2019

Salvador Pané i Vidal will start as Titular Professor of Materials for Robotics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering on 1 January 2020. In his research the 39-year-old chemist from Barcelona combines materials science with robotics at small scales.

Professor Giovanni Sansavini, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, has been appointed Associate Professor of Reliability and Risk Engineering.

A research group led by ETH Professor Petros Koumoutsakos from the Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory was awarded the 2019 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for its video on the formation of foam crowns on waves.

Double honor for the Institute of Virtual Manufacturing of Professor Pavel Hora. Doctoral student Maximilian Neuhauser has won the MATERIALICA Award 2019 for students. Neuhauser and Felix Linnenschmidt also received Venture Kick funding for their ETH spin-off OptoGuard.

Maria Lukatskaya has been appointed Assistant Professor for Electrochemical Energy Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. She works in the field of energy science and electrical energy storage. On 1 December 2019, the 31-year-old Muscovite will take up her position. We introduce her in an interview.

Why should I study engineering? Answers to this question were given by the Departments Mechanical and Process Engineering as well as Electrical Engineering and Information Technology to the more than 80 participants at the taster day for schoolgirls on 29 November.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld

Konstruktionspraxis online, Prof. Bradley Nelson, Paul-Scherrer-Instituts PSI

Georgios A. Kelesidis, doctoral student at the Particle Technology Laboratory, was awarded at the AIChE Conference 2019 for his work on the influence of carbonaceous nanoparticles on climate.

Mark Tibbitt, Professor and Head of the Macromolecular Engineering Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, receives the Golden Owl for excellent teaching. The Owl is awarded by the ETH Zurich’s students association (VSETH) and honors exceptional teaching.

Innovations-report, Prof. Bradley Nelson

Eight outstanding doctoral thesis’ at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering were honored with the ETH Medal 2019. With great commitment, our talented postgraduate students completed their doctoral thesis successfully and are now ready for new challenges.

nzz.ch, Prof. Bradley Nelson

Andrea Pedrioli, Master student in Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the Pro Ticino Zurigo -  Chicco d'Oro 2019 student prize by the Pro Ticino Association in Zurich on 28 October 2019.

Andreas Güntner, Lecturer and Group Leader at the Particle Technology Laboratory, received the Product Design Excellence Award for his doctoral thesis from the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) during its 2019 meeting in Florence, Italy.

nzz.ch, Prof. Roland Siegwart

Der Standard, Prof. Margarita Chli

Stern, Spin-off Climeworks

Ten students at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering received an Excellence Scholarship from the ETH Foundation. Ayush Garg, Franziska Eckert, Pascal Hodel, Lukas Hoyer, Luke Prakash Idiculla, Seok Joon Kim, Daniel Mesham, Louis Pahlavi, Kaixian Qu, Annan Zhang.

Marco Mazzotti, Professor and leader of the Separation Processes Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, and his former doctoral student Franziska Ortner, were honored at the 13th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption in Cairns, Australia.

The Bachelor Outstanding Awards for the best Bachelor`s degrees issued between 25.09.2018 and 20.09.2019 go to: Annan Zhang, Lukas Spannagel, Niklaus Markus Leuenberger, Franziska Eckert and Yannik Michael Glauser. Congratulations!

The students Robin Hannes Jahn, Nazim Ozan Yasar, Roland Georg Stärk, Zoe Florence Hoek und Alex Brandes received the Bachelor Outstanding Award for the best first-year exams during the Spring Semester 2019. Congratulations!

Under the motto "Facing Robots", the ZFF visitors can currently get to know "ANYmal" and the former Focus-projects Proboscis and Ascento. At the opening of the exhibition on 28 September 2019, Professor Margarita Chli spoke about artificial intelligence.

Dr. Andreas Güntner, group leader at the Particle Technology Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, and Jan van den Broek, doctoral student in the same group, received the GAeF PhD Award and a Best Poster Award at the European Aerosol Conference 2019 in Sweden.

Bilanz, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld

Seraina Dual, former doctoral student in Professor Meboldt’s Product Development Group Zurich, received the Gold ESAO PhD Award from the European Society for Artificial Organs for her doctoral thesis “Measurement Principles for a Real-Time Cardiac Volume Sensor”.

George Haller, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives. Less than half percent of the more than 50,000 members, including all areas of physics, receive this distinction.

Michael Gerlt, doctoral student in Professor Dual’s group at the Institute for Mechanical Systems, received the RWB Stephens Prize for his talk «Acoustic particle manipulation inside microscale droplets for highly efficient separation» at the International Congress on Ultrasonics in Belgium.

As of 1 January 2020, Dimos Poulikakos, ETH Professor of Thermodynamics, was elected President of the Division IV/Programs of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and, as such, he becomes a member of the SNF Presiding Board.

Kevin Bircher was awarded the Research Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering. He receives the award for his work in the research group of Professor Edoardo Mazza at the Institute of Mechanical Systems.

What are the key technologies of tomorrow? How can scientific ideas find a way into the market? ETH Industry Day 2019 provided answers.

Schweizer Illustrierte, Prof. Roland Siegwart

tagesanzeiger.ch, Prof. Bradley Nelson

nzz.ch, Prof. Horst-Michael Prasser

Andrea Antenucci, former doctoral student at the Reliability and Risk Engineering Laboratory of Professor Giovanni Sansavini at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been awarded the Donald Julius Groen Prize by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

20min.ch, Fokus-Projekt Formula Student Electric

medicalxpress.com, Prof. Bradley Nelson

nzz.ch, Swissloop

Michael Patrick Mühlebach, former doctoral student of Professor Raffaello D'Andrea at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control Engineering of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, receives the HILTI Prize.

