2024

Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, a senior researcher at ETH Zurich’s Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec), has secured an Ambizione fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Over the next four years, Nuñez-Jimenez will lead a team in developing a modelling framework capable of simulating policies for net-zero emission technologies from a new perspective.

Are stablecoins actually stable? Former MSc MTEC student Alexander Magnússon has been awarded a 2023 Student Award by the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation for his Master’s thesis, which explores the stability of stablecoins. His thesis presents a framework that can be used to analyse the issuance of stablecoins backed by risky collateral, offering valuable insights into their stability and potential in the evolving crypto market.

On Sunday 21 April, 34 members of the MTEC Department braved inclement conditions to join some 16,000 other amateur and professional runners competing in the Zurich Marathon, Half-Marathon, and 10K Race. Despite the adverse conditions, the D-MTEC team put in inspiring performances.

On 13 March 2024, feMTEC, Women in Data Science Zurich (WiDS), and Women Techmakers Zurich hosted a panel discussion titled “Impact the Future – Shaping the Next Tech Revolution” in honour of International Women’s Day.

From 29 February to 2 March, the Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC 2024) celebrated its 25th anniversary, hosted at ETH Zurich.

Amidst organisational changes, new programme leaders will join the department staff: Carrie Joda as Coordinator of Studies for the MSc MTEC, Evelina Kramer as MAS MTEC Programme Manager, and Ana Procópio Schön will join the team while keeping her role in the emba X programme.

On 1 March 2024, Professor Florian von Wangenheim takes over as Academic Co-Director of the emba X programme. He succeeds Professor Stefano Brusoni, who will remain involved as founder, advisor and lecturer