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Two Awards: Successful PCIM Conference for D-ITET
Bastian Korthauer and Michel Nagel, both PhD students a D-ITET, have won awards at the PCIM Conference 2025 in Nuremberg. Bastian Korthauer from Prof. Jürgen Biela's Laboratory for High Power Electronic Systems (HPE) won the “Best Paper Award” while Michel Nagel, student in the Advanced Power Semiconductor Laboratory (APS) headed by Prof. Ulrike Grossner, received the “Outstanding Presentation Award”.
Empa-researcher Peter Lendway wins first prize at SNSF scientific image competition
Peter Lendway, PhD student in Prof. Mickaël Perrin’s group for Quantum Devices at Empa, was honoured at the annual SNSF competition. He received the first prize in the video category.
Prof. Lana Josipovic received Distinguished Reviewer Award at ASPLOS’25
Prof. Lana Josipovic has been awarded the Distinguished Reviewer Award at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’25). Congratulations!
Interdisciplinary research on retinal implants for blind people: “We want to develop unrivalled spatiotemporal resolution”
As a doctoral student at the Institute of Electromagnetic Field (IEF), Shadi Nashashibi works on the interdisciplinary project e-Retina together with the University of Tübingen on retinal implants. In this interview, he explains his vision of innovative implants that are intended to enable people with retinal diseases to see with high spatiotemporal resolution in the future.
Prof. Gabriela Hug in SRF ‘Echo der Zeit’: "Switzerland could be affected by a major outage"
Prof. Gabriela Hug, Professor for Electric Power Systems, was interviewed by SRF for ‘Echo der Zeit’. Following the major blackout in Spain, she talks about possible reasons and the situation for Switzerland.
Prof. Juerg Leuthold in SRF 10vor10: "Satellites can be used for communication in an emergency"
Prof. Juerg Leuthold, head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, was interviewed for SRF 10vor10, a news programme on Swiss television. In his statement he clarifies how satellites could be used for communication in emergency sitations.
D-ITET Alumna Rabea Rogge back from space
Rabea Rogge, who completed her master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, is back on earth after a four-day expedition with a SpaceX team.
Alessandro Novello wins Hans-Eggenberger-Award 2024
Dr. Alessandro Novello, post-doc in the Integrated Devices, Electronics, And Systems (IDEAS) group led by Prof. Hua Wang, won the Hans-Eggenberger-Award 2024 for the outstanding results of his PhD research on record power density fully integrated power management circuits.