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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

Pollentracker

Duration: 12 months, Start: January 2013

Academic project leader: Jean-Pierre Wolf, Institution: GAP Biophotonics, University of Geneva. Industrial project partner: Plair - Denis Kiselev

A very innovative approach for real-time pollen detection and identification was developed at the University Geneva, which is currently being patented. The method combines, for the first time, the advantages of selectivity provided by spectrally resolved information and limited equipment costs.
The goal of the project is to develop a finalized prototype capable of discriminating among the 15 most allergic pollen types encountered in Europe as well as discriminating pollens from spores. This device will constitute the first product of a spin-off of the University of Geneva, which will be created within the first year of the project. The involvement of an academic environment, a spin-off company (named PLAIR) led by the developer of the product and an end-user (MeteoSwiss) representing the market and a potential customer provides to this project a particularly high success probability.

In November 2014, Plair's project "Mobile monitoring of air pollutants" received a recognition prize from Zurich Insurance during Zurich Climate Competition (not listed on the website). The company was officially registered in July 2014 by D. Kiselev and S. Afonina, both former graduate students from Wolf’s group.

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