2023

Cornelius Senn is an Electrical engineer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering and has been at ETH for 38 years. In the interview he tells Silvio Bonaccio why he doesn’t want to go to Mars and why his guests have to cook for themselves.

With its highly qualified graduates, cutting-edge research and knowledge transfer, ETH Zurich exists to serve Swiss society. The university demonstrated this once again in 2023. ETH News looks back at an eventful year.

Special opening times and operating hours apply at ETH Zurich around the holidays.

D-BAUG Professor Catherine De Wolf has been named one of MIT Technology Review's prestigious "35 Innovators Under 35" for 2023 in the field of artificial intelligence. The global list recognizes her outstanding contributions in using AI to reduce emissions and material waste in the construction industry. Earlier this year, Catherine won the European version of the award.

Snow measurement has never been so fast and accurate: ETH Zurich researchers led by Professor Konrad Schindler have developed an artificial intelligence capable of determining snow depth across Switzerland using satellite images.

The call for proposal of the Humanitarian Action Challenges is now open. It supports collaborative research with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to develop solutions for humanitarian action.

At its meeting of 6 and 7 December 2023 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed several professors, including Professor Eva Heinen for D-BAUG. She is the new Professor of Transport and Mobility Planning and succeeds Professor Kay Axhausen, who will retire in January 2024.

How can the construction industry improve its carbon footprint to net zero by 2050? What contributions can digital solutions make? These questions are central to the new lighthouse project of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich. The aim is to develop a spatial computing platform to accelerate the transition for a more efficient and environmentally friendly construction industry. The interdisciplinary project is funded by the Albert Lück Foundation.

What happens when cities gear their road space primarily to the needs of cyclists and e-bikers? On a new popular-science website, ETH researchers from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering use examples from the city of Zurich to show what such an “E-Bike City” could one day look like.

Three students from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering have been awarded a scholarship from the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP). The full scholarship enables them to concentrate fully on their studies and realise their full potential. Congratulations!