Awards

Prof. Dr. Morgan Trassin has been honored with the prestigious Dandelion Award. This award provides a unique opportunity for students, Ph.D. candidates, and Post-Doctoral researchers to nominate and vote for professors who have demonstrated exceptional commitment and leadership in fostering entrepreneurship. A diverse jury of representatives from key student bodies, such as the Student Project House (SPH), ETH Juniors, Academic Association of Scientific Staff at ETH Zurich (AVETH), and ETH Entrepreneur Club, then collaborate to select a deserving winner from the different departments.

Chia-Jung Yang has been awarded the external page DPG-INNOMAG Award in Magnetism which was awarded for the best PhD thesis in magnetism at the DPG March Meeting in Berlin. Each year the world's largest association in magnetism – the Division of Magnetism of the German Physical Society (DPG) awards the INNOMAG Prize for the best dissertation. This year, our group member Chia-Jung Yang has been honored for her thesis titled "Exploring ultrafast dynamics of electrons in heavy fermions by THz time-domain spectroscopy". D-MATL News

Joohee Bang has been awarded a Poster Award at the external page DGK Young Crystallographer's 10th anniversary Meeting at DESY, Hamburg. Her poster titled “Probing octahedral tilts in ferroelectric oxide superlattices with three-dimensional diffuse X-ray scattering” has been recognized as one of the best posters of the meeting in a competitive competition and received a poster prize sponsored by STOE & Cie GmbH. Congratulations, Joohee!

Ipek Efe won two awards at the external page IEEE International Symposium for Application of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) 2023 in Cleveland! At the student pitch competition, she got the first place prize for being a compelling advocate for a scientifically powerful project about her conference talk titled “Nanoscale Design of Layered Ferroelectrics Using Polarization Monitoring In-Situ” and the third place award at the multimedia competition with her entry titled as “Unit-cell height stairway to single crystalline ferroelectric thin film heaven”.

Elzbieta Gradauskaite has been awarded the ETH Medal for her outstanding thesis titled "Interfacial control of ferroic order in oxide heterostructures". She has been selected from an extremely competitive pool of nominations from all research groups at D-MATL. Congratulations, Elsa! With this award, the Ferroic Group has been awarded four ETH Medals in the last six years, with one of the highest success rates of the department.

Ipek Efe was selected among a competitive pool of applicants and will receive a financial award given by external page IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society at the upcoming external page IEEE International Symposium for Application of Ferroelectrics (ISAF), which will be held between 23-27 July in Cleveland, Ohio. At the symposium, she will give a talk about her research on the nanoscale design of layered ferroelectrics using polarization monitoring in-situ. We wish her a great time in Cleveland!

Martin Sarott won the prize for the best presentation for his invited talk at the conference on «Electronic Materials and Applications 2023 (EMA)» in Orlando, organized by the American ceramics society! He is followed by William Huxter from D-PHYS, who was awarded the second best presentation prize. Congratulations to both of you! Both works focus on recent advances in the field of ferroelectric thin films.

Thomas Weber, the head of the X-​ray platform at D-​MATL and senior scientist associated with the Ferroic group, receives the external page Will-​Kleber Commemorative Coin from the external page German Society for Crystallography. The Will-​Kleber Commemorative Coin is awarded annually by the German Society for Crystallography for outstanding scientific contributions in selected fields of crystallography. Thomas Weber, head of the X-​ray platform at D-​MATL, receives the award for his methodological work on the study of disordered crystals using diffuse X-​ray scattering. D-MATL News

Jan Gerrit Horstmann has been awarded an ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship, enabling him to develop novel experimental methods for the investigation of correlation dynamics in multiferroics with high spatio-temporal resolution.

Feifan Wang has received the ETH Career Seed Award, granting an autonomous research project as a timely kick-off for his own future academic career. The project is about mechanistic study of scale-free ultrafast switchable ferroelectrics by using terahertz and optical pump-probe methods.

Elzbieta Gradauskaite was awarded an external page SNSF Postdoc.Mobility fellowship for the project titled "Investigation of electric and spin transport in layered in-plane ferroelectrics". Elsa will join the external page Oxitronics group at the CNRS/Thales lab in Paris as a postdoctoral researcher to explore layered ferroelectrics for emergent oxide electronics and spintronics.

Manfred Fiebig receives the external page Stern-​Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society (DPG). The external page Stern-​Gerlach Medal is DPG's highest distinction in experimental physics.

The German Physical Society awards Manfred Fiebig the medal for the development and application of nonlinear optics as a method for visualizing ferroic states, leading to fundamental advances in the understanding of ferroic states and materials.

