News & D-MATL Events
Nicola Spaldin Awarded Carus Medal by Leopoldina
Professor Nicola Spaldin, a pioneer in multiferroic materials, will receive the prestigious Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Nicola Spaldin receives the 2024 award for best teaching
The aim of the Award for Best Teaching is to promote quality teaching at tertiary level, and to strengthen Switzerland as a science and research location.
Nicola Spaldin receives an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast
Congratulations to Nicola Spaldin on receiving an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast - Doctor of Science for distinction in Science.
Alberto Carta won a poster prize at the Nanoscience Reunion in Groningen
Congratulations to Alberto for winning the prize for his poster "solid_dmft: Grey-boxing the description of strongly correlated materials" on the occasion of the 20-years-of Nanosience celebration.
Interview with Nicola Spaldin ahead of the 2023 Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award Ceremony
Further to our news of March 15th about Prof. Nicola Spaldin receiving the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award, Chalmers University of Technology has published an interview with her.
Prof. Yoshinori Tokura from RIKEN gives a seminar talk on July 28th, 2023
We are delighted to announce Yoshinori Tokura's talk on "Extended multiferroics for emergent electromagnetic phenomena" taking place at 11:00 at HIT E51.
Jonathan Schmidt wins the Dorothea Erxleben Prize for the best doctoral thesis
We congratulate our postdoc Jonathan Schmidt on the Dorothea-Erxleben-Prize awarded to him for his dissertation "Machine Learning the Thermodynamic Stability of Crystal Structures".
Nicola Spaldin receives the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award
The laureate of the 2023 Lise Meitner Award is Professor Nicola Spaldin, who is awarded for "Fundamental theoretical contributions and discoveries in the field of multiferroics".
Bastien Grosso won the IBM Research Forschungspreis 2022
Dr. Bastien Francesco Grosso was awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis for his outstanding PhD thesis.
Nicola Spaldin received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
At the Hamburg Planetarium, the materials researcher from ETH Zurich was honored for her outstanding work, which led to the development of a new class of materials - the so-called multiferroics. These could enable forward-looking applications in microelectronics, such as the construction of ultra-fast data storage devices or highly sensitive sensors.