Semester starts with record numbers
720 new bachelor students at D-MAVT – 24 percent growth compared to last year
Maini wins Swiss Physical Society Award
Lucrezia Maini has been awarded the Swiss Physical Society Award 2024 in the Computational Physics category for her doctoral research on acoustic metamaterials to measure temperature with ultrasound for implantable applications.
Stefano Moret receives ERC Grant
Stefano Moret, Ambizione Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for five years and 1.5 million euros. His research project, UNITES, aims to integrate uncertainties into energy and climate models in order to define a more reliable energy policy in the face of unforeseeable future scenarios. UNITES is hosted by the Energy & Process Systems Engineering (EPSE) laboratory, headed by Prof André Bardow.
What if robots had artificial muscles?
Reuters, Soft Robotics Lab, Thomas Buchner; Max Planck Institut
Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize 2024
Paolo Ermanni receives the Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize 2024. This prize, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of adaptive structures and material systems
De Lorenzis receives the IACM Fellows Award
Laura De Lorenzis, Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been awarded the IACM Fellows Award by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). The award recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field of computational mechanics.