Materials Science & Engineering @EPFL

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 18 May 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Warren Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 🔎 The delivery challenges of nanoparticles to solid tumours Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 11 May 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Claus Ropers, Max Planck Göttingen, Germany 🔎 Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

🎉 Congrats to Dr. @sweettoothmars from the Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry (TIC) Group for her PhD thesis “Growth and Dissolution Mechanisms of Siderite Scale on Iron under Environmental Transients” under Dr. Anna Neus Igual Munoz and Dr. Stefano Mischler's supervision.

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 4 May 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Katharina Maniura, EMPA 🔎Instructive soft biomaterials for tissue response by design: steering events at the biointerface Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 27 April 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom, MIT / MacroCycle, USA 🔎Polymers for people and planet - from solving problems in the lab to solving problems in the world Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 20 April 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Manfred Fiebig, ETHZ 🔎 Domain walls in multiferroics and multiferroic domain walls Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join the next IMX talk 🗓️ Thursday, April 16 2026 at 16:15 🎙️ Dr. Shaoqing Cui, Zhejiang University, China 🔎 Sustainable green bio-polycarbonates from bio-based feedstocks and CO2 toward carbon-neutral goals Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-talk…

Join the next IMX talk 🗓️ Thursday, April 16 2026 at 15:30 🎙️ Prof. Zhenglong Li, Zhejiang University, China 🔎 Value-added utilization of biomass and CO2 for sustainable aviation fuels and biomaterials Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-talk…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 13 April 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. @ZhengmaoLu, EPFL 🔎 Surface engineering for phase change heat and mass transfer: controlling nucleation and bubble dynamics Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join the next IMX talk 🗓️ Wednesday, April 1 2026 at 16:15 🎙️ Prof. @Frank_Leibfarth, Department of Chemistry @UNC 🔎 Controlling Reactivity and Selectivity for the Discovery of Sustainable Thermoplastics Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/controll…

Join the next IMX talk 🗓️ Friday, 20 March 2026 at 15:15 🎙️ Prof. Philipp Werner, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 🔎 Nonequilibrium dynamical mean field theory Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/nonequil…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 23 March 2026 🕐 14:15 🎙️ Prof. Filip Du Prez, Ghent University, Belgium 🔎 How to unlock the industrial potential of reprocessable thermosets through dynamic covalent chemistry Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 23 March 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Chiara Ciccarelli, University of Cambridge, UK 🔎 Picosecond spin pumping from antiferromagnets Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join the next IMX talk 🗓️Friday, March 20 at 15:30 🎙️Dr. Giovanni Pizzi, Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data, PSI 🔎From first-principles simulations to autonomous discovery: building a computational ecosystem for accelerated materials design go.epfl.ch/imx

✨ A promising step toward faster bone repair! The Soft Materials Laboratory, led by Prof. Esther Amstad, has developed a 3D-printable scaffold that accelerates bone growth, using an enzyme-driven process that works at room temperature. 🔗 Read more here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 16 March 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Laura de Laporte, RWTH Aachen, Germany 🔎 Interactive and anisometric colloidal building blocks for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join the IMX talk 🗓️ Wed. 18 March at 11:00 🎙️ Prof. Taichi Goto, Research Institute of Electrical Communications, Tohoku University 🔎 Tailored magnetic garnet films with engineered magnetization for spin-wave and magneto-optical applications More: go.epfl.ch/imx_talk

Join the next IMX talk 🗓️ Tuesday, 10 March 2026 at 11:15 in BM5202 🎙️ Dr. Bruce Normand, Paul Scherrer Institute 🔎 Two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy for composite collective excitations

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 9 March 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Alessandra Lanzara, UC Berkeley, USA 🔎 Switching the Quantum World Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…

Join us for the next IMX Colloquium 🗓️ Monday, 2 March 2026 🕐 13:15 🎙️ Prof. Prof. Robert Grass, ETHZ, Switzerland 🔎 DNA-of-things: Storing digital data in materials using DNA Find out more: memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-coll…