ETH Zurich is a public research university in Zürich,Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss federal government in 1854,it was modeled on the École polytechnique in Paris,with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists;the school focuses primarily on science,technology,engineering,and mathematics,although its 16 departments span a variety of disciplines and subjects.
Shell Eco-marathon is a world-wide energy efficiency competition sponsored by Shell. Participants build automotive vehicles to achieve the highest possible fuel efficiency. There are two vehicle classes within Shell Eco-marathon:Prototype and UrbanConcept. There are three energy categories within Shell Eco-marathon:battery-electric,hydrogen fuel cell,and internal combustion engine. Prizes are awarded separately for each vehicle class and energy category. The pinnacle of the competition is the Shell Eco-marathon Drivers' World Championship,where the most energy-efficient UrbanConcept vehicles compete in a race with a limited amount of energy.
The 2000-watt society is an environmental vision,first introduced in 1998 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich,which pictures the average First World citizen reducing their overall average primary energy usage rate to no more than 2,000 watts by the year 2050,without lowering their standard of living.
Konrad Osterwalder is a Swiss mathematician and physicist,former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations,former Rector of the United Nations University (UNU),and Rector Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is known for the Osterwalder–Schrader theorem.
The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary Swiss research institute for applied materials sciences and technology. As part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain,it is an institution of the Swiss federation. For most of the period since its foundation in 1880,it concentrated on classical materials testing. Since the late 1980s it has developed into a modern research and development institute.
The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) is part of the ETH Zurich,Switzerland. It replaced the existing Institute of Robotics,of the ETH Zurich in October 2002,when Prof. Bradley J. Nelson moved from the University of Minnesota,United States,to ETH Zurich and succeeded the Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schweitzer.
The Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is a national center for research,doctoral training,knowledge exchange,and continuing education in the fields of banking and finance. Created in 2006 as a public–private partnership,SFI is a common initiative of the Swiss finance industry,six leading Swiss universities,and the Swiss Confederation.
Martin Aeschlimann is a Swiss physicist and professor in the physics department of the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2008 he is the spokesman of the State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS).
Wolfgang Kröger has been full professor of Safety Technology at the ETH Zurich since 1990 and director of the Laboratory of Safety Analysis simultaneously. Before being elected Founding Rector of International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) in 2003,he headed research in nuclear energy and safety at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). After his retirement early 2011 he became the Executive Director of the newly established ETH Risk Center. He has both Swiss and German citizenship and lives in Kilchberg/Zürich. His seminal work lies in the general area of reliability,risk and vulnerability analysis of large-scale technical systems like nuclear power plants of different types and complex engineered networks like power supply systems,the latter coupled to other critical infrastructure and controlled by cyber-physical systems. He is known for his continuing efforts to advance related frameworks,methodology,and tools,to communicate results including uncertainties as well as for his successful endeavor in stimulating trans-disciplinary and trans-sectional cooperation to improve governance of emerging systemic risks. His contributions to shape and operationalize the concept of sustainability and - more recently - the concept of resilience are highly valued. Furthermore,he is in engaged in the evaluation of smart energy systems and future technologies,including new ways of exploiting nuclear energy,and cooperative automated vehicles as a cornerstone of future mobility concepts.
Dame Sarah Marcella Springman is a British-Swiss triathlete,civil engineer,and academic. She was educated in England and spent much of her career in Switzerland. She is a former rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and currently Principal of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford.
Roland Siegwart,is director of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) in Switzerland,of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich and a known robotics expert.
Javier Pérez-Ramírez is a Professor of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering at ETH Zurich.
Claes Göran Andersson,is a Swedish academic. He was a full Professor of Power Systems in the Department of Information Technology,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,Switzerland,in 2010–2016 and is now emeritus. He is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was also elected as an International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to the development of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology and methods of power system voltage stability analysis.
The ABB Research Award in Honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg is named after Dr. Hubertus von Gruenberg,who was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the technology company ABB from 2007 to 2015.
Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann is a Swiss electrical engineer and an associate professor and Principal Investigator of the Power Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich within the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Hug studies the control and optimization of electrical power systems with a focus on sustainable energy.
Joël François Mesot is a Swiss physicist and academic. He is currently the President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,also known as ETH Zurich.
Silke Langenberg is a German-Swiss heritage scientist and architect. She is a full professor of construction heritage and preservation in the department of architecture at ETH Zurich.
Niels Kuster is a Swiss electrical engineer and Professor. The focus of his research is on the electromagnetic near field,basics for assessing/using the interaction of electromagnetic fields with organisms,and physiological simulations as part of biophysics.
Anton Gunzinger is a Swiss electrical engineer and entrepreneur. He was a developer of high performance computers.
