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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor STI IEL LANES Tenure-Track Assistant Professor STI STI-SEL SEL-ENS

Andras Kis Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures birth date: 01.11.1975 web site: http://lanes.epfl.ch office(s): BM2108 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 33925,38658 How to reach me Map with directions EDUCATION 2004-2007 Postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley in the group of Prof. Zettl 2000-2003 PhD student of prof. Forró at EPFL, School of basic sciences, Institut de physique de la matiere complexe 1999 Diploma thesis on the subject of the development of microcalorimetric measurements and the measurements of heat capacity of (TaSe4)2I 1994-1999 Physics department at the University of Zagreb, experimental and theoretical solid-state physics 1994 baccalaureate, MIOC high school AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 ERC Starting Grant 2004 Latsis Foundation University Prize 2003 Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation 1997 Scholarship of the University of Zagreb 1997 Rector's award for the best student work in the academic year 1996/97 for the best student paper "Application of hierarchical models on the thermal relaxation in SDW systems" 1994 Participation on the 25th International Physics Olympiad in Beijing MAIN PUBLICATIONS Interlayer Forces and Ultralow Sliding Friction in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, A. Kis, K. Jensen, S. Aloni, W. Mickelson, A. Zettl, Physical Review Letters 97, 025501 (2006) Reinforcement of single-walled nanotube bundles by intertube bridging, A. Kis, G. Csanyi, J.-P. Salvetat, Lee, Thien-Nga E. Couteau, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoit, J. Brugger, L. Forró, Nature Materials 3, 153 (2004) A Cell Nanoinjector Based on Carbon Nanotubes, Xing Chen, Andras Kis, Alex Zettl Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 8218 (2007). Shrinking a Carbon Nanotube, T.D. Yuzvinsky, W. Mickelson, S. Aloni, G.E. Begtrup, A. Kis, A. Zettl, Nano Letters 3, 2718, (2006) Controlled placement of highly aligned carbon nanotubes for the manufacture of arrays of nanoscale torsional actuators, T. D. Yuzvinsky, A. M. Fennimore, A. Kis, A. Zettl, Nanotechnology 17, 434 (2007) Imaging the life story of nanotube devices, T. D. Yuzvinsky, W. Mickelson, S. Aloni, S. L. Konsek, A. M. Fennimore, G. E. Begtrup, A. Kis, B. C. Regan A. Zettl, Applied Physics Letters 87, 083103 (2005) Nanomechanics of microtubules, A. Kis, S. Kasas, B. Babic, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoît, G.A.D. Briggs, C. Schönenberger, S. Catsicas, L. Forró, Physical Review Letters 89, 248101 (2002) Shear and Young's moduli of MoS2 nanotube ropes, A. Kis, D. Mihailovic, M. Remskar, A. Mrzel, A. Jesih, I. Piwonski, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoit, L. Forró, Advanced Materials 15, 733 (2003)

Skills Nanotechnology Nanoelectronics Nanofabrication Nanomechanics Nanomanipulation AFM, TEM, SEM Teaching Electrical and Electronics Engineering Physical models for micro and nanosystems [en] (SEL) Phd programs Electrical Engineering Microsystems and Microelectronics Physics (edoc) Phd Students Alahgholipour Omrani Arash Benameur Mohamed Brivio Jacopo Giacometti Valentina Radisavljevic Branimir