2023

At the beginning of 2024, the Institute for Theoretical Physics will welcome Professors Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Álvarez and Nicolò Defenu.

Klaus Ensslin received a Golden Owl award 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.

We spoke with Jonathan Home, our current Head of the Department, on becoming a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and about his career, motivations and goals.

A new study points to potentially unacknowledged biases that affect grants awarded by the European Research Council.

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers including members from the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics at ETH Zurich measured ammonia in the atmosphere of a cold brown dwarf, showing that the isotopic abundance of ammonia can be used to study how giant gas planets form.