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In its 50th anniversary year, the Swiss Telecommunications Association, asut (https://asut.ch), awarded the Swiss Telecommunications Prize for the second time. The award went to Dr. Gregor Dürrenberger, who was honored for his commitment to the development of mobile communication technologies.

At the end of this semester, the best assistants were awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award FS 2024. The winners are Angelo Nujic (Analysis II) and Philipp Schilk (Embedded Systems).

A few years ago, Apple took over two start-ups that had their origins at Luc van Gool's Computer Vision Lab. In an interview with SRF, the head of the Computer Vision Lab talks about the advantages and disadvantages of US dominance in the tech sector.

Andreas Horat, doctoral student at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory headed by Prof. Johann Kolar, received the Young Researcher Award for his paper “Highly-Compact Bearingless Axial-Flux Motor for a Pediatric Implantable Fontan Blood Pump” at PCIM 2024.

A consortium comprising Maksym Kovalenko from Empa's Thin Films and Photovoltaics laboratory, Ivan Shorubalko from Empa's Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces laboratory, as well as Taekwang Jang, head of the Energy-​Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems Group, and Sergii Yakunin (Kovalenko Lab, D-CHAB), is working on an image sensor made of perovskite capable of capturing considerably more light than its silicon counterpart.