“ETH+” is taking shape
Two Professors, members of our Institute, Isabel Günther & Stefan Bechtold will get funding for their projects in the first round of the ETH+ initiative. Congratulations!
The Executive Board launched an ETH-wide tender based on the conviction that the ETH community itself – with its enormous breadth of expertise – best knows in which areas the greatest potential lies. In total, 68 idea sketches were submitted by May 2018, involving all 16 academic departments. Administrative units, the Association of Students (VSETH) and the Academic Association of Scientific Staff (AVETH) also submitted proposals.
“ETH+ has developed an unbelievably positive dynamic. Employees have joined forces beyond subject boundaries and generated outstanding ideas. This shows the enormous potential that ETH has to offer,” said Guzzella, paying tribute to the process at today’s town hall meeting. Uwe Sauer, Professor of Systems Biology and President of the ETH Research Commission, explained on behalf of the jury how they conducted their evaluation: from the 68 suggestions, the 10 that best fulfilled the criteria of originality, interdisciplinarity and complementary interfaces were invited to present a full proposal in August. On the recommendation of the jury, the Executive Board has now approved the following nine for implementation (for details of each initiative see the ETH+ website):
- Security and Privacy in the Digital Society, Lead: Professor David Basin, D-INFK
- Future Learning Initiative, Lead: Professor Manu Kapur, D-GESS
- SynMatLab: Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Synthesis, Lead: Professor Maksym Kovalenko, D-CHAB
- ETHeart: New Therapies for Cardiovascular Diseases, Lead: Professor Edoardo Mazza, D-MAVT
- Professorship for Robotics Materials, Lead: Professor Ralph Spolenak, D-MATL
- RobotX: Centre for Intelligent Machines, Lead: Professor Marco Hutter, D-MAVT
- ETH Centre for the Fundamentals of Data Science, Lead: Peter Bühlmann, D-MATH