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The inaugural lecture of Prof. Athina Anastasaki is now available online.

Congratulations to Prof. Lucio Isa, this year’s winner of the Golden Owl at the D-MATL. Lucio Isa, head of the Soft Materials and Interfaces group, has been receiving outstanding student feedback for his teaching on the Master’s level since many years.

We are very proud to announce that Tobias Esswein, PhD student of the Materials Theory group, has been awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis for his excellent Master Thesis "Exploring Ferroelectric Quantum Criticality and Superconductivity in KTaO₃".

At this year’s Master’s degree graduation ceremony 26 graduates received their diploma. We congratulate all the graduates and wish them the best for their future career! In addition, the following four students were awarded with prizes for their outstanding achievements.

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have developed a micromachine that can perform different actions. First nanomagnets in the components of the microrobots are magnetically programmed and then the various movements are controlled by magnetic fields. Such machines, which are only a few tens of micrometres across, could be used, for example, in the human body to perform small operations.

We are very pleased with the news that the outstanding master thesis "Exploring Twin Boundaries and Superconductivity in WO₃" of Noé Mascello is being awarded with the ETH medal.