June

Every year over 5 billion birds migrate between Europe and Africa. In order to reduce the collision risk of these birds with wind farms, a team from the ETH Laboratory of Energy Conversion, led by Dr. Ndaona Chokani, has developed a forecast model for migratory birds.

The RETHINK initiative of ETH Zurich brings together experts from industry and academia to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence for design processes. ETH Prof. Gisbert Schneider and Dr. Matthias Zentgraf (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma) explain the benefits for drug design.

Inspire (competence centre for technology transfer) and RUAG Space have manufactured 3D printed structures for satellites. Find out more about this pioneering project in the video.

The demand for transmission capacity in telecommunication is increasing exponentially. Installing more optical fibres is one possibility to meet the demand. Prof. Lukas Novotny and Shawn Divitt from the Photonics Laboratory present a new, complementary possibility.