A research team led by Professor Johan Gaume and postdoctoral researcher Lars Blatny has developed a model that realistically captures how snow, sand and other granular materials behave. The accompanying open-source software “Matter” enables realistic simulations – from avalanches to industrial processes.
Lukas Ballo receives the Carl Pirath Prize 2025 from the Deutsche
Verkehrswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e. V. (DVWG) for his dissertation
about the E-Bike City project.
Where antibodies reach their limits in medicine, aptamers step in. For her pioneering work in developing aptamer-modified biosensors, Nako Nakatsuka, assistant professor at EPFL, has been honored with the 2025 Ruzicka Prize.