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Chemistry at EPFL - Mission & Challenge
We appreciate your interest in our Institute. We provide an educational and research environment in chemical sciences and engineering for undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates.
The chemical sciences are of vital importance in the modern world, and the research undertaken in our Institute spans fundamental studies in theoretical chemistry and biochemistry to applications in devices and engineering. Fundamental research in our Institute led to the discovery of dye sensitized solar cells and drugs and diagnostics developed within our Institute are now in widespread use. We continue to take a leading role in all aspects of chemistry including research at the interface of biology and physics as well as in sustainability and nanoscience.
The links on this page should help to provide a more detailed picture of our Institute and reveal that it is exciting environment in which to conduct research in the chemical sciences and engineering.
RESEARCH AREAS
NEWS
December 3, 2009 - Professor Michael Grätzel makes the list of "Top Ten (most cited) Chemists" of the last decade (Thomson Reuters).
November 25, 2009 - The Ruzicka Prize 2009 is awarded to Prof. Karl Gademann, head of the Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis at the EFPL, who is rewarded for his achievements in the field of the chemistry of natural substances. The prize, named after the Nobel Laureate, Leopold Ruzicka, has been awarded to outstanding young scientists in chemistry since 1957. (Press release, pdf)
November 2009 - MER Dr Sandrine Gerber (Laboratory of Glycochemistry and Asymmetric Synthesis) will receive the Werner Prize 2010 of the Swiss Chemical Society. The Werner Prize is awarded annually to a promising young Swiss scientist or scientist working in Switzerland for outstanding independent chemical research (http://www.swiss-chem-soc.ch/awards/werner.html). The Award Ceremony will be held at the occasion of the Spring Meeting 2010 of the Swiss Chemical Society on February 10, 2010 at the University of Bern.
October 2009 - SNSF professorships: if you are thinking to apply for a SNSF professorship at the EPFL, in all fields of chemistry, you are invited to contact the Director of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (Prof Paul Dyson, Paul.Dyson@epfl.ch).
October 5 -Prof. Ahmed Zewail , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999, will give the opening lecture for the ISIC Seminars 2009-2010 in CO1 at 5.15 pm. His lecture, entitled "Seeing with Electron in Four Dimensions", will describe applications of ultra-fast spectroscopy across the area of physics, chemistry and biology.
September 7 -Prof. Michael Grätzel (Laboratory of Photonic and Interface) has been awarded the prestigious 2009 Balzan Prize. (official prize press release).
August 2009 - Prof. Jean-Claude Bünzli (Laboratory of Lanthanides Supramolecular Chemistry) has received an research award during the last International Conference on f-Element hold in Cologne, Germany. In addition, the front cover page of the next issue of The Analyst will feature our results on cancerous tissue imaging.
July 2009 - Prof. Hubert Girault (Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry) has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
May 2009 - Mélanie Abonnenc (LEPA) receives the 2009 Dimitris N. Chorafas Award for her outstanding PhD Thesis". For her remarkable PhD thesis dedicated to the development of miniaturized analytical systems for mass spectrometry based protein studies.
April 2009 - Agnieszka Kapalka-Cieciwa (Group of Electrochemical Engineering - GGEC)
has been awarded one of the two EPFL Doctorate Prizes for her PhD thesis (2008) entitled:
"Reactivity of electrogenerated free hydroxyl radicals and activation of dioxygen on boron-doped diamond electrodes".
March 2009 - At its meeting on March 10-11, the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology appointed Paul Dyson a full professor of inorganic chemistry, Kai Johnsson a full professor of organic chemistry, Ursula Röthlisberger a full professor of computational chemistry and Kay Severin a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the School of Basic Sciences.
March 2009 - Professor Michael Grätzel has been awarded Honorary Doctor Degree by University of Hasselt, Belgium.
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MEETING - WORKSHOP
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
EPFL SB ISIC-Direction
CH B3 391
Station 6
CH-1015 Lausanne
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Director: Prof. Paul Joseph DYSON
Secretariat: e-mail
Tel.:+41(0)21 693 36 11
Fax:+41(0)21 693 55 50
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