award

“For his contributions to Perovskite Solar Cells research.”

Adam Marcus and two colleagues from Yale and Berkeley won the Michael and Sheila Held Prize

“For their solution to longstanding questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs”