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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.