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Highlights of the Science and Life of Peter Varga (1946-2018)

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Peter Varga has passed on October 27, 2018. His pioneering discoveries of chemical resolution at the atomic scale on surface alloys, atomic resolution of ultrathin alkali halides, nucleation of bcc iron in ultrathin films, and the microscopic structure of ...

2020

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

We present results of a survey conducted with researchers and practitioners involved in a Swiss National Research Programme on steering energy consumption. We analyse what motivates practitioners and researchers to engage in a collaborative research projec ...

2020

Prepare Scientists to Engage in Science‐Policy

Julia Schmale

There is a dire need for deeper science‐policy engagement to face recent developments such as entering into the Anthropocene and our dependence as a species on technological and scientific advancements. However, there is a lack of preparedness and training ...

2020

Active biomaterials for mechanobiology

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann

Active biomaterials offer novel approaches to study mechanotransduction in mammalian cells. These material systems probe cellular responses by dynamically modulating their resistance to endogenous forces or applying exogenous forces on cells in a temporall ...

2020

Workflows in AiiDA: Engineering a high-throughput, event-based engine for robust and modular computational workflows

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber

Over the last two decades, the field of computational science has seen a dramatic shift towards incorporating high-throughput computation and big-data analysis as fundamental pillars of the scientific discovery process. This has necessitated the developmen ...

2020

Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Ilja van Meerveld

Headwater catchments are the fundamental units that connect the land to the ocean. Hydrological flow and biogeochemical processes are intricately coupled, yet their respective sciences have progressed without much integration. Reaction kinetic theories tha ...

WILEY2020

Early-Career Coordinated Distributed Experiments: Empowerment Through Collaboration

Luis Gómez Gener

Coordinated distributed experiments (CDEs) enable the study of large-scale ecological patterns in geographically dispersed areas, while simultaneously providing broad academic and personal benefits for the participants. However, the effective involvement o ...

2020