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However, the EPFL community is welcome to attend specific lectures without registration if the topic is of interest to their research. Do not hesitate to contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">CECAM Event Manager</a> if you have any question.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Description</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nActive matter has emerged as a central framework for understanding systems composed of self-driven units across scales, ranging from molecular motors and cytoskeletal filaments to animal groups and robotic swarms. Initially, many foundational models focused on macroscopic agents – such as flocks, swarms, and driven granular particles – where simple interaction rules give rise to rich collective phenomena. However, over the past two decades, much of the focus has shifted toward microscopic and mesoscopic active systems, especially in soft and biological matter, supported by the technological development of high-resolution imaging, force measurement, and microfabrication. These advances have driven a more refined theoretical understanding, connecting microscopic dynamics with hydrodynamic and continuum-scale descriptions, and have found applications in biophysics, material science, and cellular biology. <br>\r\nIn parallel, yet often semi-independently, active matter concepts have flourished in ecological and robotic systems. In these domains, the agents – be they insects, birds, autonomous vehicles, or soft robots – not only self-propel and interact, but also sense their environments, make decisions, and adapt their behavior. These systems extend the classical framework of active matter by incorporating elements of intelligence, information processing, and environmental feedback. Notably, such systems can operate far from equilibrium and exhibit coordinated behavior that seems tuned for functional outcomes – navigation, foraging, or collective decision-making.<br>\r\nThese trends point toward a convergence: macroscopic active matter systems capable of intelligent, adaptive, or programmable behavior. This includes both natural systems (e.g., flocking insects, social insects, animal herds) and artificial systems (e.g., modular robots, programmable matter, active granular agents). The interplay of self-propulsion, interaction rules, information exchange, learning or memory, and system-level feedback opens exciting new directions for both fundamental science and applications. Recent efforts in this space combine techniques from statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, robotics, and machine learning.<br>\r\nHowever, the communities working on these different aspects of active matter – soft matter physicists, ecologists, roboticists, and complexity scientists – remain fragmented, with limited opportunity for sustained dialogue. Bridging these communities is essential to develop a shared language, identify unifying principles, and guide the development of new experimental platforms and theoretical frameworks.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>References</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08514-6\" target=\"_blank\">[1] F. Gu, B. Guiselin, N. Bain, I. Zuriguel, D. Bartolo, Nature, <strong>638</strong>, 112-119 (2025)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aav7874\" target=\"_blank\">[2] A. Rafsanjani, K. Bertoldi, A. Studart, Sci. Robot., <strong>4</strong>, (2019)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.34133/cbsystems.0301\" target=\"_blank\">[3] J. Tirado, A. Parvaresh, B. Seyidoğlu, D. Bedford, J. Jørgensen, A. Rafsanjani, Cyborg. Bionic. Syst., <strong>6</strong>, (2025)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-021-00406-2\" target=\"_blank\">[4] J. O’Byrne, Y. Kafri, J. Tailleur, F. van Wijland, Nat. Rev. Phys., <strong>4</strong>, 167-183 (2022)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01704-x\" target=\"_blank\">[5] P. Baconnier, D. Shohat, C. López, C. Coulais, V. Démery, G. Düring, O. Dauchot, Nat. Phys., <strong>18</strong>, 1234-1239 (2022)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02028-0\" target=\"_blank\">[6] A. Cavagna, L. Di Carlo, I. Giardina, T. Grigera, S. Melillo, L. Parisi, G. Pisegna, M. Scandolo, Nat. Phys., <strong>19</strong>, 1043-1049 (2023)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/987549\" target=\"_blank\">[7] M. Bischof, E. Del Giudice, Molecular Biology International, <strong>2013</strong>, 1-19 (2013)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0377\" target=\"_blank\">[8] A. Deutsch, P. Friedl, L. Preziosi, G. Theraulaz, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, <strong>375</strong>, 20190377 (2020)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5688\" target=\"_blank\">[9] N. Kumar, H. Soni, S. Ramaswamy, A. Sood, Nat. Commun., <strong>5</strong>, 4688 (2014)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01028.x\" target=\"_blank\">[10] M. Moussaid, S. Garnier, G. Theraulaz, D. Helbing, Topics in Cognitive Science, <strong>1</strong>, 469-497 (2009)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021050\" target=\"_blank\">[11] R. Bebon, J. Robinson, T. Speck, Phys. Rev. X, <strong>15</strong>, 021050 (2025)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abo6140\" target=\"_blank\">[12] M. Ben