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At the end of this semester, the best assistants were awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award FS 2025.

Rahel Herzog, now a doctoral student in the Advanced Mechatronics Systems Group, has received the Ernst Blickle Studienpreis 2024.

The SAFARI Research Group, headed by Prof. Onur Mutlu, has been awarded the Test of Time Award at the 55^th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.

Dr Jasmin Smajic, currently Senior Scientist at the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields and Lecturer at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the title "Professor". He is a leading scientist in the field of theoretical and computational electromagnetics.

Dr Timothée Proix, currently Research Group Leader at the University of Geneva, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience. He focuses on the neural bases of language in his research, which combines theoretical modelling, data-driven analysis and invasive neurophysiology in human beings. He will join the Institute of Neuroinformatics as of 1 August.

At the meeting on 21st and 22nd May 2025, the ETH Board appointed two female and four male professors at the request of ETH President Joël Mesot. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor" three times and the title of "Professor of Practice" twice.

By 2050, the aim is for Switzerland’s energy system to be decarbonised and no longer reliant on nuclear power. How this can be achieved and the costs of doing so are set out in a new report by a Swiss research consortium involving researchers from ETH Zurich, the universities of Geneva and Bern, EPFL, WSL, and ZHAW.

Giray Yağlıkçı from the SAFARI Research Group headed by Prof. Onur Mutlu received the DSN-2025 William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability.

Among 90 exceptional researchers, Prof. Ursula Keller has been awarded a “Foreign Fellowship” of the Royal Society. The expert in Ultrafast Laser Physics is the only scientist from Switzerland to receive this honour this year.