2024

Kristina Shea, Professor of Engineering Design and Computing in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been elected to the Board of Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency.  The Federal Council elected Shea as a new board member for the term 2025 to 2028.

Charles Dorn, postdoctoral researcher at the Mechanics and Materials Laboratory under Professor Dennis Kochmann in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.

Elizabeth Tilley, Professor of Global Health Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, and her team have been awarded the National ORD Prize 2024 by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences for their research project «openwashdata».

Around 80 female students from all over Switzerland had the opportunity to gain insights into electrical engineering and mechanical engineering for a day on 28 November 2024. Organized by the student association LIMES, the program of this year's "Schülerinnentag" included numerous lectures and lab visits.

The ANGIE research project was honored with the «Prototypes for Humanity Award» in the «Health» category. At the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab of the D-MAVT, Fabian Landers and his team are developing magnetically controlled microcapsules that precisely release drugs in the human body.

Maria Lukatskaya, Professor of Electrochemical Energy Systems, and André Bardow, Professor for Energy and Process Systems Engineering, have both been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers in 2024 by global information service provider Clarivate.

Yu Zhang, postdoctoral researcher at the Engineering Design and Computing Laboratory in Professor Kristina Shea's group at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been appointed as assistant professor at the University of Cambridge.

Raoul Hopf, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mechanical Systems at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Golden Owl 2024 for his outstanding teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. 

At this year's ETH Day on 16 November 2024, ETH President Joël Mesot appointed alumnus Walter Fust to the Honorary Board of ETH Zurich. Fust studied mechanical engineering at ETH and founded the electrical retail company Dipl. Ing. Fust AG.

Tom Terlouw has been awarded the ABB Research Prize 2024 for his doctoral thesis ”Techno-economic and environmental assessment of low-carbon energy systems”.

Taking a position at ETH Zurich was the most important decision in his professional life. Marco Mazzotti is still convinced of this today. Now, at the end of January 2025, he will retire, and he already knows that he will greatly miss the exchange with young researchers and the work on challenging scientific questions.

Francesco Vicentini and Marco Cattaneo, doctoral students at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, have received the COMITES award for scientific excellence within Italian community in Zurich. COMITES are representative bodies of the Italian community, elected by Italians residing abroad in each consular district.

BBC News, Dr. Iwan Hächler

Wired, Prof. Bradley Nelson, Spin-off Nanoflex Robotics

Inge Herrmann, Professor of Nanoparticle Systems, has been awarded the Dandelion Award for her outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond. She readily connects people, encourages students to launch start-ups and is a scientific advisor to several spin-offs from her lab.

720 new bachelor students at D-MAVT – 24 percent growth compared to last year

Lucrezia Maini has been awarded the Swiss Physical Society Award 2024 in the Computational Physics category for her doctoral research on acoustic metamaterials to measure temperature with ultrasound for implantable applications.

Reuters, Soft Robotics Lab, Thomas Buchner; Max Planck Institut

Paolo Ermanni receives the Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize 2024. This prize, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of adaptive structures and material systems

Laura De Lorenzis, Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been awarded the IACM Fellows Award by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). The award recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field of computational mechanics.

Tagesanzeiger, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter, Spin-off Swiss Mile

Der Spiegel, Prof. Marco Hutter

CNN, Prof. Dr. Robert Katzschmann

wonderfulengineering.com, Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger

New synfuels can be used directly in today's vehicles

Technology Networks, Prof. Dr. Maria Lukatskaya, Nathan Hong

Aldo Steinfeld, Head of the Renewable Energy Carriers Group at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Yogi and Lovely Goswami Achievement Award in Energy and Sustainability.

Mark Fuge has been appointed Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. Starting 1 July 2024, he will strengthen the Department’s use of AI in technical design and product development processes.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Spin-off Synhelion, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld

Knowridge Science Report, Prof. André Bardow, Dr. Dennis Roskosch

Moritz Flaschel, former doctoral student of the Computational Mechanics Group led by Professor Laura De Lorenzis, receives numerous awards for his dissertation.

Focus Online, Professor Aldo Steinfeld

"INSPIRE Potentials -- Quantum Center Master Award" -- We invite female students looking to conduct a Master‘s project in a research group of the Quantum Center to apply. Deadline: 1 July 2024. 

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Spin-off Climeworks AG

ETH Zurich runs like a red thread through Paolo Ermanni's life. He first studied mechanical engineering here before returning as a professor in 1998. In this interview, he looks back on 26 eventful years in teaching and research.

Roland Siegwart is honored by the academic platform research.com in the field of mechanical and aerospace engineering as well as in the field of electronics and electrical engineering.

Nau, Research project Space Hopper

The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering has awarded 12 Master's students with the ETH Medal and five with the Willi Studer Prize. The awards for their outstanding achievements were presented during the Master's Ceremony 2024.

Patrick Benito Eberhard, Teresa Sánchez-Robles Herrero and Max Schaldach received the «Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award» of the D-MAVT for the fall semester 2023.

Konstantinos Karapiperis and Vignesh Kannan, both postdoctoral researchers in Professor Dennis Kochmann's lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, have been appointed professors.

The Economist, Prof. Dimos Poulikakos

Annalisa Manera and Marco Hutter, professors at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich have been elected full members of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

A new magnetically controlled microrobot helps navigate catheters faster and more accurately in brain surgery. Its unique surface structure improves catheter guidance in tortuous blood vessels. This tech aids emergency stroke or aneurysm surgeries, enhancing patient recovery chances.