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Eight SNSF Starting Grants for ETH researchers
Four women and four men successfully applied for Starting Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation via ETH Zurich.
Golden Owl to Tobias Donner
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.
Measuring cosmic distances to understand the expanding universe
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.
Between crystals, cats and quantum
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.
Record-breaking laser pulses
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.
A common ground for physics laboratory technicians
Physics laboratory technicians from the industry and public research sectors have been attending external training courses in the Department of Physics for a decade.
A noisy, intermediate-scale and fun quantum endeavour
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.
Fifteen professors appointed
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.
Measuring risk
An interview with D-PHYS alumnus Dr Szymon Hennel, formerly risk model developer at UBS.
Quantum path
An interview with D-PHYS alumna Dr Elisa Bäumer, Research Scientist at IBM Zurich.