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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