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The Swiss Micro- and Nanotechnology Network is offering five prizes each of 2’000 CHF for excellent scientific first-author publications in the field of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience published by PhD students in 2024/2025 sponsored by the following sponsors:
The prizes will be awarded at the Swiss Nanoconvention SNC2025.
Requirements:
The work should have been conducted at a Swiss university or research institute and written up in an English manuscript. This manuscript must have been appeared (at least) online in a peer-reviewed journal in 2024 through March 2025.
The application must include:
- A nomination letter by the PhD advisor (not longer than one page)
- A curriculum vitae of the PhD student including a list of activities & publications (not longer than 2 pages)
- A short summary stating the importance of the work (max ½ page)
- A pdf copy of the manuscript of the published work
Submission:
All pdf-files of 1) through 4) must be merged into a single pdf that takes the name of the PhD student. This single pdf document must be submitted by email at the latest by 7.4.2025 (April 7, 2025) to the following address:
Michel Despont
Vice President
CSEM S.A.
R. Jaquet-Droz 1
2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
E-Mail: michel.despont@csem.ch
Prize Committee:
Prof. Christian Schönenberger (Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel)
Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser (Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg)
Prof. Tobias Lamprecht (OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule)
Dr. Pierangelo Gröning (formerly at Empa Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf)
Dr. Andreas Hafner (BASF Schweiz AG, Dübendorf)
Dr. Michel Despont (CSEM S.A.)
Communication of the prize:
The prizes will be awarded at the Swiss NanoConvention SNC 2025.
The prize winners will be published on the website of the Swiss Micro- and Nanotechnology Network and the award will be handed over by a representative of the sponsor companies at the Swiss NanoConvention 2025, which will take place in Brugg-Windisch from June 12 to June 13, 2025.
