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Congratulations to Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone who obtained an ERC Synergy grant - Q-MAC jointly with Prof. Antoine Georges (Collège de France and UNIGE), Andrea Cavalleri (MPI Hambourg and Oxford) and Dieter Jaksch (Oxford).

For his seminal work on graphene and for his important contributions to the optical investigations of novel superconductors Dr. Alexey Kuzmenko was awarded the Ludwig-Genzel Prize during the International Conference on Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids (LEES) in Napa, California.

For his exceptional contributions in the field of superconductivity, Prof. Øystein Fischer received the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize 2012 during the conference 'Materials & Mecanisms of Superconductivity' held in Washington D. C. this summer. He has been distinguished « for leadership in magnetic...

Congratulations to Prof. René Flükiger who has been awarded the 2011 ICMC Lifetime Achievement Award, in Spokane, Washington.

Congratulations to Ana Akrap who was awarded the scholarship « Boursières d'Excellence UNIGE ». This program is intended for female senior lecturers for the quality of their project, their exciting and creative approach to their disciplines they have demonstrated their wealth and scientific...

Stefano Gariglio, Nicolas Reyren and Andrea Caviglia have recently received the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) OC Oerlikon award (one of the SPS prize) for the exceptional quality of their work on the superconducting interfaces.

The “Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical” has recently announced Vivien Lecomte, Julien Tailleur and Jorge Kurchan, as winners of the 2009 Best Paper Prize.

MaNEP's director, Professor Oystein Fischer, UNIGE, has been chosen by the Swedish Research Council to receive the 2009 Tage Erlander Guest Professorship which was created in 1981 by the Swedish Parliament to honour the prime minister Tage Erlander on his 80th birthday.The Professorship gives...

The ceremony took place on June 23, during which she received a (also very prestigious) watch.

Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone, renowned ferrolectrics specialist, has been appointed « Fellow of the American Physical Society ».

At the 2006 SPS meeting, Patrycja Paruch and Christian Rüegg both received a prize for works achieved while they studied within MaNEP.

During the Dies Academicus of the University of Neuchatel that took place on Saturday November 5, 2005 - in the presence of Charles Kleiber, the State Secretary for Education and Research - Prof. Oystein Fischer received a Honoris Causa Doctorate.

On September 19th, Prof. René Flükiger received an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Award for 'significant and sustained contributions to applied superconductivity'.

MaNEP's director, professor at UNIGE, received this Norvegian prize (created in 2001 and awarded every second year) for his groundbreaking works in superconductivity.