Materials Science & Engineering @EPFL
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🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Michele Zendrini from LMSC for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Engineering GaAs nanostructures for heterointegration with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides” under Prof. @i_morral and Dr. Valerio Piazza supervision
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Michele Zendrini from LMSC for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Engineering GaAs nanostructures for heterointegration with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides” under Prof. @i_morral and Dr. Valerio Piazza supervision
✨ EDMX events
🥐 Welcome Breakfast – 11.11.2025, followed by an information meeting for new doctoral students
🍽️ Eat&Meet – 25.11.2025, 12:15 PM
A buffet-lunch information meeting for Master students
🎄 EDMX Christmas Lunch – 11.12.2025
More details 👉 go.epfl.ch/EDMX_event
🥐 Welcome Breakfast – 11.11.2025, followed by an information meeting for new doctoral students
🍽️ Eat&Meet – 25.11.2025, 12:15 PM
A buffet-lunch information meeting for Master students
🎄 EDMX Christmas Lunch – 11.12.2025
More details 👉 go.epfl.ch/EDMX_event
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
✨ EDMX events
🥐 Welcome Breakfast – 11.11.2025, followed by an information meeting for new doctoral students
🍽️ Eat&Meet – 25.11.2025, 12:15 PM
A buffet-lunch information meeting for Master students
🎄 EDMX Christmas Lunch – 11.12.2025
More details 👉 go.epfl.ch/EDMX_event
🥐 Welcome Breakfast – 11.11.2025, followed by an information meeting for new doctoral students
🍽️ Eat&Meet – 25.11.2025, 12:15 PM
A buffet-lunch information meeting for Master students
🎄 EDMX Christmas Lunch – 11.12.2025
More details 👉 go.epfl.ch/EDMX_event
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Nicola Marzari on receiving the 2026 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Material Physics from the American Physical Society!
Read more here: actu.epfl.ch/news/nicola-...
Read more here: actu.epfl.ch/news/nicola-...
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Nicola Marzari on receiving the 2026 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Material Physics from the American Physical Society!
Read more here: actu.epfl.ch/news/nicola-...
Read more here: actu.epfl.ch/news/nicola-...
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Francesca Bono from the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMaL) for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Additive manufacturing of bio-inspired functional granular hydrogels: from soft to mineral-based composites" under Prof. Esther Amstad's supervision.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Francesca Bono from the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMaL) for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Additive manufacturing of bio-inspired functional granular hydrogels: from soft to mineral-based composites" under Prof. Esther Amstad's supervision.
🌟The IMX Colloquium is underway! Exciting discussions, cutting-edge research, and inspiring talks are happening every Monday at the IMX Colloquium. Don’t miss out and check out the complete program 👇
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🌟The IMX Colloquium is underway! Exciting discussions, cutting-edge research, and inspiring talks are happening every Monday at the IMX Colloquium. Don’t miss out and check out the complete program 👇
✨Are you a driven Master’s student passionate about Materials Science? Join one of the cutting-edge research labs at EPFL’s Institute of Materials (IMX) for a 6-month Master project.
Choose a lab and apply!
🗓️ MX Fellowship applications are open until November 1
🔗 sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello...
Choose a lab and apply!
🗓️ MX Fellowship applications are open until November 1
🔗 sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello...
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
✨Are you a driven Master’s student passionate about Materials Science? Join one of the cutting-edge research labs at EPFL’s Institute of Materials (IMX) for a 6-month Master project.
Choose a lab and apply!
🗓️ MX Fellowship applications are open until November 1
🔗 sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello...
Choose a lab and apply!
🗓️ MX Fellowship applications are open until November 1
🔗 sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello...
🎓 Congrats to Dr. Hritwick Banerjee from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) for successfully defending his PhD thesis “
Functional Soft Fibers and Textiles: Multi-Material Approaches for Actuation and Sensing” under Prof. Fabien Sorin's supervision.
Functional Soft Fibers and Textiles: Multi-Material Approaches for Actuation and Sensing” under Prof. Fabien Sorin's supervision.
October 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🎓 Congrats to Dr. Hritwick Banerjee from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) for successfully defending his PhD thesis “
Functional Soft Fibers and Textiles: Multi-Material Approaches for Actuation and Sensing” under Prof. Fabien Sorin's supervision.
Functional Soft Fibers and Textiles: Multi-Material Approaches for Actuation and Sensing” under Prof. Fabien Sorin's supervision.
