Students

"It's doing research that I particularly like"

Marion Höhener, 19, has completed her training as a physics laboratory assistant at Empa this summer. She wants to make research her career and is already looking towards higher education.

"I wanted to do something concrete that I could be proud of"

After finishing high school, Rohat Sihyürek joined PSI as an apprentice polymechanic. There, the 20-year-old manufactured high-precision parts that are essential for Switzerland's largest research facilities.

"Communicating with a wider audience has taken me out of my bubble"

Trisha Stewart, 17, is one of around 170 young people doing an apprenticeship at ETH Zurich. She is currently involved in research into the immunology of yeast cells. The third-year biology laboratory assistant has also given online lectures on botany.

Scientific reasoning requires the irrationality of intuition

EPFL Summer Series: How science works. Science is based on coherent reasoning, while intuition follows a more disjointed path. But scientific research couldn’t succeed if scientists didn’t listen to their gut feelings every once in a while.

EPFL now has its own Hyperloop test track

Engineers at EPFL’s DESL lab, working in association with EPFL spin-off Swisspod, have built a Hyperloop test track on the Lausanne campus. They will use the loop – a large vacuum tube for ultra-high-speed travel – to test a linear induction motor. The research is being funded by an Innosuisse grant.

Master’s students closely involved in research

Each year at Eawag, around 160 Master’s and Bachelor’s students are supervised and often directly involved in research projects. Again and again, this collaboration – as well as Eawag’s flat hierarchies and interdisciplinary culture – leads to outstanding Master’s theses.

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