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Eight SNSF Starting Grants for ETH researchers

A microscope in the left half of the picture, in the right half a hand holding banknotes to the left.

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

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 William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands

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

Yiwen Chu in the forest

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

A close-up of the record-breaking laser

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

Speaker and audience in an auditorium

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

Portraits of the newly appointed professors

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

Three screens displaying code

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

Quantum path

IBM quantum hardware

An interview with D-PHYS alumna Dr Elisa Bäumer, Research Scientist at IBM Zurich.

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