Jürg Werner, CEO of Metall Zug AG, is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. With the ETH Alumni Association, he talks about education and career.

St. Galler Tagblatt, Prof. Marco Hutter, Pascal Lieberherr

Sergio Vernuccio, former doctoral student at the Transport Processes and Reactions Laboratory of Professor Emeritus Philipp Rudolf von Rohr, has been appointed junior professor at the University of Sheffield, UK.

fon-times.ch, Fokus-Projekt adero

Marianna Diamantopoulou won the 1st place in the Best Image Contest of the 14th Materials and Processes Graduate Symposium on 3 July 2019. Diamantopoulou is a doctoral student in the Computational Modelling of Materials in Manufacturing group of Professor Dirk Mohr at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering.

23rd ETH Nanoparticle Conference: Georgios Kelesidis and Alexander Bruun from the Particle Technology Lab of Professor Sotiris Pratsinis at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering received an award for their research poster.

Physics, Prof. Kristina Shea

blick.ch, Fokus-Projekt CHIRON

watson.ch, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld, Dr. Philipp Furler

SRF, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld, Dr. Philipp Furler

During the ETH Studienwoche from 3 to 7 June 2019, 30 high school students built their own smartwatches. They were supported by researchers and students from D-MAVT and D-ITET.

SRF, Spin-off Voliro

Tagesschau, Prof. Roland Siegwart

Three research teams from ETH Zurich and Empa have joined forces in an interdisciplinary project to investigate how internal combustion engines can be made fit to use of renewable, CO2-neutral fuels. In addition to electromobility, fuels from biogenic sources ('biofuels') or 'e-fuels' produced synthetically with regenerative electricity can also contribute to sustainable mobility.

Science Business, Spin-off Scewo AG

Tagesanzeiger, Spin-off Wingtra

Blick, Spin-off Anybotics

Nature Communications, Claudio U. Hail et al., Prof. Dimos Poulikakos

On 10 May 2019, 260 graduates celebrated their graduation. D-MAVT congratulates you warmly to your Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, in Process Engineering, in Robotics, Systems and Control, in Micro- and Nanosystems and in Nuclear Engineering.  

The following Master's students of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering were awarded the ETH Medal for their outstanding Master’s thesis in 2019: Pol Duhr, Daniel Gehrig, Marco Gysel, Nikolaos Kallikounis, Connor Lane, Joonho Lee, Simone Mambelli, Anna Moro, Tiemo Pedergnana.

The following Master's students of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering were awarded the Willi Studer Prize for the best degree within their study program in 2019: Pol Duhr, Daniel Gehrig, Nikolaos Kallikounis, Joonho Lee, Marco Gysel, Simone Mambelli. Gysel and Mambelli even were the best graduates since 2010.

David Rohr receives the ETEL Master Award 2019 for the best Master’s thesis in mechatronics at the Departments of Mechanical and Process Engineering as well as Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. The thesis "Tiltwing VTOL Flight-Control System" was supervised by Professor Roland Siegwart.

Petros Koumoutsakos, Professor of Computational Science at ETH Zurich, has been elected 78th member of the "Hall of Fame of the Digital Age" of the Zuse Institute Berlin and the Tagesspiegel.

SRF, Fokus-Projekt VariLeg enhanced

SRF, Prof. Marco Mazzotti

3D-grenzenlos Magazin, Prof. Dimos Poulikakos

Several doctoral students and researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) have been appointed assistant professors at other universities worldwide.

Blick, Prof. Horst-Michael Prasser

Inge Herrmann has been appointed Assistant Professor for Nanoparticular Systems at the Institute of Process Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. She develops new technologies for medicine.

Basler Zeitung, Prof. Konstantinos Boulouchos

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Prof. Konstantinos Boulouchos

Nau.ch, Prof. Horst-Michael Prasser

JWD. Stern.de, Prof. Mark Tibbitt

Blick, Prof. Dimos Poulikakos, Christopher Walker, Efstratios Mitridis

Petros Koumoutsakos, Head of the Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed Associate Editor of the American Physical Society APS Journal «Physical Review Fluids».  

20 Minuten, Spin-off Verity

Basler Zeitung, Spin-off Climeworks

Nau.ch, Spin-off Scewo

SRF, Prof. Roland Siegwart

Kleine Zeitung, Annan Zhang (Bachelor D-MAVT)

Netzwoche, Prof. Roland Siegwart

20 Minuten, Prof. Kristina Shea

Sotiris Pratsinis, Professor and Head of the Particle Technology Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, is honored with the 25th KONA Award.

Spiegel Online, Prof. Bradley Nelson

Japan Times, Prof. Bradley Nelson

Scientists at ETH Zurich and EPFL have developed tiny elastic robots that can change shape depending on their surroundings. Modeled after bacteria and fully biocompatible, these robots optimize their movements to get to hard-to-reach areas of the human body. They stand to revolutionize targeted drug delivery.

SRF 1 Tagesschau, Prof. Roland Siegwart, Spin-off Sevensense  

ETH Zürich, Prof. Marco Hutter

dailymail.co.uk, Prof. Marco Hutter

Tagesanzeiger, Prof. Jan Carmeliet