We are pleased to invite you to the farewell lecture of Prof. Helena van Swygenhoven (PSI/EPFL).
Date: Monday 15 November 2021
Time: 16:00 – 18:30
Location: Paul Scherrer Institut, Auditorium WHGA/001, west campus (go to map)
Remarks: Attendance with valid Covid certificate and ID only
Broadcast: https://psich.zoom.us/j/66426969872
Program
| 16:00 | Welcome Prof. Frithjof Nolting (LSC/PSI) and Prof. Harm-Anton Klok (IMX/EPFL) |
| 16:10 | “Largescale Facilities for Materials Science” Prof. Helena Van Swygenhoven (PSI/EPFL) |
| 16:55 | “Structure and Mechanics of Advanced Materials” Prof. Marianne Liebi (PSI/EPFL) |
| 17:25 | Closing Prof. Christian Rüegg (PSI/EPFL/ETHZ) and Prof. Gabriel Aeppli (PSI/EPFL/ETHZ) |
| 17:35 | Apero in the tent located outside the Auditorium |
| 18:30 | End |
Biographies
Helena Van Swygenhoven-Moens is Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Institute of Materials where she has led the laboratory Neutrons and X-rays for Mechanics of Materials (NXMM). At PSI, she heads the research group Photons for Engineering and Manufacturing (PEM).
She studied physics at the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Belgium), and in 1983 she received her PhD Degree in Physics on Radiation Damage in Crystalline and Amorphous Metals from the Central Jury in Belgium. After her maternity leave, she started her professional career again with a Marie-Heim Vögtlin grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1991, and joined the Fusion Technology Division at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She moved to the Neutron Spallation Source department in 1996 and was responsible for the Prompt Gamma Activation neutron beamline PGAA. Since 2005, she has been leading the group Material Science and Simulations (MSS) in the Neutrons and Muons NUM department that moved to the Photon Science Division (PSD) in 2015 and which was named the PEM group.
She frequently advises private and public entities which are engaged in funding and evaluation of science and technology around the world. For many years, Helena Van Swygenhoven chaired the international board of ICSMA (International Committee of Strength of Materials). She served in several scientific advisory boards such as the European Spallation Source, the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) of Imperial College, the Computational Centre for Advanced Materials Modelling (ICAMS, Ruhr University Germany), the board “Information” of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the ERC starting grant review panel. She is a Fellow of the American MRS society and was elected onto the Belgian National Academy of Science. She is an ERC advanced grant holder.
Professor Marianne Liebi, currently Group Leader at Empa and Adjunct Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, will start on November 1st 2021 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Materials Science at the EPFL in the School of Engineering and at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in the Laboratory for Condensed Matter (LSC) in the Photon Science Division (PSD). Marianne Liebi’s work focus on developing methods for studying the structure of materials, including materials of biological origin such as bones, using X-rays. By appointing Marianne Liebi as the successor of Helena Van Swygenhoven-Moens, EPFL and PSI are strengthening a complex and topical field of research.