Zion, J. Fersula, N. Bredeche, O. Dauchot, Sci. Robot., <strong>8</strong>, (2023)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.110.014606\" target=\"_blank\">[13] J. Fersula, N. Bredeche, O. Dauchot, Phys. Rev. E, <strong>110</strong>, 014606 (2024)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01540-w\" target=\"_blank\">[14] L. Caprini, A. Ldov, R. Gupta, H. Ellenberg, R. Wittmann, H. Löwen, C. Scholz, Commun. Phys., <strong>7</strong>, 52 (2024)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0275\" target=\"_blank\">[15] T. Lengronne, D. Mlynski, S. Patalano, R. James, L. Keller, S. Sumner, Proc. R. Soc. B., <strong>288</strong>, rspb.2021.0275 (2021)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.1226\" target=\"_blank\">[16] T. Vicsek, A. Czirók, E. Ben-Jacob, I. Cohen, O. Shochet, Phys. Rev. Lett., <strong>75</strong>, 1226-1229 (1995)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1360/nso/20240005\" target=\"_blank\">[17] L. Ning, H. Zhu, J. Yang, Q. Zhang, P. Liu, R. Ni, N. Zheng, NSO., <strong>3</strong>, 20240005 (2024)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/adebd3\" target=\"_blank\">[18] G. Volpe, N. Araújo, M. Guix, M. Miodownik, N. Martin, L. Alvarez, J. Simmchen, R. Leonardo, N. Pellicciotta, Q. Martinet, J. Palacci, W. Ng, D. Saxena, R. Sapienza, S. Nadine, J. Mano, R. Mahdavi, C. Beck Adiels, J. Forth, C. Santangelo, S. Palagi, J. Seok, V. Webster-Wood, S. Wang, L. Yao, A. Aghakhani, T. Barois, H. Kellay, C. Coulais, M. van Hecke, C. Pierce, T. Wang, B. Chong, D. Goldman, A. Reina, V. Trianni, G. Volpe, R. Beckett, S. Nair, R. Armstrong, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, <strong>37</strong>, 333501 (2025)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ab6348\" target=\"_blank\">[19] G. Gompper, R. Winkler, T. Speck, A. Solon, C. Nardini, F. Peruani, H. Löwen, R. Golestanian, U. Kaupp, L. Alvarez, T. Kiørboe, E. Lauga, W. Poon, A. DeSimone, S. Muiños-Landin, A. Fischer, N. Söker, F. Cichos, R. Kapral, P. Gaspard, M. Ripoll, F. Sagues, A. Doostmohammadi, J. Yeomans, I. Aranson, C. Bechinger, H. Stark, C. Hemelrijk, F. Nedelec, T. Sarkar, T. Aryaksama, M. Lacroix, G. Duclos, V. Yashunsky, P. Silberzan, M. Arroyo, S. Kale, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, <strong>32</strong>, 193001 (2020)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/529016a\" target=\"_blank\">[20] G. Popkin, Nature, <strong>529</strong>, 16-18 (2016)</a></p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-01-26T14:57:51", "last_modification_date": "2026-01-26T16:42:52", "link_label": "Toward Intelligent Behavior in Macroscopic Active Matter", "link_url": "https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/toward-intelligent-behavior-in-macroscopic-active-matter-1481", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BCH 2103", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202103", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "<strong>Wylie Ahmed, </strong>CNRS ; <strong>Laura Alvarez, </strong>University of Bordeaux ; <strong>Lorenzo Caprini, </strong>Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf ; <strong>Matteo Paoluzzi, </strong>Sapienza University of Rome", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Cornelia Bujenita</strong></a>, CECAM Events and Operations Manager", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119442/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/417/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/442/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71755, "title": "Controllable Generative Models via Test-Time Adaptation", "slug": "controllable-generative-models-via-test-time-adapt", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/controllable-generative-models-via-test-time-adapt", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33081/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33081/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33081/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-07", "end_date": "2026-07-07", "start_time": "09:30:00", "end_time": "11:30:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Martin Rajman<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\ncoming soon<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\ncoming soon", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-04-29T10:00:51", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-08T11:17:00", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 329", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20329", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Hantao Zhang", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120587/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71933, "title": "Controlling and Guiding Generative Models for Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization", "slug": "controlling-and-guiding-generative-models-for-thre", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/controlling-and-guiding-generative-models-for-thre", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-07", "end_date": "2026-07-07", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Martin Rajman<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Mark Pauly<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nOptimizing 