ICN2 LeaderSHE Talks - TALKS BY WOMEN WHO LEAD THE WAY IN DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL FIELDS

Organised by ICN2 Equal Opportunities Committee 

By Anna Fontcuberta, PhD in Materials Science. Catalan physicist, president of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).  

Bio: Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is a Spanish and Swiss physicist and materials scientist. Her research focuses on nanotechnology applied to the production of solar cells. She is a full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the head of the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials. Her research activities are centered on the materials science and engineering of semiconductor nanostructures, specifically nanowires. Nanowires are filamentary crystals with a very high ratio of length to diameter, the latter being in the nanometer range. Semiconductor nanowires are of significant interest from a fundamental point of view as they exhibit new physical and chemical properties due to their large surface-to-volume ratio, low dimensionality, and one-dimensional confinement. From a technological perspective, they represent attractive building blocks for the assembly of novel nano-electronic and nano-photonic systems, as well as biochemical sensors. She has recently been elected as the new President of EPFL, starting January 1, 2025, and will become the first woman to hold this position.  

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This action is part of the institutional ICN2 2023-2026 Equality and Diversity Plan (Action 18).