Together, for a strong Switzerland.

Switzerland’s strength—and its ability to adapt and shape its future—rest on a strong foundation of research and innovation. Whether improving medical treatments, advancing energy storage or deepening our understanding of the universe, PSI scientists from around the world are generating new knowledge and turning it into real applications. Meet some of them.

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Anne Bonnin

Anne Bonnin studies how sound travels through the ear with unprecedented detail. She investigates how the tiny bones of the human middle ear vibrate, using advanced imaging techniques. Her work opens new ways to understand hearing loss, helping surgeons improve implants and refine treatments to restore hearing more effectively.

Anne Bonnin
Banerjee

Sarbajit Banerjee 

Sarbajit Banerjee advances materials that power our future. He designs next-generation battery materials and studies how energy can be stored more efficiently and sustainably. His work is essential to improving energy storage and security, which is key to a reliable energy transition.

Angela Papa

Angela Papa explores how our universe works at its most fundamental level. Within the MEG experiment, she studies the decay of elementary particles with exceptional precision. Her work provides crucial tests for the theoretical models that describe nature and consolidates Switzerland’s leadership in fundamental physics.

Angela Papa
Lubna Dada

Lubna Dada 

Lubna Dada improves how we understand and predict climate. Her work shows how emissions from both natural sources and human activity shape aerosol particles in the atmosphere, influencing cloud formation. These insights help make climate models more accurate and support informed decisions.

Wenchao Xu 

Wenchao Xu develops new architectures for quantum computing. Her work uses individual atoms as building blocks to create scalable quantum systems and improve the correction of quantum errors, a key step towards reliable quantum computers.

Wenchao Xu
Guizar und Liebi

Manuel Guizar-Sicairos and Marianne Liebi

Manuel Guizar-Sicairos and Marianne Liebi reveal the hidden architecture of materials and tissues. Together, they developed a new X-ray imaging method to analyse structures across scales. Their work on how bones gain their strength enables advances in biomedical research.

G. V. Shivashankar 

G. V. Shivashankar uncovers how our cells age. His work shows how structural changes in DNA affect how cells respond over time. The insights into age-related diseases, including neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, open new pathways towards healthy ageing.

Shivashankar

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