Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2025
The Ig Nobel Awards honor research that makes people laugh, then think.
EPFL and NCCR MARVEL have the pleasure to invite you again this year to this show in English.
Free tickets will be available online from 24 March at 14:00 (max. 2 tickets per person). Link will be provided here in due time.
This event is part of the Ig Nobel EuroTour 2025. This year's program invites you to discover:
Marc Abrahams
Father of the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of Annals of Improbable Research
Tess Heeremans, AMOLF, NL
2024 Chemistry Prize winner — "Using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms"
Marjolaine Willems, CHU Montpellier, FR and Roman Khonsari, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades. Paris, FR
2024 Anatomy Prize winners — "Studying whether the hair on the heads of most people in the northern hemisphere swirls in the same direction — clockwise or counter-clockwise? — as hair on the heads of most people in the southern hemisphere"
Alexandra Sarafoglou and Frantisek Bartos, University of Amsterdam, NL
2024 Probability Prize winners — "Showing, both in theory and by 350'757 experiments, that when you flip a coin, it tends to land on the same side as it started"
Team EPFL Alumni