3D shapes within the latent spaces of deep generative models is fundamental to computer assisted engineering, yet remains prone to a critical failure mode we term manifold drift: the tendency of gradient-based optimization to move latent vectors away from the manifold of valid shapes. This problem is exacerbated in state-of-the-art 3D shape generative models that operate in increasingly high-dimensional latent spaces where valid shapes occupy a vanishingly small fraction of the full space. Existing mitigation strategies, including latent regularization and flow-matching approaches, either sacrifice expressiveness, demand a difficult trade-off between objective guidance and generative fidelity that remains prone to manifold drift, or are computationally infeasible to scale to modern, large-capacity 3D shape models. We introduce a novel optimizer-corrector framework that alternates between gradient steps for objective minimization and guided flow matching to drive the latent state back to the valid shape manifold. By decoupling objective minimization from flow-based correction, optimizing freely and correcting strictly, this alternating design avoids inherent trade-offs, preserving geometric validity without sacrificing expressiveness while remaining computationally feasible on modern 3D shape models. We demonstrate its effectiveness across generative priors of varying complexity, from simple vector latent spaces to large-scale architectures across a variety of downstream optimization tasks, including aerodynamic drag reduction and object compliance optimization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T13:14:54", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:14:54", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Emilien Seiler", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120840/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71836, "title": "Nanoscale analysis of membrane proteins in native milieu", "slug": "nanoscale-analysis-of-membrane-proteins-in-nativ-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/nanoscale-analysis-of-membrane-proteins-in-nativ-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33156/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33156/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33156/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-07", "end_date": "2026-07-07", "start_time": "15:00:00", "end_time": "16:00:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract: </strong>In this seminar, Moitrayee Bhattacharyya will present her lab’s work on developing experimental platforms to resolve the molecular and functional organization of membrane proteins in their native environments and applying these tools to study membrane proteins that regulate neuronal signaling and neurodegeneration, chronic pain, and cancer. High-resolution quantitative measurements of the oligomeric organization of membrane proteins in native membranes, and how they change under different conditions, are indispensable for understanding membrane protein biology. Her lab reported a single-molecule technique, Native-nanoBleach, to determine the oligomeric distribution of membrane proteins from native membranes at ~10 nm spatial resolution and at endogenous levels of expression. They applied Native-nanoBleach to quantify the oligomerization status of structurally and functionally diverse membrane proteins. Her team has now extended this general technique to organellar membrane proteins and membrane contact sites in the context of neurodegeneration and rare developmental diseases. This general experimental pipeline will usher in a new era of studying membrane protein organization in their native membrane environments under various physiological and clinical conditions.<br>\r\n \r\n<div><strong>Bio</strong>: Moitrayee Bhattacharyya received her Ph.D. in Computational Biophysics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where she used molecular dynamics simulations and network theory to study allosteric communication in protein complexes. She transitioned into experimental biology during her postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Human Frontiers Science Program Long Term Fellow. Here, she used structural biology and single-molecule microscopy to study the molecular mechanism of regulation in a calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase that is critical for learning and memory. She started her lab at Yale University in the summer of 2020. One focus is to develop broad-impact technological platforms that enable high-resolution studies of membrane proteins in native membranes, in her lab and beyond. Her lab also applies these technologies in conjunction with established biophysical and structural methods to understand the molecular mechanisms of membrane-localized signaling in chronic pain and neurodegenerative diseases.