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Optica (formerly OSA), the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the science of light, awards Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize. Prof. Leuthold, head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), is honored for pioneering plasmonics based devices and in particular developing broadband modulators and detectors with highest bandwidths.

Klaas Prüssmann is professor of Bioimaging and the head of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT). In this interview, he speaks about his mission to generate images from inside the human body and how he came to ETH Zurich rather accidentally.

Dr. Antonio Di Maio has received an Ambizione grant from SNF for his research project "Efficient Distributed Intelligent Applications in Mobile-Network Dynamics (eDIAMOND)". He will start at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) on 1 September 2025.

ProTRR, the first principled in-DRAM mitigation against Rowhammer attacks, has been described in a paper published by Prof. Kaveh Razavi's COMSEC group. It has heavily influenced the design of follow-up work on secure mitigations in both academia and industry.

It is our pleasure to announce that the Editorial Board of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJPEL) has awarded the paper entitled “Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Fast and Accurate Inductor Modeling and Design” (authors: Dr. Thomas Guillod, Dr. Pantelis Papamanolis, Prof. em. Dr. Johann W. Kolar) with the First-place Prize Paper Award for 2023.

Two projects with contributions from the Power Systems Laboratory (PSL), headed by Prof. Gabriela Hug, have won the Watt d'Or Award 2025.

Prof. Onur Mutlu, head of the SAFARI Research Group, has received the IEEE Computer Society 2025 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for "seminal contributions to computer architecture research and practice, especially in memory systems".

In the Masoala Rainforest at Zoo Zurich, a state-of-the-art prototype developed by the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) is currently undergoing testing. This new device provides unprecedented and pivotal data for research on Goodman's mouse lemurs, one of the world's smallest lemur species.