Joël Mesot is the new ETH President. (Photograph: ETH Zurich)
The year 2019 has certainly been a busy one at ETH. A new president took office and the second Sci-Tech Oscar was awarded, along with other major prizes, but there were also plenty of inventions and topics for discussion. The new year also ushered in a new era at ETH. The former director of PSI, Joël Mesot, took over the reins of the Executive Board as the new President of ETH Zurich with a sense of "great elation, drive and enthusiasm for this venerable institution". As a long-serving ETH physics professor, he knows ETH Zurich inside out. Good news from the spin-offs where the year also began on a positive note. An unprecedented 27 new companies were founded in 2018.
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