SAMCE Award Winners
for outstanding oral presentations during SAMCE events

SAMCE 2025

In an interview with the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), the winners of the talk awards SAMCE 2025 give insights about their research projects. You can read the full interview here.

SAMCE Best IGNITE Talk Award

Yong Ding (Empa / ETH Zurich)
"Valorization of demolition waste and biomass byproduct into sustainable building materials"

sponsored by BFH

SAMCE Best CONNECT Talk Award

Ali Jafarabadi (Empa / ETH Zurich)
"Self-Locking Coupling Technologies Using Iron-Based Shape Memory Alloys"

sponsored by BFH

SAMCE Industry Award

Romain Trihan (Empa)
"Coupling laser ablation & ceramic molding for microcomponents fabrication"

sponsored by Hitachi Energy

SAMCE 2024

In an interview with the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), the winners of the talk awards SAMCE 2024 give insights about their research projects. You can read the full interview here.

SAMCE Best IGNITE Talk Award

Buse Unlu (EPFL)
"Accelerating two-photon polymerization via single-photon absorption assistance"

sponsored by SUPSI

SAMCE Best CONNECT Talk Award

Samuele Dell’Oca (SUPSI)
"Harmonizing Human-Robot Collaboration"

sponsored by ZHAW

SAMCE Industry Award

Malte Sebastian Beccard (Empa)
"Spiropyran-functionalized Polysiloxanes: Reprocessable Elastomers with Tunable Properties via ZnCl₂"

sponsored by Sensirion & IMT AG

SAMCE 2023

SAMCE Best IGNITE Talk Award

Manuel Marbach (FHNW)
"Flexible beam shaping for Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) and Laser Hardening (LH)"

sponsored by CSEM

SAMCE Best CONNECT Talk Award

Anneke Orlandini (SUPSI)
"Surface Functionalization of Ti6Al4V for orthopedic implants"

sponsored by CSEM

SAMCE 2022

SAMCE Best IGNITE Talk Award

Natanael Lanz (ETH Zurich)
"Industrial fabrication of CNT transistors"

sponsored by SUPSI

SAMCE Best CONNECT Talk Award

Caroline Pereira Martendal (ETH Zurich)
"Powder cross-contamination in multi-material Laser Powder Bed Fusion"

sponsored by SUPSI

SAMCE Industry Award

Vaclav Pejchal (CSEM)
"4D printing of next generation mechanisms for space applications"

sponsored by Precipart

SAMCE 2021

SAMCE Best IGNITE Talk Award

Giulio Masinelli (Empa)
"Artificial Intelligence meets the Manufacturing Industry"