Podcasts by ETH Podcast
For the past four years, we have featured conversations with experts on current research topics in the ETH podcast. At the moment the podcast is taking an indefinite break. Until we launch a new podcast format, 43 exciting episodes are available for you to listen to.
The alumni podcast "We Are ETH", a podcast series featuring stories from alumni and friends of ETH Zurich moved to its own channel: https://circle.ethz.ch/podcast/
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We have our own Channel! from 2023-01-17T13:48:19
Find us wherever you listen to your podcasts by searching for "We are ETH"
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Looking back from 2022-12-22T07:00
ETH Podcast is going on a creative break and will reappear with a new concept next year.
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George Szpiro from 2022-12-16T07:00
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.
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Diagnosing diseases with a puff of breath from 2022-11-25T07:00
Zurich Exhalomics – a team working on the future of diagnostics, where illnesses can be diagnosed using no more than a breath sample.
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Anette Freytag from 2022-11-18T07:00
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.
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Discover how landscapes sound from 2022-10-20T06:00
The creaking of the shimmering Morteratsch Glacier, the rumbling of ash-coloured dams, and the steady sloshing of water in grey-blue Zurich reservoirs...
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Felix Seidel from 2022-10-14T08:20:45
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.
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Gisbert Schneider from 2022-09-23T06:00
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.
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From Cubicle to Limelight from 2022-09-15T06:00
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?
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Faktencheck Energie: Folge 3 from 2022-07-14T04:00
Bis 2050 soll die Schweiz klimaneutral werden. Das heisst: Ausbau nachhaltiger Energieversorgung statt fossiler Energieträger und Kernenergie.
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Faktencheck Energie: Folge 4 from 2022-07-14T04:00
Diese Behauptung wird immer wieder als Gegenargument zu klimapolitischen Ambitionen genannt.
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Faktencheck Energie: Folge 1 from 2022-07-14T04:00
Teure Rohstoffpreise wegen des Ukrainekriegs und der steigende Energieverbrauch aufgrund neuer digitaler Technologien wie Blockchain schüren die Angst vor Strom-Engpässen oder gar flächendeckenden ...
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Faktencheck Energie: Folge 2 from 2022-07-14T04:00
Immer mehr Elektroautos flitzen durch unsere Strassen. Umweltfreundlicher sind die, klar! Klar?
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Margherita Fontana from 2022-06-17T06:00
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.
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World Food System Center from 2022-05-27T06:00
Before it reaches our plates, the food we eat usually has travelled a long way.
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Philippe Kahn from 2022-05-20T06:00
Philippe Kahn, a serial technology innovator, and entrepreneur, who studied mathematics at ETH Zurich, is credited with creating the first camera phone solution.
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Martin Dahinden from 2022-04-22T06:00
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.
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Stick to Science from 2022-04-07T06:00
Horizon Europe is the European Union’s multi-billion-euro research programme. Due to political differences, Switzerland is now largely excluded from this programme.
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Martin Bosshardt from 2022-03-18T07:00
“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.”
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Gender equality in Swiss research from 2022-03-08T07:00
On International Women’s Day, the ETH podcast has a close look at facts and figures regarding gender equality at ETH.
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Jennifer Giroux from 2022-02-11T07:00
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.
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Benefits of failing from 2022-02-04T07:00
Usually, failure is something shameful, or at least it used to be. Nowadays, people rather talk about how crucial failure is for success.
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Jeannine Pilloud from 2022-01-21T07:00
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.
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A home for ideas from 2022-01-07T07:00
ETH’s Student Project House is a dream come true for young inventors.
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Digital Einstein from 2021-12-03T07:00
The ETH is the alma mater of quite a few Nobel Prize Laureates, the most prominent of whom is probably Albert Einstein.
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The Dyatlov pass mystery from 2021-10-22T06:45:49
Over 60 years ago, a skiing expedition in Soviet Russia started as an adventure and ended in a tragedy.
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Skin matters from 2021-08-31T06:00
SKINTEGRITY.CH is a transdisciplinary consortium for the largest organ of humans, the skin.
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Science and Politics from 2021-08-17T06:15
Martin Ackermann steps down as head of the Swiss National Covid-19 science task force. Tanja Stadler succeeds him in this responsible position.
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The ambivalence of being a young Nobel Prize laureate from 2021-07-19T10:00
Together with his professor Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz received the Physics Nobel Prize for this discovery.
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One universe from 2021-06-21T11:35:19
While Domenico Giardini, Professor of Seismology and Geodynamics, already has his hands on Mars, Adrian Glauser, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, has to be patient.
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Reaching for the stars from 2021-05-14T06:00
For Claude Nicollier, the dream of flying to space came true four times. Judit Szulágyi - a professor in computational astrophysics at the ETH- has never left the earth's atmosphere so far.
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Uncertainty in Academia from 2021-04-22T10:00
Helga Nowotny is an internationally recognised researcher on Social Studies of Science. Eric Burns just finished his Ph.D. at ETH and is pursuing a career in Switzerland.
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Increasing uncertainty in order to innovate from 2021-03-23T07:15:15
Uncertainty is something that makes people uncomfortable. At the same time, it is the only chance for learning.
