Inaugural and farewell lectures
Since its foundation, D-BAUG has welcomed and bid farewell to numerous professors and private lecturers. The recordings of the public inaugural and farewell lectures can be found in the overview below.
Inaugural Lecture 19 December 2023
Professor Johan Gaume
Snow and Avalanche Mechanics: Between Solid and Fluid
Farewell Lecture 07 December 2023
Professor Kay Axhausen
Visions and dilemmas
Farewell Lecture 10 October 2022
Professor Markus Rothacher
Global Navigation Satellite Systems: the surprising wealth of applications
Inaugural Lecture 22 March 2022
Professor Catherine De Wolf
«This is not a pipe - How digital motivation can help circular construction»
Inaugural Lecture 04 October 2021
Professor Benedikt Soja
Machine Learning – a New Chapter in Geodetic Earth Observation
Inaugural Lecture 04 October 2021
Professor David Kaufmann
Densification: Acceptance and socio-economic effects of urban development
Inaugural Lecture 10 October 2021
Professor Andreas Taras
Use less, build more: technologies for the future of steel construction
Introductory Lecture 25 February 2019
Professor Olga Fink
Inaugural Lecture 23 September 2019
Professor Michalis Vassiliou
Rocking, chaos, and seismic testing of 3D printed small scale models
Inaugural Lecture 23 September 2019
Professor David Kammer
Inaugural Lecture 28 March 2018
Professor Daniel Hall
The Global Construction Industry: Reorganizing Today for Innovation Tomorrow
Inaugural Lecture 28 March 2018
Professor Francesco Corman
Inaugural Lecture 16 May 2017
Professor Daniel Farinotti
The past, the present, and the future: Why do we need glaciology at all
Inaugural Lecture 29 November 2016
Professor Ioannis Anastasopoulos
Design of foundation–structure systems against large tectonic deformation
Inaugural Lecture 21 Oktober 2015
Professor Roman Stocker
Of Fluid Flow and Microbes: Biological Transport in the Environment
Introductory Lecture 29 April 2014
Professor Markus Holzner
Turbulent interfaces - challenges in environmental hydromechanics
Farewell Lecture 18 November 2014
Professor Wolfgang Kinzelbach
Farewell Lecture 24 April 2013
Professor Hilmar Ingensand
Inaugural Lecture 06 May 2013
Professor Andreas Wieser
Rockfall, Burj and Laser Scanning: Changes in Engineering Geodesy
Inaugural Lecture 11 November 2013
Professor Max Maurer
Is our use of water sustainable? Urban water management in transition
Inaugural Lecture 19 November 2013
Professor Guillaume Habert
Inaugural Lecture 14 May 2012
Professor Martin Raubal
What is geoinformation for? Decision support for mobile people
Inaugural Lecture 24 February 2011
Professor Eleni Chatzi
Structural Health Monitoring - From Theory to Implementation
Inaugural Lecture 28 February 2011
Professor Robert J. Flatt
Inaugural Lecture 30 March 2011
Professor Jing Wang
Aerosol Technology in Nanomaterial Environmental, Health and Safety Studies
Inaugural Lecture 13 April 2011
Professor Konrad Schindler
Inaugural Lecture 10 May 2010
Professor Eberhard Morgenroth
Inaugural Lecture 25 October 2010
Professor Robert Boes
Hydraulic engineering in the field of tension between theory and practice
Inaugural Lecture 30 November 2010
Professor Irena Hajnsek
The relevance of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for the environment
Farewell Lecture 12 May 2009
Professor Hans-Rudolf Schalcher
Inaugural Lecture 28 October 2009
Professor Markus Rothacher
GPS/GALILEO - more than navigation: monitoring the Earth system from space
Inaugural Lecture 09 December 2009
Professor Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Landscape and environment - Our capital for spatial development
Farewell Lecture 21 May 2008
Professor Erwin Minor
High velocity flows: Problems and approaches to solutions. 10 years later.
Farewell Lecture 27 October 2008
Professor Alessandro Carosio
Does Switzerland need ETH - Does ETH need Switzerland? Thoughts of a geomatics engineer
Inaugural Lecture 04 April 2007
Professor Holger Wallbaum
The World Building: From Utopia to Reality of Sustainable Construction
Inaugural Lecture 23 October 2006
Professor Stefanie Hellweg
From dirty good to protected good: perspectives for proactive environmental protection
Farewell Lecture 25 January 2005
Professor Edoardo Anderheggen
Inaugural Lecture 01 June 2005
Professor Ulrich Weidmann
Change and Values: Public Transportation in the 21st Century
Farewell Lecture 27 June 2000
Professor Hugo Bachmann
Reinforced concrete, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering - a few contradictions
