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ETH Zurich ranks among the world’s leading universities

Times Higher Education announces its 2027 World University Rankings. ETH Zurich remains among the world’s leading research universities in an increasingly competitive academic environment. (Image: Alessandro Della Bella / ETH Zurich).

LOOP funding for Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik

Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik is leading a major new research consortium in Zurich that has been awarded a prestigious LOOP grant. Scheduled to start in December 2026, its ambitious goal is to bring a revolutionary new brain-treatment technology out of the lab and into the clinic.

Valentina Boeva promoted to Associate Professor

Valentina Boeva, head of the Computational Cancer Genomics Group, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Computational Genomics at ETH Zurich. She has also been confirmed as the new Deputy Study Director at the Department of Computer Science. Congratulations on your promotion, Valentina! (Image: Kilian Kessler / ETH Zurich).

Robotic help in high-risk twin pregnancies

When rigid instruments reach their limits, magnetic fields provide welcome assistance: researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a robotic platform designed to make procedures for complications in twin pregnancies safer, more manageable and more precise. The work involves the The Medical Robotics Lab (MeRo Lab), headed by Prof. Quentin Boehler. (Graphic created with BioRender.com: ETH Zurich).

Yao Feng honoured with the ECVA PhD Award 2026

Two former doctoral students at ETH Zurich, Paul-Edouard Sarlin and CLS alumna Yao Feng, have won both of this year’s ECVA PhD Awards in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the field of visual computing. (Image: Paul-Edouard Sarlin and Yao Feng, edited by D-INFK).

Apply now: CLS PhD positions starting in 2027

Apply to do your Ph.D. in our research center between ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the Max Planck Society, primarily the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.

PhD Alumni Event Hosted by ELLIS Unit Tübingen

The first ELLIS PhD Alumni event took place in Tübingen on 30 August 2026, co-organised and hosted by the ELLIS Unit Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. The event was held jointly with the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS) programme, reflecting the ongoing exchange between the CLS and ELLIS communities, and brought together around 40 attendees.

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ERC Starting Grant for Professor Lars Lindemann

Lars Lindemann has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for his research project “SPAROTICS”. The Professor of Algorithmic Systems Theory at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) is investigating the robustness of autonomous control systems. Image: Kilian Kessler / ETH Zürich.

ERC Starting Grant for Ryan Cotterell

Professor Ryan Cotterell from the Department of Computer Science has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate how large AI language models learn. He aims to uncover when these models can learn general rules and apply them to new cases and when they merely rely on statistical patterns from their training data. Ryan Cotterell is one of six ETH researchers to receive an ERC Starting Grant. (Image: Ryan Cotterell, edited by D-INFK).