At the Dubochet Center for imaging, atoms are made visible
Research
EPFL
Fully operational for two weeks, the Dubochet Center for Imaging was presented to the press on November 22. The DCI houses the world’s most advanced cryo-electron microscopes, which promises considerable advances in biomedical research thanks to the precision of the images that these microscopes can obtain.
Campus Chemistry Physics Optics
Further Reading
“I cannot imagine our life without biodiversity”
Research
Eawag
Researchers Christoph Vorburger and Florian Altermatt talk about the importance and state of aquatic biodiversity in Switzerland and Eawag’s commitment to conserving natural biodiversity.
Biodiversity Ecosystem Pollution Society Interview
“We need a smart innovation policy”
Politics
ETH Zurich
How can we decarbonise our economy by 2050? ETH Zurich Professor Tobias Schmidt argues that the answer lies in a radical technological transformation. He describes his journey from engineer to policy researcher – and his determination to build bridges between science and policy.
Sustainability Innovation Engineering Energy
Healthy newborns thanks to artifical intelligence
TechTransfer
ETH Board
The ETH AI Center is becoming an interdisciplinary hotspot for artificial intelligence. A new generation of AI researchers will be trained there, says Professor Andreas Krause, but also AI entrepreneurs who bring research to the economy. Such application-oriented research is already being conducted there today. Professor Julia Vogt, for example, bridges the gap between data-driven computer science and applied medicine.
Artificial Intelligence Future Start-up Annual Report 2020
ETH Zurich
EPFL
PSI
WSL
Empa
Eawag
The ETH Domain strives to strengthen the competitiveness of Switzerland in the long term and contribute to the development of society through excellence in research, teaching and knowledge and technology transfer.
More girls in STEM disciplines – But how?
Teaching
ETH Board
The Federal Council has instructed the ETH Domain to increase the proportion of women in the natural and technical sciences. But how is that to be done?