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On the recommendation of ETH President Joël Mesot, the ETH Board appointed nine new ETH professors, among them astrophysicist Sascha Quanz, currently Senior Scientist at the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, who becomes Associate Professor of Exoplanets and Habitability. 

As part of last week's Honors Ceremony of the IEEE in San Diego (US), ETH physics professor Ursula Keller received the Edison Medal, in recognition of her innovations that have pushed the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology.

Some 25 years after the first production of the Bose–Einstein condensate, Master's students in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich now work in this field. With an exciting experiment, they trace the steps of the three physicists who won the Nobel Prize for their work in 2001.

Rachel Grange, professor at the Institute for Quantum Electronics, receives one of 54 Proof of Concept Grants that the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded in the latest funding round. The grant enables her and her group to further explore the commercial potential of a new approach to the characterization of materials.