News and Media

(02.03.2020): Congratulations to Martha Vogel who was awarded the ETH medal for her PhD thesis!

(28.02.2020): Congratulations to Kathrin Wehrli for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "On the sensitivity of heat waves to physical drivers and climate change"!

(28.11.2019): Congratulations to Ryan Padron for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Water availability in a warming world Insights across scales from observations and climate models"!

(20.11.2019): Prof. Sonia Seneviratne on "highly cited researchers" list for the 6th year in a row!

(27.09.2019): Energy Science Center welcomes Prof. Sonia Seneviratne as new member (link)

(12.08.2019): external page IPCC Special report on Climate Change and Land approved: Dr Edouard Davin from LandClim group was a lead author on the report (U-SYS news)

(18.03.2019): Congratulations to Heewon Moon for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Precipitation and drought persistence in global climate models"!

(05.12.2018): Congratulations to Martha Vogel for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Temperature extremes in a changing climate – Processes, emergent constraints and impacts"!

(27.11.2018): Seven "highly cited researchers" from D-USYS

(08.10.2018): New IPCC Report on 1.5°C global warming approved. Prof. Sonia Seneviratne was a lead author of the report.

(05.10.2018): Congratulations to Vincent Humphrey who was awarded the ETH medal for his PhD thesis!

(01.09.2018): Congratulations to Jakob Zscheischler for receiving an external page SNF Ambizione grant to start a research group at the University of Bern!

(23.04.2018): Prof. Sonia Seneviratne nominated as coordinating lead author on the IPCC 6th assessment report

(08.02.2018): Congratulations to Clemens Schwingshackl, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

(04.10.2017): Congratulations to Vincent Humphrey, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

(30.07.2017): Land-climate dynamics group featured in Arte television documentary

(21.04.2017): Congratulations to Mathias Hauser, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

(17.01.2017): Congratulations to Wim Thiery for being part of the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe calls of 2017!

(16.9.2016): Congratulations to Quentin Lejeune, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

(26.8.2016): Congratulations to Nadine Nicolai-Shaw, who successfully defended her PhD thesis!

(09.12.2015): Congratulations to Jakob Zscheischler, who was awarded the external page Wladimir Peter Köppen Award for his excellent PhD thesis!

(07.12.2015): Congratulations to Stefanos Mystakidis, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

(27.04.2015): Congratulations to Peter Greve, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

ETH annual report (12/2014): Our research highlighted in 2014 ETH annual report

(09/2014): Congratulations to Peter Greve who was awarded an external page Outstanding Student Poster Award from the European Geosciences Union

(31.01.2014): Congratulations to Benoit Guillod, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

ETH (30.01.2014): Prof. Sonia Seneviratne is awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

GEWEX News (11/2013): external page GEWEX welcomes the new Co-Chairs of the GEWEX Scientific Steering Group (SSG)

(05.08.2013): Prof. Sonia Seneviratne receives the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union (external page AGU web site; external page EOS announcement)

(07.05.2013): Congratulations to Rene Orth, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

ETH annual report (12/2012): Our research cited in the 2012 ETH annual report

ETH Life (07.12.2012): Neue Professoren an der ETH Zürich

ETH Life (07.12.2012): New professors at the ETH Zurich appointed

(23.11.2012): Congratulations to Ruth Lorenz, who successfully defended her PhD thesis!

WCRP 4th reanalysis meeting (09.05.2012): external page Brigitte Mueller makes presentation as EGU young ambassador [external page EGU ambassadors]

(27.01.2012): Congratulations to Brigitte Mueller, who successfully defended her PhD thesis!

IPCC SREX Summary for Policymakers (18.11.2011): external page Release of IPCC SREX Summary for Policymakers; external page Core writing team; external page Video

(02.11.2011): Congratulations to Heidi Mittelbach, who successfully defended her PhD thesis!

(12.10.2011): Congratulations to Paulo Oliveira who successfully defended his PhD thesis!

(18.09.2009): Congratulations to Eric Jäger, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!