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Switzerland’s largest science festival is back from 22 to 30 August 2026 with the theme "How we create knowledge". Find out where to meet our researchers and discover their work.

An interview with D-PHYS alumna Dr Viola Vogler-Neuling, who leads the Bioinspired Photonics Unit within the Soft Matter Physics Group at the Adolphe Merkle Institute, a pole of the University of Fribourg.

Quantum computers still face limits when it comes to storing information. Researchers at ETH Zurich are now turning to mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic memory. Their new vibrating memory can store significantly more information in a smaller volume. Combined with a suitable computer architecture, it also enables the efficient solution of complex computational problems.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that uses a single ion to detect electromagnetic fields above a surface and to create a three-dimensional map of them. In the future, this approach can be used to improve chips for quantum computers and quantum sensors.

ETH Zurich and its researchers are among some of the biggest winners of this year’s ERC Advanced Grants: with 12 researchers having been awarded this prestigious EU funding, a total of 31.5 million euros is coming to ETH. 

Three new assistant professors speak about their research projects and their successful ERC Starting Grant applications.

Just graduated and ready for the next step: the graduates of the physics degree programmes at ETH Zurich stand at the beginning of a new chapter in their lives – and face the challenges of a world that is not always easy to understand.

A research team in the Laboratory for Solid State Physics showed that a hybrid quantum computing architecture consisting of a transmon qubit and a bulk acoustic wave resonator can perform key two-qubit gates and quantum algorithms.