News
The following feed highlights activities and achievements of scientists from the MaP community.
Simon-Pierre Le Clézio wins the ETH MAS Excellence Award
D-MTEC MAS student Simon-Pierre has received the ETH MAS Excellence Award, which recognizes the student with the best overall academic performance based on their Grade Point Average (GPA).
Nicola Spaldin Awarded Carus Medal by Leopoldina
Professor Nicola Spaldin, a pioneer in multiferroic materials, will receive the prestigious Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
UAV-Based SHM and NDE for Infrastructure
In their Master thesis with our chair, Roman Dautzenberg and Timo Küster, demonstrate how uncrewed aerial systems can revolutionize infrastructure monitoring.
Congratulations to Oliver Boolakee for winning the SWICCOMAS 2025 Poster Competition!
Oliver Boolakee, doctoral student in the Computational Mechanics Group, recently won the best poster award in the SWICCOMMAS 2025 Poster Competition held at Bern University on March 21st. Bravo!
Celebrating Excellence: Jan-Hendrik Bastek wins SWICCOMAS PhD Thesis Award 2025
We are thrilled to share the great news that Dr. Jan-Hendrik Bastek has been honored as one of the recipients of the SWICCOMAS PhD Thesis Award 2025!
ETH Medal Awarded for Master’s Thesis on Inventory Management in Complex Manufacturing Environments
Nils Löwhagen has been awarded the ETH Medal for an outstanding master’s thesis completed in collaboration with MANN+HUMMEL. The thesis explores how critical path methodology and process mining can improve inventory management in low-volume, high-mix production systems.
New members Welcome
We are delighted to welcome two new doctoral candidates to the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich, who will contribute to ongoing research in wind energy systems and railway dynamics.
MaP Professors Shared Grant-Writing Strategies
On 27 March 2025, around 20 postdocs and senior scientists gathered at ETH Hönggerberg for an insightful session on grant proposal writing. Prof. Laura De Lorenzis and Prof. Salvador Pané i Vidal from D-MAVT covered the general principles of grant writing and successful examples from European Commission and Swiss programmes.
New publication in Small on a biohybrid artificial cell system for mimicking infections in cellular and tissue contexts.
Congratulations to Dr. Strutt, Dr. Jusková, with co-authors!
Dr. Konstantinos Vlachas among SWICCOMAS Prize 2025 recipients
Each year, the Swiss Community for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences awards the SWICCOMAS Prize for outstanding thesis dissertation.