MaP Graduate Symposium 2017

On 22 June 2017, the MaP Community met to exchange about latest research projects in the diverse area of materials & processes. The 12^th MaP Symposium provided a platform to exchange and celebrate research achievements from among the community.

The annual MaP Graduate Symposium brought together 240 researchers, students and faculty from ETH Zurich, Empa, PSI and IBM Research, who enjoyed a diverse Downloadprogram (PDF, 362 KB) of 13 selected talks and 60 posters. The abstracts of the talks and posters are available in our Downloadsymposium booklet (PDF, 4.1 MB).

In order to recognise outstanding PhD theses in the field of Materials and Processes, the symposium also hosted the MaP Award Ceremony for the best interdisciplinary PhD thesis which has been completed in the past year within the MaP community. In a competitive pre-selection process, Dr. Luca Hirt (ITET), Dr. Loredana Protesescu (CHAB) and Dr. Jessica Schulz (CHAB) have been nominated as finalists for the MaP Award 2017 and were invited to present highlights of their PhD projects. We would like to congratulate Dr. Loredana Protesescu for winning the MaP Award 2017 and acknowledge the outstanding quality and impact of PhD theses of all finalists.

Enlarged view: MaP Award 2017 — MaP Award 2017 finalists Dr. Jessica Schulz, Dr. Loredana Protesescu (winner) and Dr. Luca Hirt, together with MaP Director Prof. André Studart (second from left).

For the Poster Award competition, the expert jury has nominated three finalists to pitch their posters in 2-minute flash presentations. The audience elected Gastón O. Larrazábal (CHAB) as the winner, and Aurelio A. Rossinelli (MAVT) and Björn Bachmann (MAVT) for the second and third place, respectively. The winner of the People’s Choice Poster Award which was awarded for the first time this year, went to Alessandro Ofner (MATL). Many congratulations to all winners of poster prizes!

In the competition for the Best Image Award, the symposium participants selected the images by Matthias Haug (MATL), Etienne Jeoffroy (MATL / Empa), and Andac Armutlulu (D-MAVT) as the winners. Please have a look at their stunning images!

MaP Image Contest 2017

Matthias Haug (1 ^st place): "The Beauty of Chalk: SEM image take from micro-particles (diameter roughly 10 µm) of two different phases of calcium carbonate (green: vaterite, blue: calcite)"
Etienne Jeoffroy (2 ^nd place): "Particle-Stabilized Foam."
Andac Armutlulu (3 ^rd place): "Cool Lime."

To also include aspects about ‘what it takes to bring a research idea into the market’, ETH spin-offs that emerged from the MaP community recently, have been invited to share their stories with the symposium participants. In this “ETH spin-off special”, representatives of external pageBluAct, external pageHaelixa, external pagenanoleq, external pagenovamem, and external pagescrona talked about their experiences. The following networking apero offered plenty of more opportunities for further personal exchange, thereby closing the symposium day in a relaxed atmosphere.

MaP would like to thank all participants for their active involvement which created again a unique atmosphere at the 2017 edition of the MaP Graduate Symposium!

Impressions of MaP Graduate Symposium 2017

Opening by MaP Director Prof. André Studart Dr. Luca Hirt - finalist for the MaP Award 2017 Dr. Loredana Protesescu - finalist for the MaP Award 2017 Dr. Jessica Schulz - finalist for the MaP Award 2017 ETH spin-off pitch with Dr. Sreenath Bolisetty (CEO BluAct) ETH spin-off pitch with Gediminas Mikutis (CTO Haelixa) ETH spin-off pitch with Dr. Christoph Kellenberger (CEO novamem) ETH spin-off pitch with Dr. Patrick Galliker (CEO scrona) Winner of the MaP People's Choice Poster Award: Alessandro Ofner (left) together with MaP Director Prof. André Studart. Winners of the MaP Best Image Contest (from left to right): Andac Armutlulu (3 ^rd place), Matthias Haug (1 ^st place) and Etienne Jeoffroy (2 ^nd place). Winners of the MaP Poster Award (from left to right): Björn Bachmann (3 ^rd place), Gastón O. Larrazaábal (1 ^st place) and Aurelio A. Rossinelli (2 ^nd place). Many thanks to the Organising Committee of the MaP Graduate Symposium 2017!

photos taken by Anna Stallmann

Many thanks to the sponsors of the MaP Graduate Symposium 2016

Organising Team

Davide Albani (CHAB), Yves Blickenstorfer (ITET), Stefano Danzi (MATL), Chiao-Peng Hsu (MATL), Philippe Knüsel (MAVT), Nadine Lobsiger (CHAB), Tommaso Magrini (MATL), Fajer Mushtaq (MAVT), Kuravi Ramachandra (MAVT), Cathelijn van Nisselroy (ITET), Marta Vidiella del Blanco (BAUG) and Larissa Schefer (MaP)