Interview
“Get up and running quickly, but with extreme caution”
Politics
ETH Zurich
The ETH Executive Board has passed a three-stage plan for resuming normal operations in the areas of research, teaching and administration by the end of 2020. It is important that every step of the process follows the government’s guidance, ETH President Joël Mesot emphasises. The health and well-being of staff and students continue to be the top priority.
Interview on World Water Day on 22 March 2020
Research
Eawag
The theme to this year’s UNESCO World Water Day is “Water and Climate Change”. Environmental scientist Martin Schmid, who is Head of the Eawag Group Applied System Analysis in the Surface Waters Department, talks about how climate change is impacting on waterbodies in Switzerland.
“Containing the virus must come before everything else”
Teaching
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich is switching to emergency operations. In this interview, ETH President Joël Mesot explains what this means for research, teaching and work.
"Electric is already the right choice today"
Politics
PSI
An interview on automotive power systems with Christian Bauer, a scientist at PSI's Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis who specialises in life cycle and sustainability analyses.
“We need to buy time for a vaccine against the coronavirus”
Research
EPFL
After his extensive lecture on the current coronavirus outbreak, we asked EPFL Professor Marcel Salathé, an expert in digital epidemiology, a few follow-up questions.
Simulation: The third pillar of science
Research
PSI
PSI researchers simulate and model large-scale research facilities as well as experiments, for example, in the materials and biological sciences. Andreas Adelmann, head of PSI's Laboratory for Scientific Computing and Modelling, explains how they do it.
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