News
The following feed highlights activities and achievements of scientists from the MaP community.
Thin film lithium niobate on sapphire for integrated mid-infrared modulator
We present a broadband, high speed electro optic Mach Zehnder modulator designed for operation in the emerging mid infrared range.
Talk by Veronica at the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference 2026
Veronica gave a talk entitled "Waste-Derived Materials for Circular Transient Batteries: The Hidden Power of Coffee and Shrimps" at the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference 2026 (MATSUS26) in Barcelona in March 2026.
Well done Veronica!
Congrats to Clara for winning the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Dr Clara Gomez will join our group with her Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1st July, 2026! She will combine muscle and bone tissue on-chip to study bone mechanoadaptation. Congratulations!
"We control disorder"
[MaP Student Portrait] Benjamin Fahl is a second-year doctoral student in the Disordered Materials Group led by Prof. Arkadiy Simonov at the Department of Materials (D-MATL). He values MaP as a broader community that connects him to other researchers.
New master’s students are joining the group
Welcome Vanessa and Zsombor!
Polymorph-specific molecular sensing
We provide fundamental insights into the polymorph-specific transduction of molecular information by combining experimental and computational methodologies. Collaborative work led by Matteo D'Andria and Meng Yin together with Tohoku University and University of Patras.
Unraveling the chemistry of peatlands
Scientists from ETH Zurich’s Fraley Lab (D-CHAB) and Schölmerich Lab (D-USYS) have recently set out to study the peatlands of the UNESCO Entlebuch Biosphere Reserve in Switzerland. Their collaborative work is yielding new insights into the chemistry of protected peatland ecosystems. The project, recently featured in the magazine “Mein Entlebuch,” aims to contribute to well-founded conservation and restoration strategies that could mitigate the effects of global climate change.
You've tied thousands of knots. Science is still catching up.
Last week, MaP's Soft Talks series welcomed Prof. Pedro Reis from EPFL for a wonderfully tactile journey into the physics of knots -- something every one of us has fumbled with since childhood, yet which turns out to be a genuinely hard mechanics problem.
Muskeln statt Motoren
Read the interview with Professor Katzschmann part of the article Künstliche Intelligenz lernt Laufen published in Handelszeitung, Issue No. 6.
Heralded quantum interference in integrated lithium niobate
By making use of advanced nonlinearity engineering techniques, we implement a scheme of generating high-purity photon pairs directly on-chip.
