ETH Podcast

ETH Podcast is going on a creative break and will reappear with a new concept next year.

George Szpiro is an Israeli-Swiss applied mathematician and journalist who made a name for himself as the author of popular mathematical essays and books.

Zurich Exhalomics – a team working on the future of diagnostics, where illnesses can be diagnosed using no more than a breath sample.

Anette Freytag, a Landscape Historian currently at Rutgers University and formerly with ETH Zurich, explains why landscape architecture is not only a discipline, but an attitude and a way of life.

The creaking of the shimmering Morteratsch Glacier, the rumbling of ash-coloured dams, and the steady sloshing of water in grey-blue Zurich reservoirs...

Felix Seidel is a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Caltech. He shares with us how ETH Zurich influenced him, and continues to be important for him today.

Gisbert Schneider – winner of the Ernst Schering Price 2022 – worked in various places before his professional path led him to ETH, where he now heads the Singapore-ETH Centre.

Scientists often are either in the lab or at their desks - researching, thinking, writing, reading, and analysing discoveries. What happens if their expertise aligns with current affairs in the media?

Climate change hasn’t been hitting the headlines quite as much in recent months – but that’s not because the situation has improved.

Diese Behauptung wird immer wieder als Gegenargument zu klimapolitischen Ambitionen genannt.

Bis 2050 soll die Schweiz klimaneutral werden. Das heisst: Ausbau nachhaltiger Energieversorgung statt fossiler Energieträger und Kernenergie.

Immer mehr Elektroautos flitzen durch unsere Strassen. Umweltfreundlicher sind die, klar! Klar?

Teure Rohstoffpreise wegen des Ukrainekriegs und der steigende Energieverbrauch aufgrund neuer digitaler Technologien wie Blockchain schüren die Angst vor Strom-Engpässen oder gar flächendeckenden Ausfällen.

It was when Margherita Fontana left ETH Zurich that she realized it had given her a unique value proposition, which was solid baggage to take with her to the corporate world.

Before it reaches our plates, the food we eat usually has travelled a long way.

Philippe Kahn, a serial technology innovator, and entrepreneur, who studied mathematics at ETH Zurich, is credited with creating the first camera phone solution.

Switzerland's former ambassador to the US Martin Dahinden made many exciting encounters during his diplomatic career, and ETH Zurich played a key role throughout.

Horizon Europe is the European Union’s multi-billion-euro research programme. Due to political differences, Switzerland is now largely excluded from this programme.

“If more people knew about engineering, they would find their passion in it, because you can really do a lot… I mean, you can change the world.”

On International Women’s Day, the ETH podcast has a close look at facts and figures regarding gender equality at ETH.

Jennifer’s story is one of coming full circle. Originally from Detroit and having recently moved back, Jennifer explains how her serendipitous path and global living experiences built on each other.

Usually, failure is something shameful, or at least it used to be. Nowadays, people rather talk about how crucial failure is for success.

ETH Zurich was not Jeannine's first choice for a place of study, but she made the switch because she was looking for more opportunities to apply her creative side.

ETH’s Student Project House is a dream come true for young inventors.

The ETH is the alma mater of quite a few Nobel Prize Laureates, the most prominent of whom is probably Albert Einstein.

Over 60 years ago, a skiing expedition in Soviet Russia started as an adventure and ended in a tragedy.

SKINTEGRITY.CH is a transdisciplinary consortium for the largest organ of humans, the skin.

Martin Ackermann steps down as head of the Swiss National Covid-19 science task force. Tanja Stadler succeeds him in this responsible position.

Together with his professor Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz received the Physics Nobel Prize for this discovery.

While Domenico Giardini, Professor of Seismology and Geodynamics, already has his hands on Mars, Adrian Glauser, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, has to be patient.

For Claude Nicollier, the dream of flying to space came true four times. Judit Szulágyi - a professor in computational astrophysics at the ETH- has never left the earth's atmosphere so far.

Helga Nowotny is an internationally recognised researcher on Social Studies of Science. Eric Burns just finished his Ph.D. at ETH and is pursuing a career in Switzerland.

