Surface, Nano, Quantum Science: Three Buzzwords – One Avenue
Event details
| Date | 18.09.2025 |
| Hour | 13:45 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Klaus Kern is Professor Emeritus at EPFL and Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. He also is Honorary Professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His present research interests are in nanoscale science, quantum technology and in microscopy at the atomic limits of space and time. He holds a chemistry degree and PhD from the University of Bonn and a honorary doctors degree from the University of Aalborg. After his doctoral studies he was staff scientist at the Research Center Jülich and visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill before joining the Faculty of EPFL in 1991 and the Max Planck Society in 1998. Professor Kern has authored and coauthored more than 700 scientific publications that have been cited more than 70‘000 times. He has served frequently on advisory committees to universities, professional societies and institutions and has received numerous scientific awards and honors, including the 2008 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the 2016 Van‘t Hoff Prize. Prof. Kern has educated a large number of leading scientists in nanoscale physics and chemistry. During the past twenty-five years he has supervised one hundred PhD students and sixty postdoctoral fellows. Today, more than sixty of his former students and postdocs hold prominent faculty positions at Universities around the globe. |
| Location | |
| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
| Event Language | English |
Symposium on the Occasion of the Retirement of Prof. Klaus Kern at EPFL
chaired by Prof. Thomas Rizzo
13:45-14:00 Profs. Paul Dyson, Dean SB & Thomas Rizzo, Former Dean SB - Welcome Remarks
14:00-14:30 Prof. Pietro Gambardella, ETH Zurich - Classical vs Spin Torques
14:30-15:00 Dr. Lukas Bürgi, Sensirion AG - Sensirion: From ETH Start-Up to Global Leader in Environmental and Flow Sensing
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Dr. Magali Lingenfelder, Helvetia Institute - Spinning Towards Sustainability: The Quantum Revolution in Catalysis
16:00-16:30 Prof. Stephan Rauschenbach, University of Oxford - Native Protein Structure from the Gas Phase to cryoEM and Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition
16:30-17:00 Prof. Klaus Kern, EPFL and MPI for Solid State Research - Concluding Remarks
17:00 End of Symposium - Aperitif
chaired by Prof. Thomas Rizzo
13:45-14:00 Profs. Paul Dyson, Dean SB & Thomas Rizzo, Former Dean SB - Welcome Remarks
14:00-14:30 Prof. Pietro Gambardella, ETH Zurich - Classical vs Spin Torques
14:30-15:00 Dr. Lukas Bürgi, Sensirion AG - Sensirion: From ETH Start-Up to Global Leader in Environmental and Flow Sensing
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Dr. Magali Lingenfelder, Helvetia Institute - Spinning Towards Sustainability: The Quantum Revolution in Catalysis
16:00-16:30 Prof. Stephan Rauschenbach, University of Oxford - Native Protein Structure from the Gas Phase to cryoEM and Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition
16:30-17:00 Prof. Klaus Kern, EPFL and MPI for Solid State Research - Concluding Remarks
17:00 End of Symposium - Aperitif
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- Institut de Physique