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Dr. Balz Maag, researcher at the Computer Engineering Group (TEC), received the Best Innovation Paper award at this year's International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2019) in Leicester, UK.  

In a video interview on the occasion of the Zurich Science Days "Scientifca 19" Christian Schaffner, director of the Energy Science Center (ESC), explains the challenges of climate-neutral energy supply and why Switzerland currently cannot do without electricity imports.

For his Master’s thesis Christopher Timperio developed a high-speed linear induction motor, supervised by Jasmin Smajic from the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF). With Smajic’s advice, Swissloop’s Nicolas Marchal and Samuel Sadok built upon Christopher’s work and designed a new motor for the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition in LA. Not only did the team achieve second place in the overall competition, the impressive new motor design also won them an innovation award from Elon Musk.

Marcel Schuck, former doctoral student at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory, was awarded an ETH Pioneer Fellowship for his project "No-Touch Robotics", which aims at developing a robotic gripper system that can handle and manipulate highly fragile objects without touching them.

For their contribution "PULP-DroNet: Open Source and Open Hardware Artificial Intelligence for Fully Autonomous Navigation on Nano-UAVs" a team consisting of Daniele Palossi, Francesco Conti, Davide Rossi and Luca Benini received a Best Design award at the Design Contest held at the International Symposium on Low power Electronics and Design.   

Til Schlotter, doctoral student at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (LBB) has won the poster award in the category "Single Molecule Biophysics" at the European Biophysics Conference in Madrid.