MaP News
Dominika Baster (PSI/D-CHAB): “Operando Battery Research: Understanding Materials Under Real Conditions”
[MaP Community Portrait] Dominika Baster is a tenure-track scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), where she works in Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee's PSI Laboratory for Battery Science. Her research focuses on electrochemical energy storage systems.
New Country, New Lab, New Language
[MaP Community Portrait] Julie Nguyen (D-MAVT) followed Prof. Kent Warren from the University of Colorado Boulder to Zurich. She wants to use her first time abroad to build on her research, make new connections, and learn German.
“It takes a village. Even for bacteria.”
[MaP 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.
TU Eindhoven Student Association Meets ETH Zurich's Student Project Focus Teams
Twenty-seven students from Eindhoven University of Technology visited ETH Zurich during their European study tour. The exchange, hosted by the Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP), focused on student-led innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
MaP Postdoc Perspectives & Picnic: Path to Professorship – Event Recap
On 24 November, the ETH Zurich Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP) hosted the Postdoc Perspectives and Picnic: Path to Professorship at ETH Hönggerberg. Three MaP professors, Elsa Abreu (D-PHYS), Mark Tibbitt (D-MAVT) and Laura Bégon-Lours (D-ITET), shared their career journeys, lessons learned, and advice for postdocs considering an academic path.