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Mid-infrared imaging observations of PDS 70 b, an exoplanet that is still in the process of formation, provide unique insight into its atmospheric properties and the mechanisms by which planets emerge from a circumstellar disk of gas and dust.

Every year, the Association of Students at ETH Zurich (VSETH) honours on ETH Day lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching with the "Golden Owl". For courses in the Departments of Physics, the award goes this year to Günther Dissertori .

At the Department of Physics, we take on our responsibility to society. We would like to contribute a fair share in fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015 towards net-zero CO₂ emissions. On this path, we shall shape our research such that it can be conducted successfully and sustainably in the long run.

Two research projects with ETH Zurich involvement have been awarded one of the highly coveted ERC Synergy Grants, including a project of ETH physicist Klaus Ensslin and colleagues in France, Canada and Israel, who will work towards measuring entropy and other thermodynamic properties of correlated quantum states in mesoscopic systems.