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Dr. Hortense LE FERRAND

Dr. Hortense Le Ferrand holds a master and a doctorate degree in Materials Science from ETH Zürich in Switzerland and a diplôme d'Ingénieur from the Grande Ecole ESPCI Paris, France. Her doctoral thesis on magnetically-driven of bio-inspired composites was acknowledged with several prizes and awards.

After a visiting period in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, where she focused on morphing structures, Dr. Hortense obtained funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation to study protein assemblies at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

In january 2019, she joined the schools of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) of NTU as an Assistant Professor and was awarded the prestigious NRF fellowship in January 2020.

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Dr. Hortense has been trained and inspired by numerous mentors in the field of ceramics, metallurgy, chemistry, biology. Find out about her academic genealogy in her academic "dendrimer".

Prizes & awards

Nanyang research award, young investigator 2023
Nature award, Inspiring Women in Science, scientific achievement, 2023
MIT innovator under 35, Europe list, 2023
MAE Staff award (faculty category), NTU, Singapore, 2022
National Research Foundation Fellowship, Singapore, 2020
Research as art Runner Up 2019, Swansea University, UK
MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize 2018
ETH MaP (Materials and Processes) award 2018
3rd prize Art of Science competition from Microscopy center FACTS, NTU, 2018
Chemistry prize from Dimitri N. Chorafas foundation, 2017
ETHZ silver medal for outstanding thesis, 2017

Poster prize at MRS Boston, symposium Bio-inspired nanomaterials, 2016
Research Fellowship Early Postdoc Mobility, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2016

Mobility grant from IDEA League (twice) and Erasmus, 2011, 2012
Excellence Scholarship awarded by Michelin Company, 2011