2023

The joint Executive MBA offered by ETH Zurich and the University of St.Gallen, emba X, has received its first award for Innovation in Higher Education at MERIT Summit & Awards in Paris.

Adriano Rutz, a Postdoc at ETH Zurich, wins the first National Prize for Open Research Data (ORD) for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research.

For the very first time a Swiss team, RACKlette team of ETH Zurich, emerged as the Overall Winner of the Computer Cluster Competition at the international Supercomputing Conference (SC23). The team competed with other international teams at SC23 in Denver, CO, to solve demanding computational problems.

Victor Mougel, Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Ruzicka Prize 2023 for his pioneering work on redox properties and catalytic applications of synthetic Iron-Sulfur Clusters.

The United Nations has launched a global AI Advisory Body to work on risks, opportunities and international governance of the technology. Professor Andreas Krause (D-INFK), head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group and Chair of the ETH AI Center, is amongst the appointed experts. Congratulations!