🎓 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 the next IMX talk 🗓️ Wednesday, 1 October 2025 at 10:15 🎙️ Dr. Marios H. Michael, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems 🔎 Interlayer coherence at room temperature in high Tc cuprates and photo-induced superconductivity Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

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...

👏 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...

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...

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...

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...

🚀 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.

🎓 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.

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

🎉 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...

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...

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

Congratulations to Dr. Sophia Thiele from the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Supramolecular Materials from Sustainable Polyesters: Structure, Dynamics, and Performance" under Prof. Holger Frauenrath's supervision.

Don't miss the next IMX talk: 📅 16 July 2025 at 11:00 🎙️ Prof. Mark R. Marten, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 🔎 Using a genetic approach to develop mycelial materials Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Barbey-Binggeli from the Laboratory for in situ nanomaterials characterisation with electrons (INE) for successfully defending his PhD thesis under Prof. Vasiliki Tileli's supervision. memento.epfl.ch/event/liquid...

🏆 Congratulations to Prof Francesco Stellacci from Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant for his project Engineering Protein Interactions Using Small Molecules Find out more: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-re...

"Don't miss the next IMX talk: 📅 12 June 2025 at 17:00 🎙️ Prof. Giovanni M. Pavan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 🔎 From microscopic dynamics to dominant fluctuations to complex emergent behaviors in self-organizing matter Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/talk-f...

Check the portrait of Dr. Pierre-Etienne Bourban, senior scientist from the LPAC at EPFL and director of the DLL Materials and Bioengineering, who was named best teacher for 2024 in the materials science section. Thank you Pierre-Etienne for your commitment! actu.epfl.ch/news/my-job-...

"Don't miss the next IMX talk: 📅 5 June 2025 at 9:30 🎙️ Prof. Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania 🔎 Seeing the Hidden Interface: Revealing Nanoscale Mechanisms of Contact, Adhesion, and Wear by in situ Experiments Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

Composites and low carbon with Veronique Michaud, head of the Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites (LPAC) and Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos, head of the Group of Composite Mechanics from the Civil Engineering Institute 👇 actu.epfl.ch/news/composite

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Shreyas Joglekar from the Laboratory of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Magnonics (LMGN) for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Magnon assisted magnetization reversal in NiFe-YIG hybrid nanostructures” under Prof. Dirk Grundler's supervision.

Don't miss the 11th IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 26 May 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology 🔎 From supramolecular polymers to functional materials and systems Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the next IMX talk: 📅 22 May 2025 at 13:30 🎙️ Prof. Allison Beese, Penn State University 🔎 Towards adoption of monotonic and graded additively manufactured components Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta... memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-ta...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Huguenin-Dumittan from the Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling @labcosmo.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Mathematical Analysis and Optimization of Features for Atomistic Machine Learning” under Prof. Michele Ceriotti's supervision

"Don't miss the 10th IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 19 May 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Laura Herz from Oxford University, UK 🔎 Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the next IMX Colloquium: 📅 12 May 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Emily Cranston, University of British Columbia Vancouver 🔎 Surface Engineering of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Bioproduct Development Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Yesterday was the third IMX lunch of the year! Many thanks to Martin Luttmann from DQML for his very insightful presentation entitled "PyMoDAQ: Modular Data Acquisition with Python"

Don't miss the eighth IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 5 May 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Anton van der Ven from @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🔎 First-principles statistical mechanics as applied to Li-ion and Na-ion battery materials Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the seventh IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 28 April 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Dr. Chaoqun Dong from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 🔎 Soft Electronics: Multimaterial Innovations for Wearable and Biomedical Devices Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

📢 We are pleased to invite the @materials-epfl.bsky.social staff to the third IMX lunch of 2025 entitled "PyMoDaq: using Python for FAIR data acquisition" 📅 29 April 2025 ⌚️ 12:15-13:15 🎙️ Martin Luttmann from DQML Registration required: go.epfl.ch/IMXlunchS3E3

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Meet Jaydeepkumar Oza from @empa-materials.bsky.social and EPFL for successfully defending his PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Christian Leinenbach and Prof. Moslem Shahverdi.

Yesterday we welcomed around twenty high school students within the Institute of Materials. Thanks to Claire Blaga and Raphaël Lemerle, from Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials (LMSC), who gave them a presentation on semiconductor materials and their applications.

Don't miss the sixth IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 14 April 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Carl Thompson from MIT 🔎 Morphological Stability of Thin Films and Micro/Nano-Structures Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Laura Roset Julià from the Supramolecular NanoMaterials and Interfaces Laboratory (SuNMIL) for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Proteins as sustainable and recyclable polymers for a circular economy in bioplastics” under Prof. Francesco Stellacci's supervision.

Yesterday, we had the chance to attend an IMX seminar by Prof. Susie Speller from @ox.ac.uk. Many thanks for her insightful presentation entitled "Radiation damage of high temperature superconductors for fusion magnets" #IMXcolloquium

Don't miss the fifth IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 31 March 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Avi Schroeder from Technion 🔎 Brain-targeted drug delivery systems and AI-generated synthetic biology medications Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Don't miss the fourth IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 24 March 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Susie Speller from University of Oxford 🔎 Radiation damage of high temperature superconductors for fusion magnets Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

🚀 Boost your brand’s visibility at AAMS 2025! 🚀 Join AAMS 2025 as a sponsor and connect with top industry & academic leaders in Additive Manufacturing! 📅 Sept 3-5, EPFL Neuchâtel (Microcity) Learn more: alloysforam.org/sponsors/

📢 📆 the SNSF Starting Grants call 2026 will be open from 1 February 2026 to 5 May 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Find more information on our website:

Yesterday we welcomed a school class to the Institute of Materials as part of visits organized by the EPFL Science Outreach Department. Thanks to Brian Ridenour, Greta Cocchi and François Rivat from SMaL who gave them a fascinating insight into Materials Science and Engineering!

Don't miss the third IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 17 March 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Davide De Focatiis from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 🔎 New test methods in support of composites manufacturing research: a tale of two fixtures Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...

Today, we had the chance to attend an IMX Colloquium by Prof. Kislon Voïtchovsky from @durham-university.bsky.social. Many thanks for his insightful presentation entitled "Probing the nanoscale structure and dynamics or solid-liquid interfaces: from minerals to complex biological membranes"

We are excited to release the program for this spring's IMX Colloquium! These seminars are open to the EPFL School of Engineering and EPFL communities. Many thanks to Gregor Jotzu and Fabien Sorin for the organization and Kewei Zhou for the poster.

The Alloys for Additive Manufacturing Symposium (AAMS) 2025 will take place from September 3 to 5 on the EPFL campus in Neuchâtel (Microcity). Want to submit an abstract to share your work? Abstract Submission: alloysforam.org/abstract-sub... Deadline: 30 April 2025

Yesterday we welcomed a school class to the Institute of Materials as part of visits organized by the EPFL Science Outreach Department. Thanks to Stella Laperrousaz and Laurène Tribolet from FIMAP who gave them a fascinating insight into Materials Science and Engineering!

Yesterday, we had the chance to attend an IMX seminar by Dr. Cyril Cayron from @materials-epfl.bsky.social. Many thanks for his insightful presentation entitled "Martensite, twins and math" #IMXcolloquium

Don't miss the second IMX Colloquium of this spring: 📅 10 March 2025 at 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Kislon Voitchovsky from Durham University 🔎 Probing the nanoscale structure and dynamics or solid-liquid interfaces: from minerals to complex biological membranes Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-co...