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Isabella Schalko has received an Ambizione grant from SNF for her research project "Ecological fluid dynamics for habitat creation in river systems". She will start at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics on 1 November 2022.

The team of the focus project VIEshunt was awarded the Young Investigators Award. The award was presented at the Hydrocephalus Conference 2022 in Gothenburg in September.

Inge Herrmann, ETH Professor of Nanoparticulate Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been awarded the Smoluchowski Award 2022.

Ines Weber, former doctoral student at the Particle Technology Laboratory of Professor Sotiris Pratsinis at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, wins the GAeF PhD Award at the 2022 International Aerosol Conference for her outstanding doctoral thesis. Another doctoral student and a Master's student from the lab receive poster awards.

Urban Fasel, former doctoral student in Professor Paolo Ermanni's Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been appointed Lecturer at Imperial College London in the Department of Aeronautics.

Alexandre Anthis, former doctoral student of Professor Inge Herrmann at the Nanoparticle Systems Engineering Lab, won the MaP Award 2022 for his doctoral thesis "Design and Formulation of Stimuli-Responsive Surgical Materials".  

Quizzical glances, astounded faces; high school students are hustling and bustling in the ETH main building. That was the atmosphere at the Student Information Days on 7 and 8 September 2022, on-site for the first time since 2019.

Emilio Frazzoli, ETH Professor of Dynamical Systems and Control, together with Sertac Karaman, received the RSS Test of Time Award 2022, which goes to high impact research published at least ten years ago in the field of robotics.