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Matthieu Wendling from the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials - LMOM for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Hierarchical Structure and Phase Behavior of Supramolecular Elastomers” under Prof. Holger Frauenrath's supervision
October 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Matthieu Wendling from the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials - LMOM for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Hierarchical Structure and Phase Behavior of Supramolecular Elastomers” under Prof. Holger Frauenrath's supervision
Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 13 October 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Ingrid Graz, Linz School of Education, Austria
🔎 Smart by Nature: Bio-Inspired sensors and actuators
Find out more: lnkd.in/eysPGHrE
🗓️ Monday, 13 October 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Ingrid Graz, Linz School of Education, Austria
🔎 Smart by Nature: Bio-Inspired sensors and actuators
Find out more: lnkd.in/eysPGHrE
October 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 13 October 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Ingrid Graz, Linz School of Education, Austria
🔎 Smart by Nature: Bio-Inspired sensors and actuators
Find out more: lnkd.in/eysPGHrE
🗓️ Monday, 13 October 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Ingrid Graz, Linz School of Education, Austria
🔎 Smart by Nature: Bio-Inspired sensors and actuators
Find out more: lnkd.in/eysPGHrE
🎓 Huge congratulations to our 42 graduates who received their Master’s degrees last Saturday at the Magistrale!
We are proud of all our graduates.
Thank you for being part of our community, and we wish you every success in your next chapter!
We are proud of all our graduates.
Thank you for being part of our community, and we wish you every success in your next chapter!
October 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🎓 Huge congratulations to our 42 graduates who received their Master’s degrees last Saturday at the Magistrale!
We are proud of all our graduates.
Thank you for being part of our community, and we wish you every success in your next chapter!
We are proud of all our graduates.
Thank you for being part of our community, and we wish you every success in your next chapter!
🎓 Congrats to Dr. Huixin Guo (LMGN) on defending her PhD thesis “Additive Manufacturing and Exploration of Three-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Nanonetworks for 3D Magnonics and 3D Spintronics” with Prof. Dirk Grundler. Nominated for the Thesis Distinction Award!
October 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎓 Congrats to Dr. Huixin Guo (LMGN) on defending her PhD thesis “Additive Manufacturing and Exploration of Three-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Nanonetworks for 3D Magnonics and 3D Spintronics” with Prof. Dirk Grundler. Nominated for the Thesis Distinction Award!
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Calixe Bénier from the Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry (TIC) Group for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Lubrication of the watch pivot contact: a multi-physics approach” under Dr. Stefano Mischler's supervision.
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Calixe Bénier from the Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry (TIC) Group for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Lubrication of the watch pivot contact: a multi-physics approach” under Dr. Stefano Mischler's supervision.
Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 29 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Jörg F. Löffler, Department of Materials, ETHZ, Switzerland
🔎 Ultrahigh-purified lean magnesium alloys for bioresorbable implant applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
🗓️ Monday, 29 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Jörg F. Löffler, Department of Materials, ETHZ, Switzerland
🔎 Ultrahigh-purified lean magnesium alloys for bioresorbable implant applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Join us for the next IMX Colloquium
🗓️ Monday, 29 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Jörg F. Löffler, Department of Materials, ETHZ, Switzerland
🔎 Ultrahigh-purified lean magnesium alloys for bioresorbable implant applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
🗓️ Monday, 29 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. Jörg F. Löffler, Department of Materials, ETHZ, Switzerland
🔎 Ultrahigh-purified lean magnesium alloys for bioresorbable implant applications
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
👏 Congratulations to Prof. @micheleceriotti.bsky.social (@labcosmo.bsky.social) and Prof. Roland Logé (LMTM)
on their promotion to Full Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering!
More info: actu.epfl.ch/news/appoint...
on their promotion to Full Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering!
More info: actu.epfl.ch/news/appoint...
September 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
👏 Congratulations to Prof. @micheleceriotti.bsky.social (@labcosmo.bsky.social) and Prof. Roland Logé (LMTM)
on their promotion to Full Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering!
More info: actu.epfl.ch/news/appoint...
on their promotion to Full Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering!
More info: actu.epfl.ch/news/appoint...
Don't miss the next IMX talk:
🗓️ Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 16:00
🎙️ Dr. Laura Porath from ESPCI, Paris, France
🔎 Viscoelasticity and Applications of Self-Healing Polymers
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
🗓️ Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 16:00
🎙️ Dr. Laura Porath from ESPCI, Paris, France
🔎 Viscoelasticity and Applications of Self-Healing Polymers
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Don't miss the next IMX talk:
🗓️ Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 16:00
🎙️ Dr. Laura Porath from ESPCI, Paris, France
🔎 Viscoelasticity and Applications of Self-Healing Polymers
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
🗓️ Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 16:00
🎙️ Dr. Laura Porath from ESPCI, Paris, France
🔎 Viscoelasticity and Applications of Self-Healing Polymers
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
Don't miss the next IMX talk:
🗓️ Friday, 19 September 2025 at 12:00
🎙️ Prof. Véronique Michaud
🔎 Sustainability driven composite materials development
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
🗓️ Friday, 19 September 2025 at 12:00
🎙️ Prof. Véronique Michaud
🔎 Sustainability driven composite materials development
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Don't miss the next IMX talk:
🗓️ Friday, 19 September 2025 at 12:00
🎙️ Prof. Véronique Michaud
🔎 Sustainability driven composite materials development
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
🗓️ Friday, 19 September 2025 at 12:00
🎙️ Prof. Véronique Michaud
🔎 Sustainability driven composite materials development
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
Join us for the IMX Colloquium - Fall 2025
🗓️ Monday, 15 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. John Kolinski, Engineering Mechanics of Soft lnterfaces, EPFL
🔎 Defects in cracks and contact: enhancing toughness and suppressing wetting
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
🗓️ Monday, 15 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. John Kolinski, Engineering Mechanics of Soft lnterfaces, EPFL
🔎 Defects in cracks and contact: enhancing toughness and suppressing wetting
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Join us for the IMX Colloquium - Fall 2025
🗓️ Monday, 15 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. John Kolinski, Engineering Mechanics of Soft lnterfaces, EPFL
🔎 Defects in cracks and contact: enhancing toughness and suppressing wetting
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
🗓️ Monday, 15 September 2025
🕐 13:15
🎙️ Prof. John Kolinski, Engineering Mechanics of Soft lnterfaces, EPFL
🔎 Defects in cracks and contact: enhancing toughness and suppressing wetting
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...
