Prof. Yannis Deligianiakis and Dr. Georgios Sotiriou from Prof. Pratsinis’ team won a "TechConnect2013 Innovation Award" at the "Nanotech2013" in Washington DC, USA.

Paper | Conference | Institute of Process Engineering | Particle Technology Laboratory | Prof. Sotiris E. Pratsinis | Prof. Yannis Deligianiakis | Dr. Georgios Sotiriou

Ivo Leibacher, Doctoral candidate with Prof. Jürg Dual, received an Honorable Mention for the R. W. B. Stephens Prize at the International Congress on Ultrasonics in Singapore.

More (German) | Center of Mechanics | Prof. Jürg Dual | Ivo Leibacher

Technical appliances end up in the garbage because individual components within them are defect - and replacing these is either too time-consuming or not possible.  The suspicion exists that many producers base their calculations on a short life expectancy for their appliances.

More (German) | Chair in Product Development and Engineering | Prof. Mirko Meboldt

When the retina’s supply of blood and oxygen runs low, physicians have to react quickly to preserve a patient’s eyesight. But up until now there have been no methods sensitive enough to measure how well the eye is oxygenated. A microrobot invented by ETH researchers may come to the rescue.

ETH Life Article | Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems | Multi-Scale Robotics Laboratory | Prof. Bradley Nelson

On Thursday, Prof. Nobuhide Kasagi from the University of Tokyo will give the Aurel Stodola Lecture.

He is an engineering scientist, has developed the basic principles for a whole series of energy efficient applications in the transport, energy and industrial sectors as a result of his research into turbulent currents and the heat they transfer.

ETH Life Article (German) | Aurel Stodola Lecture | Invitation