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Raffaella Buonsanti

raffaella.buonsanti@epfl.ch http://lnce.epfl.ch

Nationality: Italian

EPFL Valais Wallis
EPFL SB ISIC LNCE
Rue de l'Industrie 17
1951 Sion

Awards

Outstanding Mentors Award from the Center for Science and Engineering Education

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2011

R&D 100 Award for Universal Smart Window Coating

2013

Werner Prize

Swiss Chemical Society

2021

ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2019

2019

Lecture Award

European Chimical Society (EuChemS)

2019

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Coline Boulanger, Jennifer Calderon Mora, Seyedmohamadjavad Chabok, Marco Fabbiano, Riya Gupta, Moritz Tritschler, Hugh Andrew Warkentin

Past EPFL PhD Students

Laia Castilla Amorós (2022), Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar (2020), Yannick Thomas Guntern (2021), Pranit Srinivas Iyengar (2021), Valeria Mantella (2020), Valery Okatenko (2023), Seryio Saris (2020), Ona Segura Lecina (2024), Seyedehbehnaz Varandili (2021), Jan Vávra (2022), Ludovic Emile Frédy Zaza (2026)

Courses

Introduction to chemical engineering Laboratory Works

ChE-203

This course aims to expose the students to basic and modern processes/systems important to chemical engineers. Students perform experiments in groups, analyze results and use these to design industrial scale processes. Written and oral reports and laboratory performance are used for the final mark

Introduction to transport phenomena

ChE-204

This course aims at understanding the basic equations behind macroscopic and microscopic transport phenomena (mass, heat and momentum).

Nanomaterials for chemical engineering application

ChE-430

This course provides an overview on nanoparticle synthesis and their use in different energy-related applications. The first part of the course is more fundamental and chemistry oriented. The second part is more applied and chemical engineering oriented. The goal is to link the two aspects.