Uncertainty is something that makes people uncomfortable. At the same time, it is the only chance for learning.

ETH senior lecturer Myriam Dunn Cavelty never imagined that cybersecurity would evolve from a niche subject to a big thing.

The threat of Climate Change is similar to the Corona Pandemic.

This past year has been strange and strenuous. Patience and endurance are what all of us need on many levels.

Sometimes it only takes a few seconds to separate life into a before and an after.

At the moment, nothing seems to be the way it was.

Poverty has many faces. The question of affordable nutrition, water, housing, and energy are just some factors poor people face in their everyday life.

ETH computer scientists Julia Vogt and Fanny Yang work in the field of Machine Learning and Medicine.

The coronavirus pandemic forced ETH Zurich to suspend almost all its experimental research in mid-March.

Various contact-tracing apps are currently being developed worldwide to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tanja Stadler has been in the Swiss media quite a lot lately as she knows how to interpret data regarding the spread of the virus.

The current situation presents an enormous challenge for economists like Jan-Egbert Sturm.

Singapore is situated in Southeast Asia and has a strong connection to China. Nevertheless, the coronavirus epidemic in Singapore has been much weaker than in Europe so far.

For most people, staying at home right now means a lot of sitting and staring at screens.

Petra Schmid is currently working from home, where she is planning a new study on how feedback affects the motivation and focus of people working remotely.

Andreas Wallraff is currently running the Quantum Device Lab from home.

Viola Vogel, Professor at the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, talks about how soap, ginger, rinsing our mouths, and gargling can make us more resistant to viruses.

In response to these exceptional times, the monthly ETH Podcast will appear as a series of short items dealing with various aspects of the novel form of coronavirus,

Samuel Kunz has quadriplegia and needs a wheelchair to get about. Right now he’s preparing to take part in the CYBATHLON 2020.

He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso, Professor at the MIT Media Lab in Media Arts and Sciences.

Renana and Roi Poranne are both senior scientists at ETH Zurich: Renana in Chemistry, Roi, in Computer Sciences. But they are not only committed researchers, they are also parents.

As of this semester, it is possible to do a master’s degree in Quantum Engineering at ETH Zürich. What actually is Quantum Engineering?

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zürich and one of the leading researchers in her field was awarded some of the most prestigious prizes for her pioneering work in the area of multiferroics.

“How Talent Thrives” is a subject that university, as well as industry, is interested in.

The pace of technological progress is rapid. Artificial intelligence and machine learning make us look at human intelligence in a new light.

What do grasshoppers, crickets and mealworms taste like?

ETH researcher Grace Crain is hoping to develop an ecosystem that could provide food, drinking water and clean air to astronauts on a space station.

Computer scientist Hoda Heidari and Elliott Ash, Professor for Law, Economics, and Data Science, talk about the huge digital footprint that we leave behind us on a daily basis. They also discuss how big data is changing the world and our perceptions, why governments are still lagging behind this transformation and how algorithms can learn and become fairer in the process.

Many small, local steps may lead more effectively to peace than big dreams of a perfect state.

Why ETH Zurich, and not another university?

Last November, news from China shook the research community. Scientist, He Jiankui claimed he had edited the genomes of twin girls with the CRISPR/Cas technology.

The ETH spin-off ANYbotics offers a very special product: a dog-like robot that goes by the name of ANYmal.

Haelixa is a young ETH spin-off that aims to commercialise robust DNA-based tracers for tracking fluids and solids.

Would you be willing to spend four days and nights developing a project with strangers?

In the first episode of the new ETH podcast, we travel to Los Angeles with the students from Swissloop to the third Hyperloop Pod Competition.

On Thursday, 6 December 2018, we will start with our new podcast. The first four episodes deal with different aspects of entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. We'll get to know the students of the Swissloop project who take part in Elon Musk's Hyperloop competition, hear about the Incube Challenge organised by the ETH Entrepreneurclub, talk to Michela Puddu, co-founder of the ETH spin-off Haelixa, who is currently getting investors on board and find out more about the tasks of ANYmal, a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments. Listen in!