Die Delegiertenversammlung der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT) hat Nina Buchmann, Professorin für Graslandwissenschaften an der ETH Zürich, in ihren Vorstand gewählt. Die international renommierte Forscherin und Leiterin des Instituts für Agrarwissenschaften an der ETH Zürich wird ihr Amt am 1. Januar 2027 antreten.
Professor David Basin from ETH Zurich’s Institute of Information Security (D-INFK) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Chalmers University of Technology. The award recognises his outstanding contributions to cybersecurity research and his long-standing collaboration with Chalmers.
A research team in the Laboratory for Solid State Physics showed that a hybrid quantum computing architecture consisting of a transmon qubit and a bulk acoustic wave resonator can perform key two-qubit gates and quantum algorithms.