News
The following feed highlights activities and achievements of scientists from the MaP community.
Prof. Netland gave the keynote at the 31th IJCIEOM conference, Bari
On June 24, Prof. Netland gave an invited lecture on the role of AI in teaching at the International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM).
Congratulations to Miguel for defending his PhD thesis
We warmly congratulate Miguel Spinola Fandila on successfully defending his doctoral thesis “Finite-temperature quasistatic atomistics from Gaussian phase packets: application to grain boundaries and glasses.”
Andreas Asperos named as finalist at MaP Graduate Symposium
Andreas Apeseros from Mesoscopic Systems was one of four finalists for the MaP Award 2025. He gave an impressive presentation at the MaP Graduate Symposium on 19th June 2025, and received a runner up award. Well done Andreas!
MaP Award 2025 Winner: Dr. Hyun Suk Wang (D-MATL)
The MaP Doctoral School at the ETH Zurich Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP) is delighted to announce that Dr. Hyun Suk Wang has won the MaP Award 2025 for the most outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of Materials and Processes at ETH Zurich presented in 2024. Congratulations!
Better images for humans and computers
Maksym Kovalenko and his team, affiliated with both ETH Zurich and Empa, have developed a new image sensor made of perovskite. This semiconductor material enables better colour reproduction and fewer image artefacts with less light. Perovskite sensors are also particularly well suited for machine vision.
Materials and Processes community celebrated 20th MaP Graduate Symposium with live graphic recording
On 19 June 2025, the MaP Graduate Symposium brought together the Materials and Processes (MaP) Community at ETH Zürich for its 20th annual gathering. To mark the anniversary, graphic recorder André Sandmann captured the day’s events on a single canvas, illustrating everything that unfolded with his pens.
Congratulations Dr. Scherer & Dr. Klipp!
David Scherer and Alexander Klipp successfully defended their PhD theses!
David focused on the production and characterization of endogenous receptor ligands for gene delivery and Alex on the engineering and discovery of phospholipases for endosomal escape.
Congratulations for your fantastic work and all the best for you future!
Workshop on Frontiers in Artificial Spin Ice 2025
The Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems organised the workshop Frontiers in Artificial Spin Ice 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland. This workshop, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, brought together the key players in Artificial Spin Ice and related fields in order to explore recent advances, open questions, and new avenues.
New PostDoc researcher
We welcome Felix Neudecker as a new PostDoc researcher in the Wood Materials Science group. All the best!
Congratulations to Dr. Simon Berlanda for passing his PhD defense!
"Automated sample management for combinatorial antimicrobial drug testing on microdroplet arrays analyzed by microscopy and MALDI-MS"