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ERC Starting Grants 2015
The European Research Council announced today that three members of the ETH WPF will receive an ERC starting grant: Vanessa Wood, Professor of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, for her project “Development of Quantitative Metrologies to Guide Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing”, and Laura Nyström, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, for her project “Soluble dietary…
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ERC Advanced Grant Awarded to Aleksandra Radenovic
Congratulations to Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic who has been awarded a highly competitive Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). read more here
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4th EWORA Webinar – Excellence & Gender
The 4th EWORA Webinar “Excellence and Gender: In what way is the construction of excellence linked to gender?“will be held on 18 October 2021 (14:00 – 15:30 CET). The meeting will be chaired by Prof. Birgit Riegraf, President of Paderborn University, Germany, and Board Member of EWORA. PROGRAM Further information and RSVP in this link
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Prof. Nicola Spaldin elected as a member of the ERC Science Council
The European Commission has elected Professor Nicola Spaldin (Chair of Materials Theory, ETH Zürich) as a member of the ERC Science Council. Prof. Spaldin has herself been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant under the 7th Research Framework Programme (2007-2013). Under Horizon 2020 (20214-2020), she is one of the co-Principal investigators in the ERC Synergy Grant “Hero”,…
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Members
Here is a complete list of all current WPF members, including professors emeritae. Our members are listed by family name. A search for an individual member can be conducted by name or by Department of ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne.
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Prof. Carmela Troncoso wins award on data privacy engineering
Congratgulations to Professor Carmela Troncoso and her all-women Team! The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 “privacy protection” prize to a European research team. The prize was awarded during the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article…
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Karen Scrivener selected by UN Secretary-General to be Representative in 10-Member Group for Sustainable Development Goals
Congratulations to Prof. Karen Scrivener for being selected by the United Nations Secretary-General for the Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (10-Member Group). As an internationally recognized engineering expert in developing environmentally friendly building materials from decades…
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+ 4% female Consolidator Grantees in 2014
The European Research Council published the figures about the donated Consolidator Grants in 2014. The overall rate of grantees was 15% out of all applicants. The share of female Consolidator Grantees was 28% which is an increase of 4% compared to the previous year. Read more… Website of Grant Access of ETH Zurich and University…
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SNSF Starting Grant
Jennifer Rupp, SNSF Professor for Electrochemical Materials, received the SNSF Starting Grant for the Project “Beyond von-Neuman computing – Materials Functionalization and Integration of Three-dimensionally stacked Multiterminal Memristive Oxides Replacing Existing Transistors for Neuromorphic Computing”.
