Celia Luterbacher

LOCATION

Lausanne, Switzerland

PROFESSION

Science Writer

About

I am a communicator and enthusiast of science in all its forms. My goal is always for people to understand science as a process, and not just a collection of facts. A graduate of Cornell University, I began my career in the United States with an internship in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Policy Analysis and Communications Office, followed by science communication roles at the Ecological Society of America in Washington, DC and the U.S. Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2013 I moved to Switzerland to work on the editorial staff of the Human Brain Project in Geneva. In 2015, I left Geneva for the Swiss capital of Bern to lead the science beat at swissinfo.ch, the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.

Latest Posts

An ink for 3D-printing flexible devices without mechanical joints

EPFL researchers are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the need for cumbersome mechanical joints.

Artificial nanofluidic synapses can store computational memory

In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic – or brain-inspired – computing, EPFL engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than electrons, to process data.

Researchers unveil first Chat-GPT-designed robot

EPFL researchers have used Chat-GPT-3 to develop a robotic gripper for harvesting tomatoes, in a first demonstration of the artificial intelligence tool’s potential for collaborating with humans on robot design.

Cryo-imaging lifts the lid on fuel cell catalyst layers

Thanks to a novel combination of cryogenic transmission electron tomography and deep learning, EPFL researchers have provided a first look at the nanostructure of platinum catalyst layers, revealing how they could be optimized for fuel cell efficiency.

Thread-like pumps can be woven into clothes

EPFL researchers have developed fiber-like pumps that allow high-pressure fluidic circuits to be woven into textiles without an external pump. Soft supportive exoskeletons, thermoregulatory clothing, and immersive haptics can therefore be powered from pumps sewn into the fabric of the devices themselves.

3D printing with bacteria-loaded ink produces bone-like composites

EPFL researchers have published a method for 3D-printing an ink that contains calcium carbonate-producing bacteria. The 3D-printed mineralized bio-composite is unprecedently strong, light, and environmentally friendly, with a range of applications from art to biomedicine.