Research Internship – Biomedical Engineer

The Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory at Empa Dübendorf is looking for a skilled scientist/engineer with background in biomedical engineering or a related field to work on an industry collaboration project for 6-12 months. The candidate will work on the development of a novel point-of- care in-vitro diagnostics platform in close collaboration with the startup company MOMM Diagnostics GmbH.

International Physicists’ Tournament at EPFL

Dear Students
On 22-26 April 2019, EPFL will have the honour to host the 11th International Physicists› Tournament (IPT 2019) – the biggest international competition in physics for teams of university students. This event will bring together almost 200 undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professors and will be a real feast of fascinating experiments, brave theories and spectacular physics fights! If you are a PhD student or professor, you can become a jury member (send an e-mail to evgenii.glushkov -at- epfl.ch) and judge one or several physics fights. Or you can just come and watch the fights, including the Grand Final!For all updates on the IPT2019, please check the official websiteFacebook and Twitter

PhD offer: De novo peptides for the development of artificial metalloenzymes

Project description. This project proposes a new approach that could overcome some of these current limitations: to develop a methodology for the construction of multi-sites ArMs based on the controlled assembly of small de novo peptidic bricks (“molecular Lego”, see scheme). The bricks are accessible by peptide synthesis, rendering their functionalization at a single site straightforward. Upon assembly of several units, a more complex structure (protein-like) will be obtained, placing the different functional centers at a desired distance to work in concert. One could then rationally design complex ArMs simply by assembling those bricks. To our knowledge, no such system exists yet. […]

Master Thesis in Atmospheric Chemistry on the Oxidation of gaseous elemental Mercury in the Atmosphere

We offer an interesting master thesis in Atmospheric Chemistry, investigating the oxidation of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) using laboratory experiments. Mercury is a top-priority pollutant, and each year anthropogenic activities emit 2000 tons of GEM into the atmosphere. The oxidation of GEM to reactive mercury drives the deposition to the Earth’s surface. However, the exact mechanism of GEM oxidation remains largely unknown. […]