</div>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-08T14:43:44", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-11T09:28:30", "link_label": "", "link_url": "https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/moitrayee-bhattacharyya/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Conference room SV.1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sv/it/sv-rooms/#SV1717", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine ", "organizer": "Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL", "contact": "Prof. Florian Schueder", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120702/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71930, "title": "Generative models for black-box optimization of complex objectives", "slug": "generative-models-for-black-box-optimization-of-co", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/generative-models-for-black-box-optimization-of-co", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-09", "end_date": "2026-07-09", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Nicolas Flammarion<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Alexander Mathis<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nMany high-impact problems in science and engineering reduce to optimizing a complex objective, where each evaluation is costly and often unreliable: physical experiments fail, simulators diverge, and stochastic systems return noisy feedback. Classical black-box optimizers struggle in this regime, where evaluation budgets are tight and the feasible region is hard to characterize a priori. Our work investigates how the statistical expressivity of modern generative samplers can be leveraged in black-box optimization. We propose that these samplers enable efficient navigation of feasible sets and optimization of geometrically complex objectives under limited, unreliable observations. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nTwo complementary lines of work have already been studied. The main one, SPARROW, demonstrated that a sampler-driven optimizer can substantially reduce the number of function calls needed to maximize complex and unreliable objectives. A parallel line established that samplers can be steered to satisfy hard constraints without sacrificing the statistical diversity of the generated samples. Because SPARROW imposes minimal assumptions on the underlying sampler, these constrained samplers can drive it directly, opening a path to constrained black-box optimization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBuilding on these results, two directions are planned. The first is theoretical: a deeper mathematical study of sampler-driven optimization, drawing on the broader literature on sample-efficient black-box optimization, in order to derive stronger guarantees and more efficient algorithms. The second is applied: applying the methods to concrete domains and exploiting the structure those domains expose to sharpen performance beyond what a pure black-box treatment can achieve.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe applications of low-budget black-box optimization are diverse, including engineering design (e.g. aerodynamic shape optimization, mechanical components), scientific discovery (e.g. protein and molecule design under synthesizability and stability constraints), and the safety and security of opaque ML systems (e.g. query-efficient adversarial probing, red-teaming of black-box models).<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T12:53:32", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:09:04", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Edouard Dufour", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120837/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71816, "title": "Sources and chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the central Arctic", "slug": "sources-and-chemical-composition-of-natural-and--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/sources-and-chemical-composition-of-natural-and--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33139/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33139/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33139/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-31", "end_date": "2026-07-31", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. J. 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Interested persons can register now via <a href=\"https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/94201a7d-8d07-4f25-9fde-6d71f474091b@d3df0f6b-32ad-4977-a262-b7727bdb4257\">this link</a>.</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe fellowship covers:\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>subsistence costs,</li>\r\n\t<li>flat-rate for travel expenses</li>\r\n\t<li>contribution to research and conference costs.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nIn addition, fellowship holders can apply for a <strong>return grant</strong> (3-12 months) to finance their initial period of research after returning to Switzerland.<br>\r\nThe return grant includes:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>salary</li>\r\n\t<li>social security contributions</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Conditions:</strong><br>\r\n- <strong>Eligibility window</strong>: application possible as early as 9 months before PhD defense, up to 3 years after PhD defense (net academic age)<br>\r\n- <strong>Nationality</strong>: call open to Swiss nationals and to holders of valid Swiss permanent residence, residence or cross-border commuter permit, married to a Swiss national or co-habiting with a Swiss national in a registered partnership. 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