A MARVEL PhD student at the EPFL Finals of "My Thesis in 180 Seconds"

Mar 19, 2026, from 17:45 until 19:45, Forum Rolex, EPFL

Join us to the cheer on Claire Paetsch, MARVEL PhD student in the group of Anirudh Raju Natarajan, selected to participate in the EPFL finals of "My Thesis in 180 Seconds," an international contest asking competitors to present their research, in plain language, to a non-specialist audience and a jury made up of researchers, journalists and business people in just three minutes.   

Claire Paetsch is a PhD student in the group of Anirudh Raju Natarajan at EPFL, and her presentation is entitled "Modeling Hydrogen-Metal interactions from first-principles". Congratulations to Claire for the invitation to participate in the tenth edition of the EPFL finals on 19 March 2026 at the Forum Rolex. The whole program and the link for registration can be found here. Come and support her and the other finalists.  

Claire Paetsch
Claire Paetsch
PhD student, Pillar 1
EPFL, Lausanne

Congratulations also to Gian Gentinetta, PhD student in the group of Giuseppe Carleo (presentation entitled "Classical-Quantum Synergies for Simulations of Quantum Systems"), and Tushar Thakur, PhD student in the group of Nicola Marzari (presentation entitled "Discovering new materials for solid-state Li-ion batteries"), for participating in the selections for the final. 

Gian Gentinetta
Gian Gentinetta
PhD student, QS
EPFL, Lausanne
Tushar Thakur
Tushar Thakur
PhD student, Pillar 4
EPFL, Lausanne
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