Ipek Efe won the prize for the best overall poster at the annual International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics 2022 (ISAF 2022) sponsored by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) in Tours, France for her poster entitled: "In-situ monitoring of polarization dynamics during layered-ferroelectrics epitaxial design". external page IEE-ISAF

Manfred Fiebig became a corresponding member of the "Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz". The academy is an interregionally oriented association of personalities from the fields of science, literature and music. It is a place of dialogue that focuses on interdisciplinary exchange.

Press release (German only): external page Zuwahlen: Sechs neue Mitglieder in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur

Manfred Fiebig received the prize for pioneering nonlinear optical spectroscopy studies that led to a fundamental understanding of the emergence and coupling of electric and magnetic orders at the level of domains and domain walls. The prize has been awarded at the 2022 March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago.

external page The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the Society’s Spring 2022 prize and award recipients on October 15, 2021. The APS prizes and awards recognize outstanding achievements in research, education, and public service.

The external page Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids recognizes outstanding optical research that lead to breakthroughs in the condensed matter sciences.

We are delighted to announce that Jannis Lehmann’s dissertation “Toroidal Order in Magnetic Metamaterials” was selected for the external page Springer Thesis Award. The award is a recognition of his work and implies the publication as a book in the Springer Theses Series. We warmly congratulate Jannis for the great recognition of his achievements.

Elzbieta Gradauskaite won the best poster award at the International School of Oxide Electronics 2021 (external page ISOE 2021) that took place in Cargèse, Corsica for her poster entitled: "Defeating depolarizing fields with artificial flux closure in ultrathin ferroelectrics".

Johanna Nordlander received the ETH medal for her PhD thesis. Johanna's work advances the understanding of the evolution of improper ferroelectricity within the confinement of ultrathin films, which is essential for their successful implementation in nanoscale applications.

Ipek won the SVMT award for her Master Thesis! Read more about this years Master's degree graduation ceremony and other awards for outstanding students on the D-MATL website.

Former group members Johanna and Christian were both awared funding from Harvards Climate Change Solution Fund! For more information on Johanns proposal on "Exploring Ion Mobility in Metastable Oxide Thin Films for Energy Applications" and Christians on "Exploring Magnetic Topological Insulators for Ultra-Low-Energy Information Technologies", see external page Harvards announcement.

Felix Eltes recieved the ETH medal and MaP award for the developement of integrated devices for optical communication using ferroelectric material during his PhD thesis. He established a technology for optical switches using barium titante and demonstrated its usage for communication and for novel applications in quantum photonics.

Johanna Nordlander was awarded an SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship to join the group of Prof. Julia Mundy at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher

An external page ERC Proof of Concept grant was awarded to the FERROIC group to bring our research on in-situ monitoring of ferroelectricity during thin film deposition closer to market! Check out further information.

Elzbieta Gradauskaite won the prize for the best presentation at the conference on external page “Electronic Materials and Applications 2020” of the American ceramics society in Orlando 2020 for her talk entitled: "Robust In-Plane Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin Epitaxial Aurivillius Films".

Saül Vélez receives the ETH Zurich Career Seed grant to pursue an independent research project. In this new endeavor, he will investigate how the spin of the electrons can be used for manipulating antiferromagnetic materials.

Lukas Kürten receives the ETH Zürich Career Seed Grant, enabling him to pursue an independent research project at an early stage of his career. In his project, he will investigate the combination of multiferroics with superconductors.

Nives Strkalj was awarded the prize for the best presentation at the conference on external page “Electronic Materials and Applications 2019” of the American ceramics society in Orlando 2019 for her talk entitled: "Design of ferroelectric polarization states during epitaxial growth".

Mads Weber wins the ‘Best Oral Presentation’ award of Symposium Q at the external page European Material Research Society fall meeting 2018 for his talk about “Multiferroicity in rare-earth orthoferrites RFeO3: The particular interplay of two magnetic ions”.

Johanna Nordlander won a prize sponsored by Nature for her poster on "Emergence of Polarization in Improper Ferroelectric Thin Films" at the external page Gordon Research Conference on multiferroics 2018.

 

Shovon Pal receives the ETH Zurich Career Seed Grant 2018 for an early career stage in establishing his own record of independent research.

Sebastian Manz was awarded the ETH medal for his outstanding PhD thesis in which he investigated the “magnetoelectric domain dynamics in TbMnO3”.

Peggy Schönherr wins the ‘Best Student Presentation’ award at the International Workshop on Topological Structures of Ferroic Materials 2017 for her talk about “Topological magnetic defects in helimagnetic FeGe”.

Mads Weber receives the external page Rolf-Tarrach Prize 2017 of the 'Amis de l'Université de Luxembourg' for his thesis conducted at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Luxembourg. ©Michel Brumat / University of Luxembourg, 2017

Dennis Meier wins the renowned external page Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society (DPG) for his work on multiferroic domain walls.