12Jun2025
12.06.2025 – 13.06.2025
CAMPUSSAAL Brugg-Windisch, Bahnhofstrasse 6, 5210 Windisch
Swiss NanoConvention 2025
Programm/Ablauf
Thursday 12 June 2025
| 08:15 | Registration Opens |
| 09:00 | Opening and Welcome SNC 2025 co-Chairs: Hatice Altug, EPFL Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Swiss MNT Board |
| 09:20 | Keynote Talk Chair: Hatice Altug, EPFL 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 | 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 nanophotonics Jose L Garcia-Cordero, PhD, Institute of Human Biology, Roche, Basel, Switzerland => Advanced Microfluidic Platforms for Scalable Organoid Culture Prof. Adrian Ionescu, EPFL, Switzerland => Title to be confirmed |
| 11:10 | Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit |
| 11:30 | 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 applications Prof. Anne Géraldine 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 | Lunch, Poster Session & Exhibition Visit |
| 14:00 | 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-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 | Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit |
| 15:30 | Nano in Swiss Industry Chair: Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau Dr. Bernhard Stalder, Bühler AG => Potentiation of Effectiveness – industrial applications of nano-scale wet grinding Lukas Greuter, Business Development Manager Life Sciences and Diagnostics, IMT Masken und Teilungen AG => Where Photonics Meet Microfluidics – Consumables For Life Sciences and Diagnostics Applications in Glass Patrick Heissler, CEO, Scrona AG => Transforming micro-manufacturing: Precision, Performance, and Potential |
| 16:30 | Startup 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 | Poster Session with Aperitif
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| 19:00 | Adjourn for the Day |
Friday 13 June 2025
| 08:30 | Registration Opens |
| 08:30 | Keynote Talk Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI Dr. Jos Benschop, Executive Vice President Technology, ASML, The Netherlands => Extreme UltraViolet Lithography; past, present and future |
| 09:10 | 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 Devices Dr. Armin Knoll, IBM Research – Europe, Zurich, Switzerland => Automated Nanofabrication using Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography Michele Perego, IMM, National Research Council, Italy => Title and more information coming shortly |
| 10:10 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:40 | 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 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 | 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 Network Dr. Darius Urbonas,IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Switzerland => All-optical polariton transistors Speaker to be confirmed |
| 12:40 | Lunch & Exhibition Visit |
| 14:100 | 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 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 |
| 15:15 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 15:40 | Student Talks (PhD Awards) Chair: Michel Despont, CSEM PhD Award Winners short talks. Speakers to be named later. |
| 16:30 | Awards Ceremony Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Hatice Altug, EPFL
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| 17:00 | Closing Remarks Conference wrap-up and announcement of SNC 2026 |
| 17:15 | Light Farewell Apero |
Ort
CAMPUSSAAL Brugg-Windisch
Bahnhofstrasse 6, 5210 Windisch, Schweiz
Karte Veranstaltungsort
CAMPUSSAAL Brugg-Windisch
Bahnhofstrasse 6
5210
Windisch
Schweiz