Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Materials Day – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Childcare – Materials Day 2021

For all members of the department who would like to participate to the Materials Day on November 11 but would have to register their children additionally in the childcare, we offer to cover up to 100% of the additional costs. For further information, please contact Claudia Sigel.

Program

  Note:
The symposium will be streamed and recorded
Time Talks Title
08:00 – 13:30 Registration morning and afternoon session.

Please note: Participation is free of charge but registration is required.

All events organised by ETH Zurich are subject to a mandatory certificate requirement.

Morning session    
09:00 Opening – Prof. Dr. Pietro Gambardella
 
09:05 Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin
Materials Theory
On Happiness?
09:30 Prof. Dr. Lucio Isa
Soft Materials and Interfaces
Harnessing softness in micro-structured materials
09:55 Prof. Dr. Ralph Spolenak
Nanometallurgy
Short Stories from the Small and how they Apply to the Big World
10:20 Coffee Break  
11:00 Prof. Dr. Jan Vermant
Soft Materials
Materials science in sneezing, coughing and generating aerosols
11:25 Prof. Dr. Manfred Fiebig
Multifunctional Ferroic Materials
Seeing is believing: materials and optics
11:50 Prof. Dr. Sheng Xu
Young Investigator Lecture
Materials Design and Advanced Microfabrication for Soft Electronics
12:20 Award Ceremony
Presented by Prof. Dr. Pietro Gambardella, Head of Department
12:30 Lunch Break
Special guests
Afternoon session    
13:30 Prof. Dr. Markus Niederberger
Multifunctional Materials
Invisible materials and devices for energy storage and conversion
13:55 Prof. Dr. Jörg Löffler
Metal Physics and Technology
New metallic materials: From the atom to a viable product
14:20 Prof. Dr. Hans Christian Öttinger
Polymer Physics
Learning from fluctuations in rheology
14:45 Prof. Dr. Eric Dufresne
Soft and Living Materials
Living Droplets Get to Work
15:10 Coffee Break
 
15:50 Prof. Dr. Pietro Gambardella
Magnetism and Interface Physics
Probing magnetism atom-by-atom
16:15 Prof. Dr. André Studart
Complex Materials
Bio-inspired 3D Printing
16:40 Prof. Dr. Athina Anastasaki
Polymeric Materials
Making and unmaking polymers by controlled radical polymerization
17:05 Closing Remarks – Prof. Pietro Gambardella