The grant will allow Degen and his group in the Department of Physics to develop a photonic integrated circuit for single-photon-emitter excitation and detection, with future commercial use in optical quantum sensing and communication.
Paolo Arosio, professor at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop a technology for the rapid, specific, and scalable isolation of vesicles and molecules from biofluids with applications in diagnostics and disease monitoring as well as drug manufacturing.
There have been repeated small earthquakes under and around the Mont Blanc Massif for around ten years now. A new study demonstrates for the first time a link between climate-driven changes in glaciated high mountain regions and increased local earthquake hazard.