Esther AmstadEsther Amstad studied material science at ETH in Zurich. She also carried out her PhD thesis at the same University under the supervision of Prof. Marcus Textor; for her thesis, she worked on the surface modification and steric stabilization of oxide nanoparticles. As a postdoctoral fellow, she joined the experimental condensed soft matter group of David A. Weitz at Harvard University where she used droplet based microfluidics to assemble different types of functional micro- and nanomaterials. In addition, she developped new microfluidic devices that enable the production of very small, airborne drops as well as devices that produce highly monodisperse emulsion drops at a very high throughput. In June 2014, Esther joined the material science department (IMX) of EPFL where she is leading the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL).
Hannes Markus PeterCurrent work
I am a microbial ecologist and mainly interested in factors shaping bacterial communities and functioning in freshwater ecosystems. I use combinations of field observations, experiments and molecular techniques to test hypotheses regarding the assembly of microbial communities, the influence of environmental variability and relationships between diversity and funcioning. I enjoy working in alpine environments, which are sensitive to climate change and represent excellent model systems.
Teaching
Andreas ZüttelTeaching & PhD PhD Students Boyu Ouyang, Wai Kwan Liu, Guillaume Bérenger Rod, Aleksandar Mihaylov Mikov, Rui Li, Akhil Varma Penmathsa Past EPFL PhD Students Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Kun Zhao, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Mo Li, Jie Zhang, Youngdon Ko, Cedric David Koolen, Thi Ha My Pham, Zohreh Akbari, Yasemen Kuddusi Courses Thermodynamics of energy conversion and storage ChE-414 The course is an introduction to the energy conversion. It focusseson the thermodynamics of the engines a
Wendy Lee QueenTeaching & PhD PhD Students Pratap Narayan Soni, Pattaraphon Rodlamul, Matthieu Meoli, Olivier Thomas Smith, Sanjay Venkatachalam, Anne Faustine Sido Belin, Christopher William Gardner, Lorenzo Meneghin Past EPFL PhD Students Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jocelyn Richard Roth, Timo Markus Oskar Felder Courses Chemical engineering practice ChE-309 This course provides the students with practical experience wit
Tom Ian BattinTeaching & PhD PhD Students Zhe Liu, Aleksei Dukat, Martin Boutroux, Jingyi Hou, Léa Francomme, Stefan Eckensperger Past EPFL PhD Students Amin Niayifar, David Scheidweiler, Asa Lovisa Viktoria Horgby, Marta Boix Canadell, Pier Luigi Segatto, Anna Depetris, Jade Brandani, Massimo Bourquin, Jonas Paccolat, David Touchette Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Jeremy Wong Courses Aquatic ecosystems ENV-321 Inland waters are now being recognized are major players of global biogeochemical cycle
David Lyndon EmsleyCurrent Work
Our research centres on the development of new NMR spectroscopy experiments to determine the atomic-level structure and dynamics of complex materials and molecular systems, to solve a range of problems across disciplines.
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Ray Cowen, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Máté Visegrádi, Ruben Rodriguez Madrid Past EPFL PhD Students Dominik Józef Kubicki, Arthur César Pinon, Albert Hofstetter, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Baptiste Busi, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir, Martins Balodis, Aditya Mishra
