George Szpiro is an Israeli-Swiss applied mathematician and journalist who made a name for himself as the author of popular mathematical essays and books.

Diagnosing diseases with a puff of breath

Nov 25th, 2022 18m 38s

Zurich Exhalomics – a team working on the future of diagnostics, where illnesses can be diagnosed using no more than a breath sample.

Anette Freytag

Nov 18th, 2022 23m 40s

Anette Freytag, a Landscape Historian currently at Rutgers University and formerly with ETH Zurich, explains why landscape architecture is not only a discipline, but an attitude and a way of life.

Discover how landscapes sound

Oct 20th, 2022 20m 50s

The creaking of the shimmering Morteratsch Glacier, the rumbling of ash-coloured dams, and the steady sloshing of water in grey-blue Zurich reservoirs...

Felix Seidel

Oct 14th, 2022 21m 34s

Felix Seidel is a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Caltech. He shares with us how ETH Zurich influenced him, and continues to be important for him today.

Gisbert Schneider

Sep 23rd, 2022 21m 57s

Gisbert Schneider – winner of the Ernst Schering Price 2022 – worked in various places before his professional path led him to ETH, where he now heads the Singapore-ETH Centre.

From Cubicle to Limelight

Sep 15th, 2022 24m 49s

Scientists often are either in the lab or at their desks - researching, thinking, writing, reading, and analysing discoveries. What happens if their expertise aligns with current affairs in the media?

Faktencheck Energie: Folge 2

Jul 14th, 2022 21m 26s

Immer mehr Elektroautos flitzen durch unsere Strassen. Umweltfreundlicher sind die, klar! Klar?

Faktencheck Energie: Folge 4

Jul 14th, 2022 16m 29s

Diese Behauptung wird immer wieder als Gegenargument zu klimapolitischen Ambitionen genannt.

Faktencheck Energie: Folge 1

Jul 14th, 2022 14m 6s

Teure Rohstoffpreise wegen des Ukrainekriegs und der steigende Energieverbrauch aufgrund neuer digitaler Technologien wie Blockchain schüren die Angst vor Strom-Engpässen oder gar flächendeckenden Ausfällen.

Faktencheck Energie: Folge 3

Jul 14th, 2022 15m 51s

Bis 2050 soll die Schweiz klimaneutral werden. Das heisst: Ausbau nachhaltiger Energieversorgung statt fossiler Energieträger und Kernenergie.

Margherita Fontana

Jun 17th, 2022 24m 4s

It was when Margherita Fontana left ETH Zurich that she realized it had given her a unique value proposition, which was solid baggage to take with her to the corporate world.

World Food System Center

May 27th, 2022 26m 7s

Before it reaches our plates, the food we eat usually has travelled a long way.

Philippe Kahn

May 20th, 2022 23m 42s

Philippe Kahn, a serial technology innovator, and entrepreneur, who studied mathematics at ETH Zurich, is credited with creating the first camera phone solution.

Martin Dahinden

Apr 22nd, 2022 22m 56s

Switzerland's former ambassador to the US Martin Dahinden made many exciting encounters during his diplomatic career, and ETH Zurich played a key role throughout.

Stick to Science

Apr 7th, 2022 23m 11s

Horizon Europe is the European Union’s multi-billion-euro research programme. Due to political differences, Switzerland is now largely excluded from this programme.

Martin Bosshardt

Mar 18th, 2022 22m 23s

“If more people knew about engineering, they would find their passion in it, because you can really do a lot… I mean, you can change the world.”

Gender equality in Swiss research

Mar 8th, 2022 19m

On International Women’s Day, the ETH podcast has a close look at facts and figures regarding gender equality at ETH.

Jennifer Giroux

Feb 11th, 2022 22m 33s

Jennifer’s story is one of coming full circle. Originally from Detroit and having recently moved back, Jennifer explains how her serendipitous path and global living experiences built on each other.

Benefits of failing

Feb 4th, 2022 19m 2s

Usually, failure is something shameful, or at least it used to be. Nowadays, people rather talk about how crucial failure is for success.

Jeannine Pilloud

Jan 21st, 2022 22m 25s

ETH Zurich was not Jeannine's first choice for a place of study, but she made the switch because she was looking for more opportunities to apply her creative side.