News
The following feed highlights activities and achievements of scientists from the MaP community.
Focus Rollout 2026
Rolling into the future - Focus Rollout 27.05.2026
Engineering neuronal networks through precise electrical stimulation
Scalable all-electrical method for precise neuronal-circuit reconfiguration with high-density microelectrode arrays was developed. Targeted connectivity changes were successfully induced, quantified across diverse neuronal preparations, and validated through simultaneous patch-clamp recordings.
Electro-optic Modulation in Polycrystalline Barium Titanate Metasurfaces Enhanced by Poling
We are happy to share our new work published in ACS Photonics on electro-optic modulation in imprinted BTO metasurfaces.
Congratulations to Dr. Evgenia Kountoupi
...for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
“Always moving forward!”
During his nearly 30 years at D-CHAB, Hansjörg Grützmacher has trained numerous future chemists and published discoveries in the field of photoinitiators that are now used worldwide. To mark his retirement, the inorganic chemist talks about the ups and downs of a researcher’s life, perfecting 3D printing, his love of water sports, the need for freedom, and what happens when two chemists cook together.
How Would Fungi Take Over the World?
The launch of the FunGathering Seminar Series at ETH Zürich proved one thing above all else: fungi already have.
“It takes a village. Even for bacteria.”
[Community Portrait] Bijing Xiong, a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Petra Dittrich’s Bioanalytics group at D-BSSE, studies how bacterial communities respond to antibiotics. As it turns out, neighbours matter - even for bacteria.
We welcome two new members in the group
A warm welcome to Bastiaan Kooij and Noura Chettata.
TERMIS-EU SYIS Impact Award
We highly congratulate Amelia Hausenauer for earning the TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society) -EU SYIS Impact Award! This international early-career award recognizes outstanding scientific and societal impact in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
SSB+RM Young Scientist Symposium
We warmly congratulate Amelia Hausenauer for winning the SB+RM Young Scientist Symposium, Best Oral Presentation Award for her presentation “Reconstituting the mammary ductal network from human milk-derived epithelial cells".
