Günther Dissertori: a South Tyrolean at the ETH Zurich
New Rector for the prestigious ETH in place of Sarah Springman, while Professors Thomas J. Schmidt and Mike Seidel will integrate the leadership of PSI
At its May 19-20 meeting, the ETH Council addressed various personnel issues.
It appointed Professor Günther Dissertori as the new Rector of ETH Zurich, Professors Thomas J. Schmidt and Mike Seidel as members of the leadership of the Paul Scherrer Institute, and Cornelia Ritz Bossicard as the new Chair of the Audit Committee of the ETH Board.
The ETH Board has begun the preparatory phase for the election of an EMPA director or director.
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New rectorship at the request of President Joël Mesot
At the request of the President of ETH Zurich, Professor Joël Mesot, the ETH Board has appointed Professor Günther Dissertori as the new Rector of ETH Zurich.
Dissertori takes over from Professor Sarah Springman, who will retire on January 31, 2022, due to age reasons.
As Rector and Vice-President, Professor Günther Dissertori will be responsible for educational matters within the management of the prestigious ETH Zurich.
Professor Günther Dissertori (born in Merano in South Tyrol on November 24, 1969, he is an Italian citizen) has been a professor and assistant professor at ETH Zurich since 2001 and in June 2007 he was appointed full professor at the Institute for Particle Physics.
He is distinguished for his outstanding teaching commitment and has been awarded four “Goldene Eule”, a prize given each year by the VSETH student association for teaching excellence.
Günther Dissertori wird im Februar 2022 Rektor der ETH Zürich, heute wurde er vom ETH-Rat offiziell gewählt. Herzliche Gratulation!
Erfahren Sie mehr über ihn in diesem Porträt: https://t.co/Zli5OYVnCg— ETH Zürich (@ETH) May 21, 2021
In 2013 he also won the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching at the ETH Zurich. Günther Dissertori has solid knowledge in the area of curriculum development and revision.
His numerous awards and extensive teaching experience are excellent qualifications for his appointment as rector and vice president for teaching at ETH Zurich.
Günther Dissertori’s research activity focuses on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN.
He has played important coordinating roles in the CMS collaboration between more than 4000 researchers of various scientific orientations from 40 countries.
Among other things, his group made a key contribution to the experimental demonstration of the Higgs boson, for whose discovery François Englert and Peter Higgs received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
Professor Günther Dissertori will take office on February 1, 2022.
The 2021-2024 strategic goals of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.
Two new members of the Executive Board of the Paul Scherrer Institute
At the request of Christian Rüegg, Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute, the ETH Board also appointed Professors Thomas J. Schmidt and Mike Seidel as members of the PSI Executive Board.
Professor Thomas J. Schmidt is a renowned expert in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. At PSI, he leads the Energy and Environment research area.
He works at the Paul Scherrer Institute and has been concurrently appointed Professor of Electrochemistry at ETH Zurich since 2011.
Professor Mike Seidel is a respected expert with an excellent network of international relationships in the field of accelerator technologies.
In 2018, he took over as interim director of the specialist area of large research facilities at PSI. In 2020 he became the permanent director and at the same time was appointed professor and of accelerator physics at EPFL.
On the upswing at the two Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich.
A new Code of Scientific Integrity born of “eight hands
The ETH Board welcomes the new Code of Scientific Integrity developed under the auspices of the Academies of Sciences in collaboration with swissuniversities, the SNSF, and Innosuisse.
The Code of Scientific Integrity will be widely disseminated among those working in the ETH Domain. The Council and the institutions of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology will jointly adopt the principles of the code for the ETH Domain, if this has not yet happened.
Innovation Park East in the Swiss national circuit
A new chair of EMPA’s audit committee.
The ETH Board has appointed Cornelia Ritz Bossicard as the new chair of its audit committee.
Cornelia Ritz Bossicard is a compliance expert and financial advisor and joined the ETH Board in 2021 to replace Beth Krasna, who left the position for age reasons.
Gian-Luca Bona, director of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, who has served since 2009, was recently re-elected by the Federal Council for an additional short term until he reaches the age limit of 65, i.e., until the end of May 2022.
The position of director or director will be the subject of an open competition.
As is customary in such election preparations by the Federal Council, a special commission will be appointed.
The national and international competition is scheduled for the summer of 2021.
2.6 billion in value from the Zurich Innovation Park
