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Since January 2013, Tapio Schneider is professor of climate dynamics at the Department of Earth Sciences. The 41-year-old once contemplated becoming a journalist.

On Wednesday, 5 February a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about reference management using Mendeley.

Going from Ethopia to Singapore is a 180-degree turn. Marta Heisel-Wisniewska shares her rich multicultural experiences in an insightful column.

How should new students get to know the ETH? Is one welcome event enough? Not at all, thinks columnist Julia Wysling and explains why.

The Forschung für Leben [Research for Life] association is looking for researchers who are willing to present their work to a school class in German or English at the Swiss Life Sciences 2014 festival. Registration by 31.01.2014 using the form. If you have any questions about the festival, please contact: Astrid Kugler, tel.: 044 365 30 93/97.

Since 12 January the platform Web of Science has been showing off its new user interface and optimised search engine.

The “white fever” exists for more than 100 years. Ulrike Kastrup explains in her first column, where it comes from and how contagious it is.

Martin Mächler has worked at the Seminar for Statistics for 30 years. During this time, he has conducted pioneering work: Mächler is the co-inventor of the R statistics programming language.

In the coming months four authors will write about what moves and inspires them – from satellite launches to life on campus in Singapore. Meet the new columnists here.