The ETH Board appointed 15 new professors at ETH Zurich, among them Dr. Dirk Mohr (*1976) as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computational Modelling of Materials in Manufacturing and Dr. Christopher Onder (*1961) as Adjunct Professor.

Under the „TOP 100 Swiss Startups 2014“, the spin-off company Climeworks from Prof. Aldo Steinfeld’s group was recognized as one of the top 10.   Audi is interested in the research of Climeworks and has a cooperation with them.

Izabela Kuder, doctoral student in Prof. Paolo Ermannis group, was awarded with the prize for the Best Student Paper Competition at the ASME Conference 2014 for her contribution entitled “Static Design of a Selective Compliance Morphing Wing Profile Based on Integrated Variable Stiffness Bi-Stable Components”.

Dr. Jonathan Scheffe, research associate in the group of Prof. Steinfeld, was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, USA as of 1 September 2014.

Dr. Thomas Vetter, former doctoral student with Prof. Marco Mazzotti, has been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Manchester as of 1 September 2014.