Ulrich Weidmann, Vice President for Infrastructure and Sustainability (VPIN), will step down from the Executive Board at the end of March 2027. He will retire in mid-2028 and wishes to ensure a smooth transition into his post-work life. He plans to give the new ETH President the chance to make their first personnel decision in the search for his successor.
Professor David Basin and lecturer Ralf Sasse from the Department of Computer Science, together with Professors Cas Cremers and Jannik Dreier, have been honored with the Levchin Prize at the Real World Cryptography Conference. They received the award for developing Tamarin, a leading system for the formal verification of cryptographic protocols.
Six months into her role as Vice President for Research, Annette Oxenius is now fully at home with the fast-paced decision-making inherent to her position. In this interview, she discusses the opportunities and risks of ETH research, the proposed initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10 million, new ETH Centres, animal testing and integrity.