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Machine learning is a hot topic in almost every field and is also becoming increasingly important at D-CHAB. But how can expertise be built up in a discipline that is developing too quickly for textbooks and is constantly presenting new challenges for specific disciplines? Doctoral students at D-CHAB focus on exchanging experiences and have created a special student training format called “Data & Machine Learning (ML) lunch”. We spoke to the organizer Julian Götz.

In recent centuries, ETH researchers were, like many other scientists worldwide, avid collectors overseas, including Prof. Carl Hartwich whose objects are displayed in the showcases at D-CHAB. For the next 12 months some of his exhibits will move to ETH main building: The exhibition “Colonial Traces – Collections in Context”, opening today in the extract, explores the past of objects from different ETH collections and sheds light on the connection between natural sciences and colonialism.

Researchers led by Wendelin Stark are using iron to store hydrogen safely and for long periods. In the future, this technology could be used for seasonal energy storage.

Scientists around the world can now go full throttle in their research into chemical plastics recycling. Scientists led by Javier Pérez Ramìrez have laid important foundations for this by showing that it’s all about the stirring.

Four researchers from ETH Zurich have successfully applied for Consolidator Grants funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, among them Alexander Barnes, Professor of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy, and Chih-Jen Shih, Professor of Technical Chemistry. Both want to use the grant to push ahead with their research projects in the fields of high-field NMR and LED technology.