MaP Graduate Symposium 2019
The 14th edition of the MaP Graduate Symposium took place on 03 July 2019. More than 225 participants joined the yearly gathering of Materials and Processes researchers in the main building of ETH Zurich.
This year's Download program (PDF, 616 KB) of the MaP Graduate Symposium featured 19 talks and 45 poster presentations. For the first time, pitches have been introduced to the program giving the speakers the opportunity to present their project in a nutshell and interact with the symposium's participants at the speakers' corner afterwards. A complete list of talk and poster abstracts can be found in the Download symposium booklet (PDF, 7.6 MB).
The MaP Award 2019 for the most promising PhD thesis at ETH in the field of Materials and Processes was awarded to Dr. Vladimir Paunović (Advanced Catalysis Engineering, D-CHAB). We would also like to recognise the two other MaP Award 2019 finalists, Dr. Nicolas Broguière (Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication, D-HEST) and Dr. Manuel Schaffner (Complex Materials, D-MATL) for their promising PhD theses.
The five MaP Poster Prize finalists - chosen by the Poster Jury during the Poster Session - presented their poster in 2-minutes flash poster presentations using paper and pens only. Nevena Paunović (D-CHAB, 1st), Iacopo Mattich (D-MATL, 2nd) and Wilhelm Woigk (D-MATL, 3rd) have been selected subsequently by the audience as the winners of the competition. The MaP People's Choice Poster Prize 2019 was awarded to Iacopo Mattich (D-MATL) for his poster on "Functional Materials Made From Upscaled Microfluidic Processes".
In addition and for the first time, two additional Poster Awards have been granted by external page BASF and external page SuSoS. The "BASF Advanced Materials & Systems Poster Award" has been awarded to Tian Liu (D-MATL) for her poster on transparent and flexible thin-film supercapacitor/hybrid-supercapacitors. Joan Sendra Garcia (D-MATL) was awarded with the "SuSoS Surface Innovation Award" for his poster on non-destructive microstructure and mechanical characterization through optical probing.
All symposium participants have been given the chance to vote for the most beautiful MaP image in the Best Image Contest. This year's first place was a split between Marianna Diamantopoulou's (D-MAVT) and Murielle Schreck's & Xavier Guichard's (both D-MATL) images. The third place was taken by Dominic Gerber (D-MATL).
MaP Best Image 2019
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Marianna Diamantopoulou - 1st place: "Blue and red steps towards the stiffest isotropic metamaterials." -
Murielle Schreck & Xavier Guichard - 1st place: "When Light Meets Light(ness). A titania nanoparticle-based aerogel containing gold nanoparticles on top of a dandelion". -
Dominic Gerber - 3rd place: "Calcium carbonate crystals grown at a hydrogel-glass interface."
Another novel special feature of the MaP Graduate Symposium was the My Story Session. During this session, Michele Magno (external page Mithras), Gabriel Puebla-Hellmann (external page QZabre) and Mariia Timofeeva (PolarNon) were given the opportunity to talk about their personal stories when translating science into meaningful applications.
external page avantama, external page BASF, external page Hilti, external page Mettler Toledo, external page Oerlikon Balzers, external page Sensirion, external page Siga & external page SuSoS complemented the symposium presentations with short and informative presentations giving a very broad overview of companies active in the field of Materials and Processes. During the closing apéro riche, all symposium participants got another chance to interact with other participants and company representatives to exchange and celebrate cutting-edge research topics in the field of Materials and Processes.
Impressions of MaP Graduate Symposium 2019
Talk by Dr. Michele Magno (Mithras)
Talk by MaP Award Winner Dr. Vladimir Paunovic
Poster Flash Presentation by Stefano Danzi Winners of the MaP Best Image Contest (from left to right): Marianna Diamantopoulou, Dominic Gerber, Murielle Schreck & Xavier Guichard together with MaP Director Prof. André Studart (middle) Winners of the MaP Poster Awards (from left to right): Joan Sendra Garcia, Nevena Paunović, Iacopo Mattich and Wilhelm Woigk together with MaP Director Prof. André Studart (middle) Presentation by avantama Presentation by Mettler Toledo Industry Apero with BASF Industry Apero with Siga
Many thanks to the Organising Committee of the MaP Graduate Symposium 2019! Many thanks to the Organising Committee of the MaP Graduate Symposium 2019!
Organizing Committee
Marianne Aellen (D-MAVT), Giovanni Bovone (D-MAVT), Dhananjay Deshmukh (D-MAVT), Romain Dubey (D-CHAB), Stefano Menasce (D-MATL), Andrea Morandi (D-PHYS), Selina Kaiser (D-CHAB), Paulina Pacak (D-HEST), Andrea Testa (D-MATL), Flavia Timpu (D-PHYS), Jolanda Vetsch (MaP), and Larissa Schefer (MaP).
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