Join us for this year’s Research Day, featuring four inspiring keynote speakers and ENAC young researchers presenting their latest projects during a lively poster session.
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We are delighted to announce the EEG Research Day 2026 that will be held on June 8, 2026 at the Charlotte Olivier auditorium, CHUV Lausanne.
\r\nThe one-day event brings together the EEG community across the CIBM founding partner institutions CHUV, UNIL, EPFL, UNIGE and HUG. The aim is to provide new opportunities for collaborations and improve the visibility of the EEG research in the Lemanic region.
During a one-week Summer Workshop in Central London, students will explore drawing as a fundamental tool in architecture and engineering, engaging with the site as both a built environment and a historically transformed place. Developed in collaboration with Drawing Matter, London, the workshop integrates hands-on drawing with research into the Drawing Matter Collection, a unique archive of architectural drawings.
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\r\nProject Team 2025
\r\nDr. Patricia Guaita, architect, lecturer, IA ENAC EPFL
\r\nRaffael Baur, architect and external lecturer ENAC EPFL
\r\nNiall Hobhouse, collector and writer, Drawing Matter Director
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\r\nInvited expert
\r\nMatthew Wells, Lecturer in Architectural Studies at University of Manchester
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From the earliest dreams of travel imagined in literature to space missions shaping scientific research today, the Moon remains a horizon that is at once scientific, historical, and symbolic.
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\r\nOn the occasion of the Artemis II mission, the Library highlights its collections dedicated to the Moon and to space exploration: Astronauts’ memoirs, scientific works, NASA archives, and works of fiction. Explore the many ways in which the Moon and the Universe have been imagined, studied, and told.
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\r\nAll the documents on display are available to borrow under usual conditions.
Zhenfeng Xi
\r\nCollege of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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\r\nAbstract:
\r\nNowadays almost all artificial synthetic nitrogen-containing organic compounds (N-C bonding) are prepared via ammonia (NH3, the Haber-Bosch product). The ultimate research goal of our group is to synthesize nitrogen-containing organic compounds efficiently and directly from N2 gas as the nitrogen source, bypassing the NH3-depended synthetic pathway, mainly via metal-mediated or catalyzed dinitrogen functionalization.1
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\r\nAt this presentation, I will briefly introduce two results recently realized in my research group. One result is about the transformation and mechanism on efficient first-step and second-step N2 electrophilic functionalization of LnCr-N2 metal dinitrogen complexes.2 The other result is on the synthesis of nitrogen-containing organic compounds via LiNCNLi formed from N2 gas and carbon by synergizing the heterogeneous synthetic approach with the homogeneous synthetic methodology.3
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\r\nReferences:
\r\n1. Lv, Z.-J.; Wei, J.; Zhang, W.-X.; Chen, P.; Deng, D.; Shi, Z.-J.; Xi, Z. Natl. Sci. Rev. 2020, 7, 1564-1583.
\r\n2. (a) Wang, G.-X.; Wang, X.; Jiang, Y.; Chen, W.; Shan, C.; Zhang, P.; Wei, J.; Ye, S.; Xi, Z. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 9746-9754; (b) Wang, X.; Wu, Y.; Wang, Y.; Sun, R.; Wei, J.; Xi, Z. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 35413.
\r\n3. Wu, L.-J.; Wang, Q.; Guo, J.; Wei, J.; Chen, P.; Xi, Z. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202219298.
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Thesis Directors: Prof. F. Maréchal, Prof. J. Luterbacher
\r\nChemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11461
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\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker