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Congratulations to Margherita Melegari for her exceptional performance in the Swiss final of "My Thesis in 180 Seconds".

Congratulations to Margherita Melegari for her outstanding performance at the 2025 Université de Genève final of Ma Thèse en 180 Secondes - Suisse !Margherita Melegari, PhD candidate at the DQMP, Section de physique, UNIGE, supervised by Prof. Alberto Morpurgo, was awarded the 2nd Prize by the ...

The University of Geneva is organising the Geneva final of My Thesis in 180 Seconds competition. Eleven finalists will present their research topic to a large audience and 5 jury members in 180 seconds !

Celia LUCAS, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity with a position funded by Innosuisse, was awarded the Best Student Award at the 2025 Coated Conductor for Applications Workshop (CCA-2025). Her work, titled “Delamination of REBCO Tapes Induced by Electromagnetic Forces: An...

Prof. Fabian von Rohr has been elected as a new member of the board of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) Chemistry Platform. This appointment highlights his contributions to the field of chemistry and chemical physics.

Tejas Singar, in the group of Prof. Christoph Renner, was awarded the Würth Prize for the best PhD Thesis in physics at the University of Geneva.

Dr. Chang-Jae Roh, in the Group of Prof. Andrea Caviglia, has been awarded the "The Oxide Electronics Prize for an excellent poster" for his presentation: "Wrinkle-driven symmetry evolution in PbTiO3/SrRuO3 freestanding membranes" at the 30th international workshop on oxide electronics (iWOE-30)...

Tommaso BAGNI, a former postdoc in the Group of Applied Superconductivity has been awarded the 1st prize at the 2024 Jan Evetts Award. The winners were announced at the ASC 2024 conference.

Prof. Carmine Senatore was invited to give a plenary lecture entitled “Advancing Superconductor Technology for High-Field Applications: Current State and Emerging Trends” at the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference, ICEC29-ICMC 2024.

Dr. Giacomo Sala, in the group of Andrea Caviglia, has received a highly competitive SNSF Ambizione fellowship. Ambizione grants are aimed at early career researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution.

Giulia Venditti, in the group of Louk Rademaker obtains a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. The main aim of her project Xtra-Ordinary Vortices (XVORTEX) is to study the intertwining of topological defects and the topology of the electronic degrees of freedom in novel 2D systems.

Javier Taboada Gutierrez, in the group of Alexey Kuzmenko has received a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. In his proposal, he investigates polariton-Landau level coupling in layered structures to pioneer nano-opto-magnetic tools for precise light manipulation at the nanoscale. The ...

Congratulations to Antoine Georges who has been elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The ceremony took place on April 26th, 2024 during the 161th NAS Annual meeting in Washington DC.

Clémentine Thibault, PhD in the UNIGE’s group of Oxides Interfaces Physics received the “Best Presentation award”  for her poster : “Coupling oxygen octahedra rotation in orthorhombic perovskite heterostructures: The LaVO3/DyScO3 case” at the International Workshop on Oxide...

Francesco Lonardo, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity was one of the recipients of the Best Student Award at the 28th International Magnet Technology Conference (MT-28). The work of Francesco on the “Influence of the heat treatment on the layer-JC of internal-Sn Nb3Sn wires...

Gianmarco Bovone, Postdoc in the UNIGE's group of Applied Superconductivity is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Jan Evetts Award at the EUCAS 2023 conference. This award recognizes excellent work published in Superconductivity Science and Technology by early career researchers. Gianmarco...

Carlota Pereira Carlos, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at UNIGE with a position funded by CERN, is one of the recipients of the 2022 IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity, with her research on the development of high-performance Nb thin film...

Professor at the Faculty of Science, Carmine Senatore is the first UNIGE expert to collaborate with the World Economic Forum on a "transformation map". His mission: to raise the profile of superconducting technologies in economic and political circles.