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Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers

Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended - on June 30, 2022

MUST2022 Conference- a great success!

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson

FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”

Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science

New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences

New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler

EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL

Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” - online, October 5, 12 and 19

Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference- Do photons show gender bias?

NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

SMALA - SMart Agriculture using LAsers

Duration: 24 months, Start: January 2020

Academic project leader: Jean-Pierre Wolf, Institution: GAP Biophotonics, University of Geneva. Industrial project partner: AGROLASE (website in preparation).

The use of pesticides in agriculture has become a major environmental concern. Drastic reduction of pesticides can be obtained by novel technologies (“smart agriculture”) which involve photonics. We developed a method based on artificial intelligence and digital holography that allows identifying and quantifying pathogens in fields with very high temporal and spatial resolution. A network of connected stand-alone laser devices provides a real time risk assessment to the producer on his field at sub-parcellar resolution. A close collaboration with the Federal Department of Agriculture is currently carried out to improve models and forecast of infection, for drastic pesticide reduction in vineyards. The technology was awarded in 2020 the Agrovina’s Innovation Award (R&D).

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