🎓 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

🎉 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-...

🎓 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.

💡Exciting innovation from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices! Prof. Fabien Sorin and his team have developed a innovative stretchable electronic fiber. Read more in Nature Electronics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟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...

🎓 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.

Are you or do you know a smart, motivated Master student in a materials-adjacent area interested in doing a research project at EPFL? The @materials-epfl.bsky.social MX Fellowship applications open today sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello.... Choose a lab, send your file, and spend up to six months at EPFL!

🎓 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

🎓 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!

🌍 EPFL’s Institute of Materials (IMX) is offering 6-month funded fellowships for external Master’s students in Materials Science. Join one of IMX’s world-class labs and gain hands-on research experience at the cutting edge of materials science. 👉 lnkd.in/enNeKmTh

🎓 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.

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...