We are happy to announce the following Keynote Speakers have been confirmed for SNC 2025:

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
President, EPFL
Professor, Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials
Switzerland

 Jos Benschop
Executive Vice President Technology
ASML
The Netherlands

Detailed Program

Please note that the program is under development and subject to frequent modifications. We are adding speakers’ details almost daily.
Last update: March 20, 2025

Wednesday 11 June 2025 Exhibition Setup
Thursday 12 June 2025
08:15Registration Opens
09:00 - 09:20Opening and Welcome

SNC 2025 co-Chairs:

Hatice Altug, EPFL

Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Swiss MNT Board
09:20 - 10:00Keynote 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 - 11:00NanoBio
Chair: Simone SchĂĽrle-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 nanophotonics

Jose L Garcia-Cordero, PhD, Institute of Human Biology, Roche, Basel, Switzerland

Advanced Microfluidic Platforms for Scalable Organoid Culture

Prof. Adrian M. Ionescu, Nanolab, EPFL, Switzerland

Nanotechnology-driven Real-Time Biosensing: Enabling Digital Twins for Proactive Healthcare at the Edge
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
11:30 - 12:30Nano 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 applications

Prof. 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 implantology

Dr. 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 - 14:00Lunch, Poster & Exhibition Visit
14:00 - 15:00GĂĽntherodt 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-EM

Yifeng Shao, Technical University at Delft, The Netherlands

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Alessandro Colombo, Laboratory for Solid State Physics, Physics department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

The ultrafast dance of superheated plasmonic nanoparticles
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
15:30 - 16:30Nano in Swiss Industry
Chair: Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau

Dr. Bernhard Stalder, Principal Scientist / Senior Project Manager
Business Area Grinding & Dispersing BĂĽhler AG, Switzerland

Potentiation of Effectiveness – industrial applications of nano-scale wet grinding

Lukas 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 Glass

Dr. Julian Schneider, Founder & CPO, Scrona AG, Switzerland

Transforming micro-manufacturing: Precision, Performance, and Potential
16:30 - 17:15Startup Competition
Chairs: Lorenz Herrmann, Empa & Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau

Qualifying companies will be listed here once they are finalised by the selection committee.
17:15 - 19:00Poster Session with Aperitif

Aperitif will be served from 18:00.


  • Dedicated poster session
  • Networking Aperitif
  • Vote for Best Poster Prizes
19:00Adjourn for the Day
 
Friday 13 June 2025
08:30Registration Opens
08:30 - 09:10Keynote Talk
Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI
KEYNOTE
Dr. Jos Benschop, Executive Vice President Technology, ASML, The Netherlands

Extreme UltraViolet Lithography; past, present and future
09:10 - 10:10Nanomanufacturing
Chair: Juergen Brugger, EPFL
Dr. Marta Fernandez-Regulez, NanoNEMS research group. Instituto de MicroelectrĂłnica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain

Block Copolymers: A Scalable Path to Advanced Semiconductor Devices

Dr. Armin Knoll, IBM Research – Europe, Zurich, Switzerland

Automated Nanofabrication using Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Michele 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 - 10:40Coffee & Exhibition Visit
10:40 - 11:40Functional 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 Colloids

Prof Dr Ir Maartje M.C. Bastings, Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory, Institute of Materials & Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland

Super-Selective Biomaterials in Action

Prof. Tiffany Abitbol, Institute of Materials (IMX), Sustainable Materials Laboratory (SML), EPFL, Switzerland

Cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly in suspension and in films
11:40 - 12:40Photonics
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 Network

Dr. Darius Urbonas, IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Switzerland

All-optical polariton transistors

Dr. Harun Solak, CEO, Eulitha AG, Switzerland

Low Cost Optical Lithography for High-Resolution Periodic Patterning
12:40 - 14:10Lunch, Poster & Exhibition Visit
14:10 - 15:10Nano 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 locking

Dr. Artem Denisov, Ensslin Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Spin-Valley Protected Kramers Pair in Bilayer Graphene

Dr. 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 - 15:40Coffee & Exhibition Visit
15:40 - 16:30Student Talks (PhD Awards)
Chair: Michel Despont, CSEM

PhD Award Winners short talks.
Speakers to be named later.
16:30 - 17:00Awards Ceremony
Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Hatice Altug, EPFL

  1. Image Contest Award

  2. Best Poster Awards

  3. Swiss Nanotechnology Start-Up Prize

  4. Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Awards 2024
17:00 - 17:15Closing Remarks

Conference wrap-up and announcements
17:15 - 18:00Light Farewell Apero