We are happy to announce the following Keynote Speakers have been confirmed for SNC 2025:
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Anna Fontcuberta i Morral |
Jos Benschop Executive Vice President Technology ASML The Netherlands |
Final Program
Last update: June 4, 2025
| Wednesday 11 June 2025 | Exhibition Setup from 15:00 - 18:00 |
| Thursday 12 June 2025 | |
| 08:15 | Registration Desk Opens |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Opening and Welcome Martina Bircher, Executive Council and Head of the Department of Education, Culture and Sport (BKS), Canton of Aargau [welcome in German] Hatice Altug, EPFL (SNC 2025 co-Chair) Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Swiss MNT Board (SNC 2025 co-Chair) |
| 09:20 - 10:00 | Keynote Talk Chair: Hatice Altug, EPFL KEYNOTE Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, School of Engineering, EPFL. Institute of Physics, School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland  Nanotechnology for new materials and technologies in the green energy and quantum age |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | NanoBio Chair: Simone Schürle-Finke, ETHZ Prof. Dr. Guillermo Acuna, Département de Physique - Photonic Nanosystems. Université de Fribourg - Faculté des Sciences et de Médecine; University of Fribourg, Switzerland DNA nanotechnology for nanophotonicsJose L Garcia-Cordero, PhD, Institute of Human Biology, Roche, Basel, Switzerland Advanced Microfluidic Platforms for Scalable Organoid CultureProf. Adrian M. Ionescu, Nanolab, EPFL, Switzerland Nanotechnology-driven Real-Time Biosensing: Enabling Digital Twins for Proactive Healthcare at the Edge |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Nano in Medtech Chair: Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, AMI Uni-FR Dr. Christopher Rader, Empa, Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, St. Gallen, Switzerland Mobile to pilot scale nanofiber production for biomedical applicationsProf. Anne GĂ©raldine Guex, PhD, University Center for Dental Medicine Basel UZB and Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland Analysing the nano-scale to understand the micro-scale: Cell-material interactions in oral implantologyDr. Florent Boudoire, CSEM SA, Micro & Nano Systems Business Unit, Additive Manufacturing and Component Reliability Group, Switzerland Lithography-Based Additive Manufacturing: Micrometric Precision in 3D Printed Biocompatible Polymers and Metals |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch, Poster & Exhibition Visit |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Güntherodt Lectures on Imaging at Nanoscale Chairs: Manuel Guizar, PSI and EPFL & Philipp Pelz, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitätErlangen-Nürnberg Dr. Ulrich Lorenz, Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EMYifeng Shao, AIM Solutions B.V. & Imaging Physics Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands EUV ptychography for semiconductor metrology and inspectionDr. Alessandro Colombo, Laboratory for Solid State Physics, Physics department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland The ultrafast dance of superheated plasmonic nanoparticles |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Nano in Swiss Industry Chair: Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau Dr. Bernhard Stalder, Principal Scientist / Senior Project Manager Business Area Grinding & Dispersing Bühler AG, Switzerland Potentiation of Effectiveness – industrial applications of nano-scale wet grindingLukas Greuter, Business Development Manager Life Sciences and Diagnostics, IMT Masken und Teilungen AG, Switzerland Where Photonics Meet Microfluidics – Consumables For Life Sciences and Diagnostics Applications in GlassDr. Julian Schneider, Founder & CPO, Scrona AG, Switzerland Transforming micro-manufacturing: Precision, Performance, and Potential |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Startup Competition Chairs: Lorenz Herrmann, Empa & Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau Participating companies will each give a 6 minute pitch. Session and prize sponsored by the Swiss MNT Network  |
| 17:15 - 19:00 | Poster Session with Aperitif Chairs: Alexandra Kämpfer Homsy, HES-SO / He-Arc, Neuchâtel & Silvia Schintke, HEIG-VD, HES-SO Aperitif will be served from 18:00.
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| 19:00 | Adjourn for the Day |
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| Friday 13 June 2025 | |
| 08:00 | Registration Desk Opens |
| 08:30 - 09:10 | Keynote Talk Chair: Yasin Ekinci, PSI KEYNOTE Dr. Jos Benschop, Executive Vice President Technology, ASML, The Netherlands Extreme UltraViolet Lithography; past, present and future |
| 09:10 - 10:10 | Nanomanufacturing Chair: Juergen Brugger, EPFL Dr. Marta Fernandez-Regulez, NanoNEMS research group. Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain Block Copolymers: A Scalable Path to Advanced Semiconductor DevicesDr. Armin Knoll, IBM Research – Europe, Zurich, Switzerland Automated Nanofabrication using Thermal Scanning Probe LithographyMichele Perego, National Research Council (CNR) – Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM), Agrate Brianza branch (National Research Council), Italy Phosphorus Doping of Silicon at the Nanoscale |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:40 - 11:40 | Functional Nanomaterials Chair: Esther Amstad, EPFL Dr. Ahmet Faik Demirörs, University of Fribourg, Physics Department, Switzerland 3D Printing Methods for Isotropic Structural Colored Objects with Self-assembly of ColloidsProf Dr Ir Maartje M.C. Bastings, Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory, Institute of Materials & Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland Super-Selective Biomaterials in ActionProf. Tiffany Abitbol, Institute of Materials (IMX), Sustainable Materials Laboratory (SML), EPFL, Switzerland Cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly in suspension and in films |
| 11:40 - 12:40 | Photonics Chair: Kirsten Moselund, PSI & EPFL Dr Jack C. Gartside, Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology. Imperial College London, United Kingdom Retinomorphic Machine Vision in a Nonlinear Photonic Lasing NetworkDr. Darius Urbonas, IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Switzerland All-optical polariton transistorsDr. Harun Solak, CEO, Eulitha AG, Switzerland Low Cost Optical Lithography for High-Resolution Periodic Patterning |
| 12:40 - 14:10 | Lunch, Poster & Exhibition Visit |
| 14:10 - 15:10 | Nano and Quantum Chair: Martino Poggio, SNI Basel Prof. Andrea Caviglia, Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland The quantum metric of electrons with spin-momentum lockingDr. Artem Denisov, Ensslin Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Spin-Valley Protected Kramers Pair in Bilayer GrapheneDr. Bruno Schuler, nanotech@surfaces Lab, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland Probing Atomic Defects in 2D Semiconductors with Lightwave-Driven STM |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 15:40 - 16:30 | Student Talks (PhD Awards) Chair: Michel Despont, CSEM The following winners of the 2025 PhD Awards will each give a short presentation of their work.
Following the talks, there will a short award presentation for each recipient on behalf of the sponsoring company. |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Awards Ceremony Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Hatice Altug, EPFL
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| 17:00 - 17:15 | Closing Remarks Conference wrap-up and announcements |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Light Farewell Apero |