D-CHAB News

Maksym Kovalenko and his team, affiliated with both ETH Zurich and Empa, have developed a new image sensor made of perovskite. This semiconductor material enables better colour reproduction and fewer image artefacts with less light. Perovskite sensors are also particularly well suited for machine vision.

Victor Mougel, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, is appointed as Associate Professor of Bioinorganic and Bioinspired Chemistry in the D-CHAB. Dr. Christina Ruob, currently Managing Director of medinform AG and Pharmacist at ApoDoc, Zurich, is appointed as Professor of Practice in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences.

As Head of the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center, Science Communication and, most recently, Public Relations of the D-CHAB, Dr. Oliver Renn will retire as of June 1, 2025. With outstanding commitment and expertise, he played a key role in shaping information literacy at ETH Zurich and transformed the Information Center from a traditional library into a modern, multifaceted competence center for scientific information.

Dominik Bögli and Maylin Blunier, students of Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences and Biology, are eager to satisfy their thirst for knowledge both in the lecture halls and beyond. In the newly established Life Science Lab of the ETH Student Project House, they are cultivating special fungi that not only taste good but also contain neuroprotective natural compounds. The first products of their project can now be ordered on their website. 

PSI/ETH spin-off Araris Biotech AG, led by D-CHAB and ETH alumni, is being acquired by the multinational pharmaceutical company Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The total value of the deal comes to USD 1.14 billion.The scientific foundations for the company have been led in the group of professor and co-founder Roger Schibli (D-CHAB) at PSI.