Congratulations to professors Véronique Michaud and Mackenzie Mathis for being promoted to Full and Associate Professor respectively.

Véronique Michaud is a professor of materials at the Institute of Materials at EPFL. Her research focuses on composite materials, functional materials and structures and sustainable and energy efficient manufacturing of composites.

Mackenzie Mathis is a professor of neuroscience at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL. Her expertise lies in systems neuroscience, animal behavior and computer vision.

Congratulations to Helma Wenners for winning the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal for the development of bio-inspired catalysts and functional peptide systems. The award is conferred by the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and engineering.

Helma Wennemers is a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry. Her Wennemers research group develops organic synthetic methods to tackle questions in chemical biology and materials research.

Congratulations to Petra Dittrich for being promoted to Full Professor for Bioanalysis at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the ETHZ. Her bioanalytics group focuses on microfluidics-based technology with applications in the life sciences.

Congratulations to Gisou van der Goot for being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This election is in recognition of her contributions to cell biology and her role in advancing the understanding of how cells interact with the environment.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an honorary society that brings together and celebrates figures in various fields who have shown excellence in their respective expertise.

Congratulations to Paola Picotti for winning the Otto Nägeli Prize in Medical Research for her development of a technology capable of analysing thousands of protein structures simulaneously. Her research group has focused on methods of scanning protein shapes and developing a technology that was faster and more sensitive at detecting physiological and pathological changes.

The Otto Nägeli Prize is awarded every two years to outstanding figures in Swiss medical research.

Congratulations to Suliana Manley for winning the ERC Synergy Grant alongside two colleagues for their collaborative work on the joint project MitoContact. The project investigates how mitochondria come into contact and communicate with other cell components.

The ERC Synergy grant is bestowed upon projects that require the collaboration of multiple researchers to work on it jointly. The grant will support the team on their project for the next six years.