Internal News

The Department Day on June 5 featured a series of informative presentations, including insights into the upcoming change in departmental leadership as well as current research highlights, and concluded—despite the somewhat cool weather—with the traditional barbecue.

The south wing of the HPT building has been renovated and converted. It is now available to the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology with modern laboratories. In addition, the Mechanical Workshop has moved into the converted workshop wing. Both wings were inaugurated and handed over to their users on Tuesday.

The conversion of listed building HPT has been completed, and all work areas of the mechanical workshop are now housed in a single building. This opens new possibilities for the workshop's activities, but it required machines weighing several tons to be moved.

A traditional social event gathered the new apprentices of the D-PHYS vocational training workshops.

The topics of this year's D-PHYS Day ranged from the latest news from departmental services and facilities to exoplanet and quantum information research that's carried out in the department.

This year, the Wolfgang Pauli Lectures will highlight the CRISPR technology, its origins and its current applications in research and medicine. The speaker is Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry.

The CERN international research centre near Geneva explores the tiniest fragments of the universe. Scientists from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and PSI are involved in this. An exhibition, guided tours and a series of lectures at ETH aim to provide a broader public with an understanding of the experiments at the world’s largest particle accelerator.

Retiring Vice Rectors Andreas Vaterlaus and Lorenz Hurni explain in an interview the trends they are observing and where in their view changes are needed.

This year's D-PHYS Day took place on 7 June 2023. It featured updates from the Head of the Department and insights into the new PPLUS physics practicals. The traditional barbecue offered the opportunity for more informal conversations.