2017

We are proud to announce that Dr. Amir Hosein Salmanpour, member of the Structural Masonry Group of the Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK), has been granted the “Early Postdoc.Mobility” grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

The winners of the student competition solved a fictional criminal case using the optical 3D scanner ATOS from GOM. They have the chance to present their results at the GOM 3D Metrology Conference 2017.

The «14th International Conference on Location Based Services» (LBS 2018) will take place in Zurich on 15-17 January 2018.

Chinese Central TV introduces ETH Zurich as one of the world top research universities to the Chinese audience and highlights the transfer of research into practice at ETH.

THINK Earth! is an exhibition on «Building with clay today» and will be held on October 30th. 2017 - 6th November 2017 in the main building of ETH Zurich. The event is organized by the Professorship for Sustainable Construction and IG Clay.

«Meet & Share Your Research» − a half-day colloquium by Association of Scientific Staff at D-BAUG (ASB).   

Since antiquity, marble has stood for power and elevated status. Based on the Feliciani Collection, a repository of ancient Roman coloured marbles in possession of ETH Zurich, the latest story on Explora traces how marble and other decorative types of stone were deployed in different architectural epochs.

We are proud that two atlases, developed at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation (IKG), have won several prizes at the "International Cartographic Conference" in Washington.

Daniel M. Hall (*1985), currently a doctoral student at Stanford University, California, USA, starts as Assistant Professor of Innovative and Industrial Construction.

We are proud to announce that the paper entitled «Hybrid Simulation with Dynamic Substructuring of Masonry Structures: A Numerical Study» by Giuseppe Abbiati, Gaetano Miraglia, Nebojsa Mojsilović and Bozidar Stojadinović received the «R. G. Drysdale Award: The best paper on masonry research or education» at the 13th Canadian Masonry Symposium (Halifax, June 4-7, 2017, Canada).