Assemblée CIME 3 Avril 2006

~ 20% of PhDs completed in 2004 and 2003 were “Materials” Related Materials research at EPFL Materials Research at EPFL 2003, includes work from more than 20 laboratories ~ 20% of PhDs completed in 2004 and 2003 were “Materials” Related Outstanding bibliometric performance.. 50% of financial resources from external funding

Competence Center for Materials Science : EPFL vision and proposal to the ETH Board EPFL named leading house JUNE National vocation Multidsiciplinary exchange platform with industry Participation of industry to governance and strategy Create the School of Materials science at EPFL (FMX) Reposition EMPA : mission complementary to EPFs Connect CSEM to ETH Domain (EPFL in governance) The Center Preliminary reengineering (3-fold)

The Center Scope Materials and micro- nanotechnologies From basic to applied research (including systems, devices) Structure ETH Domain, CSEM & industry Engineering & Research Units Machinery and transportation, Building & construction, Biomedical, Micro- & nanotechnologies, … ) ( e.g.

Planification 2008-2011 Annonce de la création d’une Faculté des Matériaux consultation interne Retour de la direction

Leading House of Centre for Materials Science School of Materials Science : Faculté MX Leading House of Centre for Materials Science Anchors Center and ERUs in basic research Regroups and reinforces Materials Science at EPFL

A truly interdisciplinary faculty Common basis in Materials characterisation and processing at all length scales from nano to macro Need to extend beyond the conventional areas of materials science and technology – bridge to basic sciences, life science and engineering Joint appointments of staff from other faculties, participating in research, doctoral school and masters courses ;

Areas to be strengthened through new faculty hires and collaborations an evolution of the CIME from a mission primarily of service to a mixture of research and service with a strong academic component, accompanied by an expansion of its scope to biology a partial re-orientation of the fundamental and applied research in thin films, surfaces and interfaces towards areas such as functional interfaces and novel surface characterization techniques. the enhancement of the activities in materials synthesis, soft matter and biomaterials. the reinforcement of modelling activities done in materials particularly at the atomistic scale (MD, ab initio) the physics of nanodevices, particularly electronic, optical and biochemical devices based on novel nanostructured materials and systems

Search for new director Post advertised, ~30 applications Short list of ~ 5 drawn up Visits / Seminars to be arranged at beginning of May

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