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Cybersecurity and ways to handle uncertainties from 2021-02-22T07:35
ETH senior lecturer Myriam Dunn Cavelty never imagined that cybersecurity would evolve from a niche subject to a big thing.
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Climate change in the light of uncertainty from 2021-01-22T08:55:31
The threat of Climate Change is similar to the Corona Pandemic.
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Studying in times of the pandemic from 2020-12-22T09:00
This past year has been strange and strenuous. Patience and endurance are what all of us need on many levels.
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CYBATHLON 2020 from 2020-11-03T19:00
Sometimes it only takes a few seconds to separate life into a before and an after.
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ETH4D tackles poverty from 2020-09-28T21:00
Poverty has many faces. The question of affordable nutrition, water, housing, and energy are just some factors poor people face in their everyday life.
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How Machine Learning can help in medicine from 2020-08-25T09:35:08
ETH computer scientists Julia Vogt and Fanny Yang work in the field of Machine Learning and Medicine.
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Can AI help tackle climate change? from 2020-05-20T08:04:24
Climate change hasn’t been hitting the headlines quite as much in recent months – but that’s not because the situation has improved.
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#COVID–19: Interdisciplinarity is key from 2020-05-05T06:15
The coronavirus pandemic forced ETH Zurich to suspend almost all its experimental research in mid-March.
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#COVID–19: To trace or not to trace from 2020-04-21T07:06:24
Various contact-tracing apps are currently being developed worldwide to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
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#COVID–19: Speed of spread from 2020-04-16T11:00
Tanja Stadler has been in the Swiss media quite a lot lately as she knows how to interpret data regarding the spread of the virus.
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#COVID–19: The challenge of daily data changes from 2020-04-14T11:22:05
The current situation presents an enormous challenge for economists like Jan-Egbert Sturm.
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#COVID–19: Singapore during the pandemic from 2020-04-09T06:55
Singapore is situated in Southeast Asia and has a strong connection to China. Nevertheless, the coronavirus epidemic in Singapore has been much weaker than in Europe so far.
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#COVID–19: Keep moving! from 2020-04-07T07:00
For most people, staying at home right now means a lot of sitting and staring at screens.
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#COVID–19: Home alone from 2020-04-04T07:00
Petra Schmid is currently working from home, where she is planning a new study on how feedback affects the motivation and focus of people working remotely.
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#COVID–19: Remote Research from 2020-04-02T06:21:40
Andreas Wallraff is currently running the Quantum Device Lab from home.
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#COVID–19: Try gargling! from 2020-03-31T07:25:27
Viola Vogel, Professor at the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, talks about how soap, ginger, rinsing our mouths, and gargling can make us more resistant to viruses.
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#COVID–19: United against the virus from 2020-03-27T08:37:20
In response to these exceptional times, the monthly ETH Podcast will appear as a series of short items dealing with various aspects of the novel form of coronavirus,
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Steering a car with thought alone from 2020-02-06T08:45
Samuel Kunz has quadriplegia and needs a wheelchair to get about. Right now he’s preparing to take part in the CYBATHLON 2020.
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Joe Paradiso and his passion for sound from 2020-01-22T08:10:17
He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso, Professor at the MIT Media Lab in Media Arts and Sciences.
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Two researchers - one family from 2019-12-16T15:09:23
Renana and Roi Poranne are both senior scientists at ETH Zurich: Renana in Chemistry, Roi, in Computer Sciences. But they are not only committed researchers, they are also parents.
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Quantum Engineering from 2019-11-10T20:57:59
As of this semester, it is possible to do a master’s degree in Quantum Engineering at ETH Zürich. What actually is Quantum Engineering?
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Pioneering work from 2019-10-08T07:18:24
Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zürich and one of the leading researchers in her field was awarded some of the most prestigious prizes for her pioneering work in the area of mu...
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How Talent Thrives from 2019-09-09T04:00
“How Talent Thrives” is a subject that university, as well as industry, is interested in.
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Artificial Intelligence from 2019-08-22T05:00
The pace of technological progress is rapid. Artificial intelligence and machine learning make us look at human intelligence in a new light.
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Insects on our plates from 2019-07-18T06:58:15
What do grasshoppers, crickets and mealworms taste like?
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Life on Mars from 2019-06-19T06:00
ETH researcher Grace Crain is hoping to develop an ecosystem that could provide food, drinking water and clean air to astronauts on a space station.
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Fair algorithms from 2019-05-23T06:00
Computer scientist Hoda Heidari and Elliott Ash, Professor for Law, Economics, and Data Science, talk about the huge digital footprint that we leave behind us on a daily basis. They also discuss ho...
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Small steps to peace from 2019-04-25T06:49:45
Many small, local steps may lead more effectively to peace than big dreams of a perfect state.
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#CRISPRbabies from 2019-02-28T07:44:21
Last November, news from China shook the research community. Scientist, He Jiankui claimed he had edited the genomes of twin girls with the CRISPR/Cas technology.
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New ETH podcast from 2018-11-29T17:22:32
On Thursday, 6 December 2018, we will start with our new podcast. The first four episodes deal with different aspects of entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. We'll get to know the students of the Swissl...
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