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A combined team consisting of the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory and Infineon Technologies received a Best Paper Award for their paper „Next Generation GaN-​​based Architectures: From 240W USB-​​C Adapters to 11kW EV On-​Board Chargers with Ultra-​​high Power Density and Wide Output Voltage Range“ at PCIM 2022. 

The ETH board has appointed Dr. Mickaël Perrin, currently Research Scientist and Deputy Group Leader at Empa, as Assistant Professor of Low-​dimensional Quantum Electronics.

The flagship project F1TENTH of the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) pursues the goal to participate in the F1TENTH race, one of the top competitions in the world on autonomous race driving. The team of 9 students aim to complete different race tracks as quickly as possible with a self-driving racing car on a scale of 1:10.

Marco Stampanoni, researcher at PSI and Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, his colleague Dr. Zhentian Wang and their team have been nominated for this year’s European Inventor Award. The two scientists have been conducting research for more than ten years, in the pursuit of improved diagnostic methods for the early detection of breast cancer. The nomination for this prestigious award is in recognition of their pioneering work. The winners will be announced on 21 June 2022.

Neha Nain, doctoral student at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory, received the Ernst-Blickle Graduate Award 2021 for her outstanding Master's thesis.

During the lockdown Jeremy Coulson, Paul Beuchat and Prof. John Lygeros from the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) developed the course "Quad-​Rotors: Control and Estimation" for Bachelor’s students at D-ITET. Their project was nominated as one of three KITE Award finalists as a particularly innovative teaching initiative. Congratulations!