\tDepartures\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor Gabriel Aeppli (*1956), currently Full Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics (dual professorship with EPFL), will retire at the end of November 2026. Gabriel Aeppli joined ETH Zurich in 2013 and is also the founding Head of the Photon Science Division at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), where he is Deputy Director. In addition to educating numerous students, his achievements include the scientific commissioning of the Swiss Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) and contributing substantially to the upgraded Swiss Light Source (SLS) 2.0, with power enhanced up to 10,000-fold and to the Park Innovaare with the new PSI clean room. His research successes include taking X-ray tomograms of integrated circuits at a record-breaking resolution. Gabriel Aeppli worked on the time-dependent structure of light pulses from free electron lasers, which led to the first X-ray frequency comb. These and similar findings underlie the new SwissFELplus project, which aims to generate X-rays with adjustable wavelengths. Gabriel Aeppli has been a member of the Swiss Science Council since 2016.<\/p>\n
Professor David Basin (*1961), currently Full Professor of Computer Science (Information Security) in the Department of Computer Science, is to retire at the end of January 2027. He joined ETH Zurich in 2002. His research in close cooperation with industry led to groundbreaking advances in the principles, methods and tools used for testing the security of IT systems. He founded several spin-offs and research initiatives in the technology sector and registered seven patents. Among other honours, David Basin was awarded an honorary doctorate by Chalmers University of Technology for his outstanding contributions to cybersecurity and the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography for developing the Tamarin Prover. He has held various positions at ETH Zurich, including as Head (and Deputy Head) of Department and as a member of the Research Commission and the Doctoral Commission; he also headed the Institute of Information Security for many years. He currently chairs the advisory board of ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor Jan Carmeliet (*1961), currently Full Professor of Building Physics in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, will retire at the end of January 2027. Jan Carmeliet joined ETH Zurich in 2008. His research covers multiscale analysis of porous materials, building physics, the urban microclimate and urban energy systems. His approach links material behaviour at nano level with performance at urban level. He built an important research programme on modelling the urban microclimate and has had a significant influence on the national research landscape in the field of building energy. 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 founded the Master\u2019s programme in Integrated Building Systems and encouraged the formation of interdisciplinary teams and infrastructures that will continue to have an impact on research well beyond his retirement.<\/p>\n
Professor J\u00e9r\u00f4me Faist (*1962), currently Full Professor of Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics, is to retire at the end of January 2027. His research is in the field of quantum and laser physics. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Faist joined ETH Zurich in 2006. One of his biggest achievements was the first experimental demonstration of a quantum cascade laser (QCL); QCL research was largely his foundation. The high point of his research at ETH Zurich was the development of optical frequency combs based on quantum cascade lasers and the study of vacuum fluctuations. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Faist holds 35 patents and has received two ERC Advanced Grants. As Head of the Institute for Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich, he contributed to academic self-administration; he also led the Department safely through the pandemic while serving as its Head. In addition, he has had a major impact on the Department as a lecturer and mentor for numerous students and doctoral candidates.<\/p>\n
Professor David Gugerli (*1961), currently Full Professor of History of Technology in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, will retire at the end of October 2026. David Gugerli advocates a cultural studies approach to the history of technology and joined ETH Zurich in 1997. His work spans the political history of the body, electrification, the cartography of national space and the development of the technical universities. The recent focus of his work has been the history of computer-supported search procedures and databases, knowledge-based economics, and questions concerning computability and the role of computers. From 2005 to 2018, David Gugerli was a founding member of the Centre for the History of Knowledge, as well as the first 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 successful teacher, he has served as a member of the Research Commission, as both Head and Deputy Head of the Department and as Director and Deputy Director of the Institute of History.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor Johanna Jacobi (*1983), currently Assistant Professor of Agroecological Transitions in the Department of Environmental Systems Science, is leaving ETH Zurich at the end of September 2026. Her research focuses on tropical regions and explores sustainability and socioecological resilience in agriculture and food systems, agroecological topics, power relations in food systems and practical examples from agroforestry. She was awarded an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship and has contributed to the ETH Zurich\u2019s goal of developing peaceful scientific solutions for global problems. Johanna Jacobi is moving to the University of Luxembourg as Professor of Global Food Security at the Luxembourg Centre for Social-Environmental Systems.<\/p>\n
Professor Mariam Issoufou Mahamadou (*1979), currently Full Professor of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability in the Department of Architecture, will leave ETH Zurich at the end of December 2026. Her design and research professorship with a decolonial and intersectional focus has challenged the Eurocentric assumptions ingrained in the history of architecture, the preservation of historical monuments and the discourse on sustainability; it argues that local building cultures and embedded knowledge from the Global South provide important lessons on how architecture can respond to the climate crisis. Mariam Issoufou Mahamadou has made a major contribution to repositioning the Department of Architecture internationally. She is leaving ETH Zurich to shift the focus of her professional activities and deepen her engagement with architectural practice, writing and the broader cultural debates sparked by her work.<\/p>\n
Professor Ursula Renold (*1961), currently Full Professor of Building Systems in the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), is to retire at the end of January 2027. She is an internationally recognised expert on the design, management and reform of education systems and was Head of the Education Systems research area at the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF, now known as the KOF Institute) before becoming a full professor at D-MTEC at the end of 2019. The main focus of her research is on international comparative research into education systems, the dynamics of education systems, and the further development of education policy processes. Under her leadership, the Center on the Economics and Management of Education and Training Systems (CEMETS) grew into a highly sought-after brand internationally. She has made a valuable contribution to ETH Zurich as a committed lecturer, Deputy Head of Department and Head of the Doctoral Committee. Thanks to her contribution to the vocational training system and the universities of applied sciences in Switzerland, Ursula Reynold has boosted the reputation of ETH Zurich in this area.<\/p>\n
Professor Federica Sallusto (*1961), currently Full Professor of Medical Immunology in the Department of Biology, is to retire at the end of January 2027. She joined ETH Zurich in 2016 as the holder of a dual professorship with the Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano. Federica Sallusto is a world-renowned scientist in the field of human immunology whose work has defined how we understand the differentiation, migration and immunological memory of T cells. Her findings have influenced vaccine development and T-cell-based therapies. She has registered three patents and received numerous honours and awards. Federica Sallusto has made a valuable contribution to ETH Zurich as a lecturer and mentor for countless doctoral and postdoctoral students and has had a major impact on the next generation of immunologists.<\/p>\n
Professor Christoph Schwab (*1962), currently Full Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, will retire at the end of December 2026. Christoph Schwab is an expert in the numerical analysis of partial differential equations and boundary element methods and has been at ETH Zurich since 1995. The main focus of his research, which was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant, is on the mathematical analysis of numerical methods, especially high-dimensional approximation, exponential convergence of hp-finite element methods and Monte Carlo methods. 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 only had a significant impact on teaching but also contributed to academic self-administration by serving for many years as Head and Deputy Head of the Seminar for Applied Mathematics and as a member of the Research Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departures\u00a0 Professor Gabriel Aeppli (*1956), currently Full Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics (dual professorship with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[9125,3385,12476,12475,3408,3407,3405,8255,8615,12474,5977,12473,3418,6419,5641,51],"class_list":["post-70307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-d-arch","tag-d-baug","tag-d-biol","tag-d-bsse","tag-d-chab","tag-d-eaps","tag-d-gess","tag-d-infk","tag-d-itet","tag-d-math","tag-d-mavt","tag-d-mtec","tag-d-phys","tag-d-usys","tag-press-release","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116618169315838887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}