News
The following feed highlights activities and achievements of scientists from the MaP community.
Golden Owl 2024 for Raoul Hopf
Raoul Hopf, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mechanical Systems at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Golden Owl 2024 for his outstanding teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. Congratulations!
Fresh off the press in Data-Centric Engineering!
Flexible multi-fidelity framework for load estimation of wind farms through graph neural networks and transfer learning: work led by Gregory Duthé of our Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich. The work is co-authored with RTDT Laboratories AG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & OWI-Lab.
The IMAC 2024 Proceedings are now out
Check out works of our group on Structural Dynamics, Reduced Order Modelling, Structural Health Monitoring, and Decision Making under Uncertainty.
Nicola Spaldin receives the 2024 award for best teaching
The aim of the Award for Best Teaching is to promote quality teaching at tertiary level, and to strengthen Switzerland as a science and research location.
IBM Research Award 2024 to Miguel Steiner
As part of the ETH Day 2024 celebrations, Dr. Miguel Steiner received the IBM Research Award 2024 for his dissertation on navigating the catalytic reaction space with automated and controlled mechanism exploration approaches. The prize, sponsored by IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, is awarded alternately to outstanding master's and doctoral theses in the fields of computational chemistry, physics, biology and materials science.
Honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich 2024 for Scott E. Denmark
Scott E. Denmark studied Chemistry at the MIT and ETH Zurich. In 1987, he became professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. Four years later he was named the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry. Now, on ETH Day 2024, Scott E. Denmark has been awarded the honorary doctorate of ETH Zurich for the development of new catalysis concepts and useful synthesis methods as well as detailed mechanistic and stereochemical studies of preparatively important reactions.
Visit of TEDD network to Department BSSE and BEL
Members of TEDD network visited Department BSSE and BEL including research presentations and laboratory tours.. TEDD is Swiss competence center devoted to Tissue Engineering for Drug Development and Substance Testing.
Recap: ETH Zurich MaP Doctoral School Onboarding Event 2024
The MaP Doctoral School hosted its 2024 onboarding event at the Dozentenfoyer last Tuesday, 12 November. Around 60 doctoral students gathered to connect, exchange ideas, and enjoy Zurich’s iconic views over the city and lake. This year’s event focused entirely on building connections — true to the school's motto: “Connecting doctoral students.”
Phoenix Prize in Pharmaceutical Technology for Prof. Leroux
A prize for the development of syringeless formulations for sensitive APIs
Best presentation award at EPG Conference for Manon Murdeu
Best presentation award (second place) for Manon Murdeu (EMPA St. Gallen and BEL) at 19th European Placenta Group (EPG) Conference 2024 in Hradec Kràlové, Czech Republic.