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Six professors appointed

At the meeting on 21st and 22nd May 2025, the ETH Board appointed two female and four male professors at the request of ETH President Joël Mesot. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor" three times and the title of "Professor of Practice" twice.

22.05.2025 by Editorial team

What if we don’t find any life on the exoplanets, Doctor Angerhausen?

A portrait of astrophysicist Daniel Angerhausen with an exoplanet photographed from space in the background

The planned space missions to search for remote life will provide valuable insights even if they do not find any evidence of life, says astrophysicist Daniel Angerhausen.

16.04.2025 by Fabio Bergamin, Corporate Communications

Higgs, hadrons, big ideas: CERN experiments receive Breakthrough Prize

At a ceremony in Los Angeles on 5 April, the four major experimental collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – were awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

09.04.2025 by Editorial team

Crystal lattice at a distance

An illustration of two crystal lattices with electrons inside in the form of golden spheres

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they created an artificial crystal lattice in a neighbouring material.

07.03.2025 by Oliver Morsch, freelance author

Four SNSF Advanced Grants go to ETH Zurich researchers

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

A biologist, a neuroscientist, a materials scientist and a physicist have each been awarded one of the prestigious grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

15.01.2025 by Fabio Bergamin und Peter Rüegg, Corporate Communications