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As the speaker at this year's Paul Bernays Lectures, Michel Devoret discussed quantum information processing with superconducting circuits – and took the time to find out about the variety of research activities in the physics department, too.

Four women and four men successfully applied for Starting Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation via ETH Zurich.

Tobias Donner received the Golden Owl award for his teaching activities in the Department of Physics. The ETH Zurich Student Association (VSETH) honours lecturers whose excellent teaching stands out with this yearly award.

The group of Professor Alexandre Refregier uses the data collected by ambitious surveys to work out the nature of dark matter, dark energy and our expanding universe.

ETH Professor Yiwen Chu is investigating how to apply quantum states to ever larger objects. This should help to gain new insights into physics and develop more efficient technologies. She has now been awarded the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize for her outstanding research.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a laser that produces the strongest ultra-short laser pulses to date. In the future, such high power pulses could be used for precision measurements or materials processing.

Physics laboratory technicians from the industry and public research sectors have been attending external training courses in the Department of Physics for a decade.

For this year's Wolfgang Pauli Lectures, John Preskill offered a crash course on quantum information science, from entanglement to error correction for quantum computing.

At its meeting of 18 and 19 September 2024 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed fifteen professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once.

An interview with D-PHYS alumnus Dr Szymon Hennel, formerly risk model developer at UBS.