Departures
Professor Gabriel Aeppli (*1956), presently Full Professor of Physics within the Department of Physics (twin professorship with EPFL), will retire on the finish of November 2026. Gabriel Aeppli joined ETH Zurich in 2013 and can also be the founding Head of the Photon Science Division on the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), the place he’s Deputy Director. In addition to educating quite a few college students, his achievements embrace the scientific commissioning of the Swiss Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) and contributing considerably to the upgraded Swiss Light Source (SLS) 2.0, with energy enhanced as much as 10,000-fold and to the Park Innovaare with the brand new PSI clear room. His analysis successes embrace taking X-ray tomograms of built-in circuits at a record-breaking decision. Gabriel Aeppli labored on the time-dependent construction of sunshine pulses from free electron lasers, which led to the primary X-ray frequency comb. These and comparable findings underlie the brand new SwissFELplus challenge, which goals to generate X-rays with adjustable wavelengths. Gabriel Aeppli has been a member of the Swiss Science Council since 2016.
Professor David Basin (*1961), presently Full Professor of Computer Science (Information Security) within the Department of Computer Science, is to retire on the finish of January 2027. He joined ETH Zurich in 2002. His analysis in shut cooperation with business led to groundbreaking advances within the ideas, strategies and instruments used for testing the safety of IT methods. He based a number of spin-offs and analysis initiatives within the know-how sector and registered seven patents. Among different honours, David Basin was awarded an honorary doctorate by Chalmers University of Technology for his excellent contributions to cybersecurity and the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography for growing the Tamarin Prover. He has held numerous positions at ETH Zurich, together with as Head (and Deputy Head) of Department and as a member of the Research Commission and the Doctoral Commission; he additionally headed the Institute of Information Security for a few years. He presently chairs the advisory board of ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn.
Professor Jan Carmeliet (*1961), presently Full Professor of Building Physics within the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, will retire on the finish of January 2027. Jan Carmeliet joined ETH Zurich in 2008. His analysis covers multiscale evaluation of porous supplies, constructing physics, the city microclimate and concrete vitality methods. His strategy hyperlinks materials behaviour at nano stage with efficiency at city stage. He constructed an essential analysis programme on modelling the city microclimate and has had a major affect on the nationwide analysis panorama within the area of constructing vitality. Jan Carmeliet has served on the board of the Energy Science Center of ETH Zurich and as a member of the SNSF Research Council and ETH Zurich Research Commission. He based the Master’s programme in Integrated Building Systems and inspired the formation of interdisciplinary groups and infrastructures that can proceed to have an effect on analysis nicely past his retirement.
Professor Jérôme Faist (*1962), presently Full Professor of Experimental Physics within the Department of Physics, is to retire on the finish of January 2027. His analysis is within the area of quantum and laser physics. Jérôme Faist joined ETH Zurich in 2006. One of his largest achievements was the primary experimental demonstration of a quantum cascade laser (QCL); QCL analysis was largely his basis. The excessive level of his analysis at ETH Zurich was the event of optical frequency combs primarily based on quantum cascade lasers and the research of vacuum fluctuations. Jérôme Faist holds 35 patents and has obtained two ERC Advanced Grants. As Head of the Institute for Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich, he contributed to tutorial self-administration; he additionally led the Department safely via the pandemic whereas serving as its Head. In addition, he has had a serious affect on the Department as a lecturer and mentor for quite a few college students and doctoral candidates.
Professor David Gugerli (*1961), presently Full Professor of History of Technology within the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, will retire on the finish of October 2026. David Gugerli advocates a cultural research strategy to the historical past of know-how and joined ETH Zurich in 1997. His work spans the political historical past of the physique, electrification, the cartography of nationwide house and the event of the technical universities. The latest focus of his work has been the historical past of computer-supported search procedures and databases, knowledge-based economics, and questions regarding computability and the position of computer systems. From 2005 to 2018, David Gugerli was a founding member of the Centre for the History of Knowledge, in addition to the primary spokesperson for the Conference of the Heads of Departments and, from 2009 to 2016, President of the Strategy Commission of ETH Zurich. In addition to being a profitable instructor, he has served as a member of the Research Commission, as each Head and Deputy Head of the Department and as Director and Deputy Director of the Institute of History.