🚀 What an inspiring three days! The Alloys for Additive Manufacturing 2025 symposium in Neuchâtel co-organized by EPFL and EMPA has just wrapped up.
With 170 participants from around the world, the symposium sparked exciting discussions on the latest advances in metal additive manufacturing.
With 170 participants from around the world, the symposium sparked exciting discussions on the latest advances in metal additive manufacturing.
September 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🚀 What an inspiring three days! The Alloys for Additive Manufacturing 2025 symposium in Neuchâtel co-organized by EPFL and EMPA has just wrapped up.
With 170 participants from around the world, the symposium sparked exciting discussions on the latest advances in metal additive manufacturing.
With 170 participants from around the world, the symposium sparked exciting discussions on the latest advances in metal additive manufacturing.
🎓 Welcome to all our new Bachelor’s and Master’s students in Materials Science! We wish you an exciting academic journey and hope this new chapter will be filled with discovery, growth, and success.
September 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
🎓 Welcome to all our new Bachelor’s and Master’s students in Materials Science! We wish you an exciting academic journey and hope this new chapter will be filled with discovery, growth, and success.
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Melis Özkan for successfully defending her PhD thesis (nominated for the Best thesis award) “Development of Small Molecule Heparin Glycomimetics for Applications in Nerve Regeneration Therapies” under Prof. Stellacci and Prof. Micera supervision.
September 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Melis Özkan for successfully defending her PhD thesis (nominated for the Best thesis award) “Development of Small Molecule Heparin Glycomimetics for Applications in Nerve Regeneration Therapies” under Prof. Stellacci and Prof. Micera supervision.
Don't miss the next IMX talks on Sep 8 at 13:15 & 14:15
🎙️ Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Micro electro-mechanical physiological systems (MEMPhyS)
🎙️ Prof. Achilleas Savva, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Reverse Engineering the Nervous System with Biohybrid Electronics
🎙️ Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Micro electro-mechanical physiological systems (MEMPhyS)
🎙️ Prof. Achilleas Savva, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Reverse Engineering the Nervous System with Biohybrid Electronics
September 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Don't miss the next IMX talks on Sep 8 at 13:15 & 14:15
🎙️ Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Micro electro-mechanical physiological systems (MEMPhyS)
🎙️ Prof. Achilleas Savva, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Reverse Engineering the Nervous System with Biohybrid Electronics
🎙️ Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Micro electro-mechanical physiological systems (MEMPhyS)
🎙️ Prof. Achilleas Savva, Delft University of Technology
🔎 Reverse Engineering the Nervous System with Biohybrid Electronics
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Antonios Baganis from EMPA for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Fabrication of Multi-Material and Functionally Graded Metal Structures with Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing Methods” under the supervision of Dr. Christian Leinenbach.
September 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Antonios Baganis from EMPA for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Fabrication of Multi-Material and Functionally Graded Metal Structures with Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing Methods” under the supervision of Dr. Christian Leinenbach.
Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 September 1 at 11:00
🎙️ Prof. Christopher Hutchinson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University
🔎 Strengthening and strain hardening from solute clusters in Aluminium alloys
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
📅 September 1 at 11:00
🎙️ Prof. Christopher Hutchinson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University
🔎 Strengthening and strain hardening from solute clusters in Aluminium alloys
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
August 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Don't miss the next IMX talk:
📅 September 1 at 11:00
🎙️ Prof. Christopher Hutchinson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University
🔎 Strengthening and strain hardening from solute clusters in Aluminium alloys
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
📅 September 1 at 11:00
🎙️ Prof. Christopher Hutchinson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University
🔎 Strengthening and strain hardening from solute clusters in Aluminium alloys
Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...
Register before August 29!
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings @Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugu...
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings @Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugu...
August 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Register before August 29!
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings @Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugu...
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings @Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugu...
Save the Date!
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
July 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Save the Date!
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online
Join us for the inaugural lecture by Professor Maartje Bastings
🧬 "Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language"
🗓 Friday Sept 5
🕛 17:15 - 18:15
📍 Room SV1717 & Online