Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
66
researchers on the list
16
rank in Switzerland
961
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lothenbach, Barbara | Building & Construction | 17 / 56,454 | 8 / 56,454 |
| Kovalenko, Maksym V. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 163 / 177,859 | 61 / 177,859 |
| Züttel, Andreas | Materials | 56 / 330,896 | 41 / 330,896 |
| Nowack, Bernd | Environmental Sciences | 22 / 140,934 | 78 / 140,934 |
| Wang, Zhanyun | Environmental Sciences | 1,962 / 140,934 | 294 / 140,934 |
| Winnefeld, Frank | Building & Construction | 174 / 56,454 | 126 / 56,454 |
| Defraeye, Thijs | Food Science | 304 / 107,913 | 179 / 107,913 |
| Leemann, Andreas | Building & Construction | 319 / 56,454 | 314 / 56,454 |
| Burgert, Ingo | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 576 / 177,859 | 1,496 / 177,859 |
| Kovač, Mirko | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,390 / 131,085 | 502 / 131,085 |
| Rossi, René Michel | Materials | 984 / 330,896 | 1,136 / 330,896 |
| Zhao, Shanyu | Materials | 7,135 / 330,896 | 1,143 / 330,896 |
| Hauert, Roland | Applied Physics | 1,346 / 323,282 | 1,791 / 323,282 |
| Battaglia, Corsin | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,352 / 177,859 | 1,949 / 177,859 |
| Wyrzykowski, Mateusz | Building & Construction | 1,012 / 56,454 | 516 / 56,454 |
| Malfait, Wim J. | Materials | 2,378 / 330,896 | 1,307 / 330,896 |
| Bodnarchuk, Maryna I. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,504 / 177,859 | 2,207 / 177,859 |
| Thöny-Meyer, Linda | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,285 / 216,826 | — |
| Nyström, Gustav | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,471 / 177,859 |
| Hischier, Roland | Environmental Sciences | 1,167 / 140,934 | 1,513 / 140,934 |
| Zaumanis, Martins | Building & Construction | 917 / 56,454 | 632 / 56,454 |
| Ruffieux, Pascal | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,659 / 177,859 | 2,678 / 177,859 |
| Tiwari, Ayodhya Nath | Applied Physics | 1,873 / 323,282 | 2,903 / 323,282 |
| Gaan, Sabyasachi | Polymers | 2,419 / 133,253 | 666 / 133,253 |
| Wheeler, Jeffrey M. | Materials | 2,907 / 330,896 | 1,682 / 330,896 |
| Rieder, Karl Heinz | Applied Physics | 2,012 / 323,282 | — |
| Erni, Rolf P. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,073 / 177,859 | 2,984 / 177,859 |
| Fu, Fan | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,310 / 177,859 |
| Iqbal, Aamir | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,443 / 177,859 |
| Leinenbach, Christian | Materials | 5,309 / 330,896 | 2,091 / 330,896 |
| Hegemann, Dírk | Applied Physics | 2,435 / 323,282 | 1,962 / 323,282 |
| Allegrini, Jonas | Building & Construction | 991 / 56,454 | 875 / 56,454 |
| Siqueira, Gilberto De Freitas | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 4,003 / 177,859 |
| Onwude, Daniel Iroemeha | Food Science | — | 1,380 / 107,913 |
| Kaufmann, Josef P. | Building & Construction | 745 / 56,454 | 992 / 56,454 |
| Helveg, Stig | Physical Chemistry | 403 / 44,088 | 781 / 44,088 |
| Poulikakos, Lily D. | Building & Construction | — | 1,103 / 56,454 |
| Schwarze, Francis Willis Mathew Robert | Forestry | 144 / 36,413 | 182 / 36,413 |
| Shahverdi, M. | Materials | — | 3,007 / 330,896 |
| Braun, Artur | Energy | 2,055 / 371,959 | — |
| Motavalli, Masoud | Civil Engineering | 1,068 / 67,736 | 795 / 67,736 |
| Brunner, Andreas J. | Materials | 2,372 / 330,896 | 3,329 / 330,896 |
| Wick, Peter | Toxicology | 1,016 / 69,049 | 500 / 69,049 |
| Hirunsit, Pussana | Physical Chemistry | — | 482 / 44,088 |
| Gröning, Oliver | Applied Physics | 3,877 / 323,282 | 5,174 / 323,282 |
| Michler, Johann | Materials | 2,914 / 330,896 | 3,681 / 330,896 |
| Clemens, Frank Jörg | Materials | — | 3,902 / 330,896 |
| Hosseini, Ehsan | Materials | — | 3,926 / 330,896 |
| Fasel, Roman | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,048 / 177,859 | — |
| Nüesch, Frank Alain | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,053 / 177,859 | — |
| Schlapbach, Louis | Applied Physics | 4,447 / 323,282 | — |
| Li, Mengmeng | Polymers | — | 1,815 / 133,253 |
| Czaderski, Christoph | Materials | 6,000 / 330,896 | 4,688 / 330,896 |
| Wasmer, Kilian | Materials | — | 4,993 / 330,896 |
| Jeurgens, Lars P.H. | Materials | 5,784 / 330,896 | 5,396 / 330,896 |
| Holdsworth, Stuart Richard | Materials | 3,497 / 330,896 | 5,479 / 330,896 |
| Boesel, Luciano F. | Polymers | 2,413 / 133,253 | 2,301 / 133,253 |
| Kuebler, Jakob J. | Materials | 3,470 / 330,896 | — |
| Schäffer, Beat | Acoustics | — | 559 / 38,987 |
| Hufenus, Rudolf | Polymers | — | 2,669 / 133,253 |
| Meier, Urs | Materials | 3,972 / 330,896 | 7,096 / 330,896 |
| Shevchik, Sergey A. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 2,889 / 131,085 |
| Graule, Thomas J. | Materials | 4,412 / 330,896 | — |
| Pieren, Reto | Acoustics | — | 669 / 38,987 |
| Wunderli, Jean Marc | Acoustics | — | 741 / 38,987 |
| Kovacs, Gabor M. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,382 / 140,272 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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