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Meet Yilin Huang, a recent graduate of the STP Master’s program. She began her studies in autumn 2021, minoring in Resources and Environment. Before beginning her Master’s, she completed a bachelor’s degree in materials engineering from the University of Toronto, in Canada. In this interview, Yilin shares her experience during an internship at the United Nations, where she worked with the Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA).

Check out Dr Jan Freihardt's short documentary that traces the story behind a research project on climate migration in Bangladesh.

Learn more about an STP MSc Alumna's publishing experience from start to finish!

Samira Amos is an outdoors enthusiast who enjoys participating in climate and feminist activisim, and who works in the agroecology sector in Switzerland. She attended the STP Master‘s program from 2020 to 2023 with a minor in Environment and Resources. She previously studied Environmental Science at ETH focusing on coupled human-environment systems, completed an internship in Tanzania on agroecology, and also worked at Agroecology Works! during her studies.

Meet Maximillian Forberg, a current STP MSc student minoring in Energy and Mobility who started in Autumn 2023. He previously completed his Bachelor of Physics at EPFL, as well as a Master of Physics at ETH. He will be continuing his studies this Autumn as a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden where he will be doing research on carbon footprints of household consumption in Sweden/doing research in ecological economics!

Congratulations to STP Student Noah Kim and team CyBerg for their victory in this year's Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge 2024. Their unwavering commitment and dedication over the past 8 weeks have undoubtedly led to this well-deserved success!

We are thrilled to congratulate Marion Meyers, a 2023 ISTP MSc graduate, for being selected as the winner of the 2024 GAIA Masters Student Paper Award for her thesis on machine learning and degrowth.

Meet Andreas Felderer, a recent graduate of the STP MSc program. He began his studies in the Autumn 2020, minoring in Data and Computer Science. Before beginning his Master’s, he completed a bachelor’s degree in engineering science from the Technical University of Munich. He previously attended an add-on study program in technology management and did an internship with Munich Re in the R&D department focusing on natural language processing.

Join us as we explore Yilin Huang's master's thesis journey, where her passion for technology, environment, and policymaking converge. To understand how community participation and policy decisions interact in a real-world environment, Yilin’s thesis focuses on landscape decision-making in rural Laos, where she spent two months during the summer of 2023.

Congratulations to the 2023 STP graduates! We look forward to seeing the journeys and achievements your future holds.

Meet Milena Bojovic, an STP MSc Student with a minor in urbanization and planning. After earning her bachelor's degree in architecture at ETH, she realized her desire to broaden her knowledge across multiple disciplines, including economics and statistics. In this interview, Milena shares her experience during an internship at Wüest Partner, where she served as a real estate consultant.

We are thrilled to announce the official commencement of the semester. It is great to see the fresh faces of the Science, Technology, and Policy Master program.

Discover Yash Dubey's journey from the corporate sector to academia as he explores the intersection of policy and technology in his STP Master's studies.

Embarking on an internship during your master's studies can be a transformative experience that can help shape the path to a successful career. Najmeh Karimian-Marnani, an STP student, shares her reflections on her time at Roche Diagnostics, revealing the impact it had on her personal and professional growth. She highlights the skills she acquired and the challenges she faced.

As part of her Master's studies at the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, Samira Amos completed an internship in Tanzania, where she participated in a project called "Research and Advocacy for Agroecology" with the aim to improve sustainable rural livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Tanzania.

«Is it enough for scientists to simply deliver their findings to politicians and leave it to them to implement the results?» – Science, Technology and Policy graduate Jan Freihardt talks in an interview with ETH-​Alumni about his PhD project in Bangladesh, his experience while studying in Zurich and the Wissenschaf(f)t Zukünfte association.

Join our online info event on February 25, 2021, at 5pm and learn more about our interdisciplinary Master's programme at the intersection between technology, society and policy at the ISTP!