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The first BRIDGE Proof of Concept call of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) attracted 101 proposals, submitted by young researchers from across Switzerland. Eleven ideas have now been funded, including the two projects of ETH physicists Mariia Timofeeva and Florian Emaury.

20 high-school students with a passion for physics had a chance to experience modern research in two large laboratory complexes of the Department of Physics. In the Laboratory for Solid State Physics, they visted the Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials group, and in the Institute for Particle Physics the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics.

ETH researchers have received eight of the coveted Advanced Grants in the European Research Council's (ERC) latest call for proposals, among them physicist Tilman Esslinger, who has been awarded such a grant already for the second time.

The ESA BIC Switzerland programme is starting its second round with seven additional start-ups. Amongst others, the jury was won over by the ETH spin-off "IRsweep". Using a spectrometer that utilises infra-red laser radiation, the startup wants to make environmental analysis from space more precise.

The ETH Board appointed three new professors and awarded the title of Professor to five recipients upon application of ETH President Lino Guzzella. Among them are Christian Degen, new Associate Professor of Spin Physics, and Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder and Vadim Geshkenbein, new Adjunct Professors at the Departement of Physics.