PSI-Impuls Award Further information: Prize awarded to Thomas Mortelmans The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the PSI-Impuls Association have PSI-Impuls Award https://www.psi.ch/de/psi-im- presented former SNI doctoral student Dr. Thomas Mortelmans puls/psi-impuls-preis with the PSI-Impuls Award. Mortelmans received the prize, which is Article on Thomas presented every two years for the best application-oriented doctoral Mortelmans’ PhD dissertation dissertation at the PSI, for his dissertation on the “Development of a https://nanoscience. unibas.ch/en/news/details/ neues-prinzip-fuer-antikoerper- tests-thomas-mortelmans-be- nano昀氀uidic particle size sorter and its biomedical applications.” kommt-den-von-sensirion-ge- sponsorten-swiss-nanotechnol- ogy-phd-award/ In his doctoral dissertation, which was fund- Video on the ed as an SNI PhD School project, Mortelmans scientific approach developed a new functional principle for a https://youtu.be/7VKskNZCoMc rapid COVID-19 test that can also be used to Video with Thomas detect other viruses such as in昀氀uenza A or to about the SNI PhD determine the status of the disease. School https://youtu.be/9dqX_vimmcY Mortelmans carried out his work at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Dr. Yasin Ekinci’s group. In 2022, he previously received the Swiss Nan- otechnology PhD Award, which was launched by the Swiss MNT Network and sponsored by Sensirion, for a publication describing the functional principle of the micro昀氀uidic test in the journal ACS Applied Nanomaterials. Mortelmans now works as a device scientist at Johnson & Johnson in Scha昀昀hausen. “Our warmest congratulations on this well-earned award!” Thomas Mortelmans received the PSI-Impuls Award. (Image: PSI) SNI PhD School https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/ SNI PhD School en/forschung/phd-programm/ Applications still open Young researchers still have until December 31, 2023, to apply for the projects announced at the SNI PhD School. Further information: https://nanoscience.unibas.ch/en/forschung/phd-programm/ 8 SNI INSight December 2023