Professor Johanna Jacobi (*1983), presently Assistant Professor of Agroecological Transitions within the Department of Environmental Systems Science, is leaving ETH Zurich on the finish of September 2026. Her analysis focuses on tropical areas and explores sustainability and socioecological resilience in agriculture and meals methods, agroecological matters, energy relations in meals methods and sensible examples from agroforestry. She was awarded an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship and has contributed to the ETH Zurich’s objective of growing peaceable scientific options for international issues. Johanna Jacobi is shifting to the University of Luxembourg as Professor of Global Food Security on the Luxembourg Centre for Social-Environmental Systems.
Professor Mariam Issoufou Mahamadou (*1979), presently Full Professor of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability within the Department of Architecture, will go away ETH Zurich on the finish of December 2026. Her design and analysis professorship with a decolonial and intersectional focus has challenged the Eurocentric assumptions ingrained within the historical past of structure, the preservation of historic monuments and the discourse on sustainability; it argues that native constructing cultures and embedded information from the Global South present essential classes on how structure can reply to the local weather disaster. Mariam Issoufou Mahamadou has made a serious contribution to repositioning the Department of Architecture internationally. She is leaving ETH Zurich to shift the main focus of her skilled actions and deepen her engagement with architectural follow, writing and the broader cultural debates sparked by her work.
Professor Ursula Renold (*1961), presently Full Professor of Building Systems within the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), is to retire on the finish of January 2027. She is an internationally recognised knowledgeable on the design, administration and reform of training methods and was Head of the Education Systems analysis space on the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF, now often called the KOF Institute) earlier than changing into a full professor at D-MTEC on the finish of 2019. The fundamental focus of her analysis is on worldwide comparative analysis into training methods, the dynamics of training methods, and the additional improvement of training coverage processes. Under her management, the Center on the Economics and Management of Education and Training Systems (CEMETS) grew right into a extremely sought-after model internationally. She has made a precious contribution to ETH Zurich as a dedicated lecturer, Deputy Head of Department and Head of the Doctoral Committee. Thanks to her contribution to the vocational coaching system and the colleges of utilized sciences in Switzerland, Ursula Reynold has boosted the popularity of ETH Zurich on this space.
Professor Federica Sallusto (*1961), presently Full Professor of Medical Immunology within the Department of Biology, is to retire on the finish of January 2027. She joined ETH Zurich in 2016 because the holder of a twin professorship with the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano. Federica Sallusto is a world-renowned scientist within the area of human immunology whose work has outlined how we perceive the differentiation, migration and immunological reminiscence of T cells. Her findings have influenced vaccine improvement and T-cell-based therapies. She has registered three patents and obtained quite a few honours and awards. Federica Sallusto has made a precious contribution to ETH Zurich as a lecturer and mentor for numerous doctoral and postdoctoral college students and has had a serious affect on the following era of immunologists.
Professor Christoph Schwab (*1962), presently Full Professor of Mathematics within the Department of Mathematics, will retire on the finish of December 2026. Christoph Schwab is an knowledgeable within the numerical evaluation of partial differential equations and boundary aspect strategies and has been at ETH Zurich since 1995. The fundamental focus of his analysis, which was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant, is on the mathematical evaluation of numerical strategies, particularly high-dimensional approximation, exponential convergence of hp-finite aspect strategies and Monte Carlo strategies. From 2002 to 2026, Christoph Schwab was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods, which he chaired from 2016 to 2025. At ETH Zurich, he not solely had a major affect on educating but in addition contributed to tutorial self-administration by serving for a few years as Head and Deputy Head of the Seminar for Applied Mathematics and as a member of the Research Commission.