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The Research Collection will be migrated to a new software version. As part of this process, certain functions will be temporarily unavailable from 8.00 a.m. on 4 August until the morning of 12 August.?

Walter Kaufmann, Professor of Structural Engineering (Concrete Structures and Bridge Design) at ETH Zurich, has been designated a fib Fellow and was awarded the fib Medal of Merit. The medal?recognises his outstanding contributions to structural concrete and the fib ¨C the International Federation for Structural Concrete.?Congratulations!

The ETH Executive Board has approved two regulations that aim to better support ETH members who found companies, in particular increasing transparency in what ETH offers founders and their companies, what ETH expects, and what processes must be followed. Vanessa Wood, Frank Floessel and Beat Weibel explain the changes in an interview.

The grant will allow Degen and his group in the Department of Physics to develop a photonic integrated circuit for single-photon-emitter excitation and detection, with future commercial use in optical quantum sensing and communication.

On 10 September 2025, researchers, data scientists and practitioners from all over Switzerland will meet to explore the potential and challenges of Open Academic Data.

¡®On to new horizons¡¯ ¨C these were the words used to celebrate and bid farewell to the young professionals at the ETH Zurich apprenticeship graduation ceremony on 10 July 2025. The pioneering motto conveys courage and confidence for the diverse prospects of their professional future.

Paolo Arosio, professor at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop a technology for?the rapid, specific, and scalable isolation of vesicles and molecules from biofluids with applications in diagnostics and disease monitoring as well as drug manufacturing.

On Friday, 4 July 2025, the former machine hall on ETH Zurich's 365ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø_365ÌåÓý±¸Óá¾ÊÖ»úÔÚÏß¡¿ Zentrum opened its doors for the RobotX Innovation Day. This annual event brought together researchers, entrepreneurs, and robotics enthusiasts to explore the current state of robotics research.

At the beginning of the year, the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology moved to the H?nggerberg campus. The institute is now also putting a new greenhouse with a laboratory area into operation for its plant research on the campus.

The latest construction projects at ETH Zurich consistently meet high sustainability standards. For example, the BSS in Basel recently became the first laboratory building in Switzerland to receive the DGNB Gold certificate.