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What's at stake in high-energy particle physics

Photo of the open CMS detector at CERN

As particle physicists envision the future of their discipline, one point is clear: there's much potential for exploration and discovery beyond the Standard Model.

Golden Owl to Sascha Quanz

Sascha Quanz

Sascha Quanz was awarded the Golden Owl for his teaching activities in the Department of Physics. Every year, the ETH Zurich Student Association (VSETH) honours lecturers whose excellent teaching stands out with this award.

1832 devices tested for safe physics demonstrations

A man demonstrating a historical physics experiment

How the lecture experiments team in the Department of Physics prepared and organised the mandatory periodic equipment inspection with the help of an external company.

A dictionary for phonons

Artistic interpretation of the relation between chirality and spatial symmetries

Researchers at ETH Zurich have contributed to an overview article that establishes a common language for phonon research and defines precisely what kinds of angular momentum-carrying phonons can exist in solid-state materials.

Exoplanets are not water worlds

Illustration of a blue planet in space

There is much less water on the surfaces of distant planets outside our solar system than previously thought. These exoplanets do not have thick layers of water, as was often speculated. That’s the conclusion of an international study led by ETH Zurich. 

Open Call for NOMIS–ETH Postdoctoral Fellowships

The 2025 call for applications for the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Programme
within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life is open. Researchers
are invited to apply until 7 November 2025, at 17:00 Zurich local time.

ERC Starting Grants: success for ETH researchers

Nine researchers from ETH Zurich have just been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). This is a positive signal for Zurich as a research location.

The right algorithm

An interview with D-PHYS alumnus Ivan Ilak, Software Engineer at MaxWell Biosystems.

Breaking new ground: Single trapped ions to test the Standard Model

Sketch showing a patterned chip with four crossing laser beams that come out of the chip plane to meet above it, with two ions trapped where the beams meet

Diana Prado Lopes Aude Craik looks for hints of new physics with precision atomic measurements in a trapped-ion setup.

ERC Proof of Concept Grant awarded to Christian Degen

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

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