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Najma Sultana Shaik Elected MaP Student Representative for 2026/27
The MaP Doctoral School has a new student voice. At the MaP Graduate Symposium last week, the MaP community elected Najma Sultana Shaik (D-BAUG) as Student Representative for the 2026/27 term, succeeding outgoing representative Dimitrios Sapalidis (D-PHYS).
Dr. Julie Laurent (D-MATL) wins the MaP Award 2026
Dr. Julie Laurent has been awarded the MaP Award 2026, recognising the most outstanding doctoral thesis in Materials and Processes at ETH Zurich. The award was presented during the MaP Graduate Symposium following a final in which four doctoral researchers presented their work to an expert jury.
Materials Meet Processes: Highlights from the MaP Graduate Symposium 2026
Last Thursday, ETH Zürich's Materials and Processes community came together at HG Audi Max for a day of cutting-edge science, lively poster sessions and plenty of networking. From battery anodes to biohybrid microswimmers, the breadth of research on show made one thing clear: materials and processes touch nearly every corner of engineering and science.
ETH/EPFL Summer School 2026: Optical Probing of Nanomaterials in- and out-of-Equilibrium (OPNEq)
Dimitrios Sapalidis, student representative of the Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP), and his team organised the OPNEq 2026 Summer School at ETH Hönggerberg from 2 to 5 June. Thirty-four students from ETH Zurich, EPFL, and other Swiss and European universities attended lectures and hands-on tutorials on optical spectroscopy and ultrafast probes of nanoscale dynamics.
“A dinner conversation changed my research -- that is the MaP network at work.”
Cultivating your network outside the lab is important. Just ask Katharina Trapp. She helped organise the Raman Workshop 2023 - a decision with consequences.
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