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ETH Alumnus Julian Heeb developed with some friends ginto, an app for accessibility for people with a disability that rates restaurants, bars and shops. This app recently won a digital and an innovation award.

Jeremy Coulson and Paul Beuchat, both doctoral students at the Automatic Control Laboratory, have received two awards recently: ECC19 Best Student Paper Award (Jeremy Coulson) and IFAC ACE 2019 Young Author Prize (Paul Beuchat).

The ETH Board has appointed Fisher Yu, currently a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Vision as of December 2020.

Prof. Florian Dörfler, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, has been appointed as Associate Professor of Complex Systems Control by the ETH Board.

Pascal Leuchtmann, lecturer at the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, talks in a recent interview about advantages and disadvantages of 5G.

Prof. Colombo Bolognesi, leader of the Millimeter-Wave Electronics Laboratory (MWE) group, explains in our new portrait series his research focus, what made him interested in ultrahigh-speed compound semiconductor transistors and how his "super-low-noise" transistors play a crucial role in space exploration by the European Space Agency (ESA).  

A team of the Empa Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, headed by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, achieves an unprecedented efficiency of 20.8% for flexible thin-film solar cells - breaking their own record.

Last Friday, the D-ITET Diversity & Inclusion International Food Bazaar took place at the ETZ foyer and terrace. Twenty D-ITET members from all over the world showed their cooking talents and introduced the more than sixty guests to their favourite dishes.