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Cara Magnabosco and her team study subsurface environments at BedrettoLab, focusing on simple life-forms like bacteria surviving by "breathing rocks". They explore conditions for life emergence and survival, discovering rare microorganisms and conducting experiments to understand their lifestyle.

Anna Mittelholz and Simon Stähler from the Department of Earth Sciences, together with Hendrik Kolvenbach from D-MAVT, are leading an international team that is proposing a cost-effective method for exploring lava tubes on the Moon.

ETH earth scientists have developed a new method for determining the age of cobalt mineralisation.

Madeleine Santos and Ali Ahmed Shaikhsulaiman were honoured with the ETH-Medal for their outstanding Master's theses. The prizes were awarded at this year's Master's degree graduation ceremony. Congratulations! 

The Master's Graduation Ceremony of the Department of Earth Sciences took place on Friday, 1 December 2023. Congratulations to our successful graduates!

André Blanchard will soon have been working at ETH Zurich for 48 years – longer than anyone else. What has kept him here all these years?

Yuhan Wang – Master's student in the Seismology and Wave Physics group – received an ESOP scholarship.

Supported by an ETH scholarship, Janine Schmitter delves deep into questions about our Earth and its oceans in her Master‘s degree in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.

The rockslide that occured during the night from 15 to 16 June 2023 above the village of Brienz was one of the largest in the Swiss Alps in recent years, displacing more than 1 million cubic meters of material.