2023
ETH-Medals for Master's graduates
Madeleine Santos and Ali Ahmed Shaikhsulaiman were honoured with the ETH-Medal for their outstanding Master's theses. The prizes were awarded at this year's Master's degree graduation ceremony. Congratulations!
Master's degree graduation ceremony 2023
The Master's Graduation Ceremony of the Department of Earth Sciences took place on Friday, 1 December 2023. Congratulations to our successful graduates!
Nothing ruffles his feathers
André Blanchard will soon have been working at ETH Zurich for 48 years – longer than anyone else. What has kept him here all these years?
Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Programme (ESOP)
Yuhan Wang – Master's student in the Seismology and Wave Physics group – received an ESOP scholarship.
Understanding climate change in the oceans
Supported by an ETH scholarship, Janine Schmitter delves deep into questions about our Earth and its oceans in her Master‘s degree in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.
Fiber-optic recording of the Brienz rockslide
The rockslide that occured during the night from 15 to 16 June 2023 above the village of Brienz was one of the largest in the Swiss Alps in recent years, displacing more than 1 million cubic meters of material.
Luca Dal Zilio receives Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Luca Dal Zilio will be presented with the AGU Jason Morgan Early Career Award. The award is presented annually to an early career scientist for outstanding and significant contributions to tectonophysics through a combination of research, education, and outreach activities.
The Brienz Landslide
The Insel compartment of the Brienz landslide complex failed in the night of 15 June 2023 - one month after the village had been evacuated.
In Memoriam: Judith McKenzie
Judith A. McKenzie, Professor of Earth System Sciences at ETH Zurich from 1996 to 2007, passed away on 11 August 2023.